Milestones shouldn't feel this weird

[talandra]

So, shortly (ie., early in October) I will be hitting one of those milestone birthdays. You know the one, when they start teasing you about life going downhill, or starting... yeah, starting what? etc

Comments

[tamidon]

tattoo time?

[quezz]

Second! Or bobsledding.

Erm, maybe tattooing is better, unless you have a religious concern over it. Bobsledding may be less loaded.

[talandra]

I don't think I m up to the bobsledding experience.

As for tats... well, I have three already and didn't really plan to have more... and frankly, that's one of the ways I marked my divorce. I know terribly trite... but very tribal :)

Though I have been considering turning my hair into something really funky... maybe an odd colour? Dunno yet.

[jss1113]

First, happy (pre)birthday! That said, I don't have any great ideas for you. But do you want to play it (you'll forgive the expression) straight? Upbeat? Death metaphor? Romantic? Surreal? Narf?

[talandra]

Not sure... I guess I am feeling a little rebellious... like wanting to declare myself still "not old" but I also don't want to relive my childhood... I have no need to pretend, for example, that I am a teenager again.

Surreal sounds interesting...

[jss1113]

Okay, so first you shrinkwrap then baby-oil everything in the living room, then you fill the bathtub with brightly-colored machine parts....

Seriously, though, you could make a cake shaped like your favorite Escher print, or drink some 40-year-old wine, or have a meal with other 40-yr aged ingredients, like 40-yr-old port or aged-40-yrs balsamic vinegar. Go to some performance art. Hell, participate in some, like the annual Mass Ave zombie marches. Patronize establishments that are 40 years old, or go see/hear works by a 40-year-old artist.

Some other suggestions I received when I asked friends (and I use the term loosely) were to "Do what I did - ditch the spouse and move across the country" (I somehow don't see this one happening) or to "Go to the Grand Canyon, stand on the glass ledge, and look down. (They also suggested skydiving and bungee jumping, as others here did.)

[shadowflyer]

I believe it's customary, as quezz obliquely pointed out, to do something you've never done before. (If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is probably not for you.)

[talandra]

no jumping out of perfectly good airplanes, no throwing myself down snow covered mountains... just not my style. And as I said, not ready for the bobsledding experience.

Probably up for something a little less visceral. :)

hrm

[demonpup]

a trip to San Francisco would be loverly :)

Re: hrm

[talandra]

Wish we could... w'ell put it on the to-do-rsn-list.

[moonpuppy61]

Bungy-jumping is right out.

So do something trite.. like take up knitting.

Uh, walk a Corn Maze, you can do that with a group of celebrating friends

gosh, I don't have major clue about this...

[talandra]

Hmmm... corn maze, terribly seasonal... might even be trendy... hmmm... must think on it.

As for yarn crafts, I pretty much leave that the the way-more-talented-than-me wife. :)

Something group-ish might be fun... must contemplate.