Happy Birthday to Me!
For the past several years, I’ve had to compute my age by subtracting three years from Justin’s (35). This cheat is not useful between our birthdays of December 28th and January 18th, however, when the age difference is temporarily two years.
It seems my “brain age” is hovering at around 28 years, whereas my chronological age is of course merrily marching forward. I actually spent the bulk of this year thinking I was doing well at syncing the two ages, only to discover I’d tacked on two additional years to my age, often reporting it as 34! Thankfully, I don’t forget my birth year, or my OB probably would have scheduled me for even more tests, being on the cusp of AMA (in medical parlance, a woman age 35 or older is considered of “Advanced Maternal Age”… just one of life’s absolutely cruel tricks, and not even an especially useful distinction, given the advances in modern medicine.)
Thirty-three has a nice, uniform sound to it, and maybe I’ll have another useful age-computation cheat once Sprout’s born — “Okay, Sprout’s five this year, which means I must be… 38.” 
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Justin said,
December 28, 2006 @ 7:40 am
Happy Birthday! Whoa…I’m gonna be 36? Ah!
Shannon said,
December 28, 2006 @ 1:44 pm
Ah, but being male, you get to look DISTINGUISHED as you age. We women? The best we can hope for is, “Wow, she looks very good for her age.” High praise, indeed.
JRF said,
December 28, 2006 @ 5:33 pm
HB2U
Shannon said,
December 28, 2006 @ 9:37 pm
TYVM
MommaCat said,
December 30, 2006 @ 1:39 pm
Hehe - I knew I often added an accidental year to my my age; didn’t realize I had passed that particular quirk on to you!! Your Dad teases me, “Most women try to pretend they’re younger, not older”. You may remember that I spent some 18 months being “46 years old” because I accidentally added a year when someone at my office asked my age. LOL!
Riley said,
January 1, 2007 @ 3:06 pm
I am stuck on 29, I am not aging any further, I refuse. happy belated birthday.