I am getting tired earlier lately. At first I thought it was due to the time change and that my body was rebelling in its own, albeit ineffectual, way. Then I thought… maybe I am getting old.

Lately I have been noticing that more and more television shows are not really appropriate for young children. There is a show on Fox called Quintuplets that seems to have a recurring theme of 15 year old sexual angst. Granted, most 15 year olds are in a state of perpetual sexual angst. We just don’t need it to be sexualized. On television. In very skimpy clothes. Sometimes even less than that. Then I stopped and thought about what I had been thinking (yeah, figure that one out)… and I thought (still with me)… maybe I am getting old.

I had to see the doctor the other day because I thought I had a hernia. I was thinking the worst. And I was convinced hernias were only had by old people. Turns out lots of people get hernias. And not all them are old (the people, not the hernias. though I guess you could have an old hernia?!). Also turns out that I don’t have a hernia. Apparently I irritated some nerve in my lower back that is trying to bring other parts into the deal (I always knew that back was a troublemaker). So how might I have done that to my back? By lifting a dock section out of the water last weekend in a manner that I had done many times before. Difference was… this time my body rebelled in a very effective way! … maybe I am getting old.

I just sent an email to a friend I have known since about the 5th grade. We had been reminiscing (electronically, of course) about the “old days” and how we are all grown up with families and careers. And I thought… hell… everyone is getting old.

My 34th birthday is coming up pretty soon. 34 isn’t exactly a mile-marking birthday… it doesn’t really deserve a surprise birthday party… it’s more of a duck-and-dash kinda birthday. You just want it over with so you can pretend like it didn’t happen. Maybe that is why I have been wondering about this whole age thing lately…. or… maybe I am just getting old and that’s what old people do. They obsess about getting old. I have to go now though. Quintuplets is on.