This is a thread for ILXors in their 30's!!! yo yo yo breakdancing etc...

C'est dommage -- I'm almost outta here!

Yeah, we're about to go from the VP Agnew years to the VP Ford year. You kids have fun with your disco.

Thirties are awesome, but its definitely way more intense than my twenties were. In a good way.

so far my 30s have been about diminishing possibilities and the reality of crushing financial burden and lack of mobility settling in even as i try to ignore it with less and less success. on the plus side i love somebody.

at least i've still got good hair, that never goes away, does it

what up motherfuckers

what is being 30 like today

Happy Birthday!

get off my lawn

god

Happy birthday!

LOL I want to go back and slap 2008 me and shout BUY A FLAT YOU NINNY.

welcome LJ!
definitely on the back half of this 30s thing now and it's pretty good

been here, done this

hey mookie you want to get a beer

whoa i'm older than lj?

We all are. This was established a decade ago.

i just assumed that everyone who's been on this site longer than me was 35+

Sup lj hb nb 30s are sweet

Happy birthday LJ, have a good one man.

I have to Remove Bookmark from this Thread now :(

Happy birthday LJ

Tony Blair also made a comeback today #excitingTimes

Happy birthday dude!

can't believe lj is only now 30. happy birthday!

congrats lj, now you have no excuse

Oh my. hblj

HB, LJ. Cannot believe that there's still anyone under 30 among our Council of Olds.

I guess I oughtta milk this thread for all it's worth now, since I only have a handful of months before I have to face the death panels.

excusing me intruding into the kids' thread but happy bird-day imago

I turn 30 this December.

jesus christ stop rubbing your youth in our saggy faces, you whippersnappers

j/k enjoy your 30s, it will be a magical journey

i'm gonna be 30 in june see y'all in a few months

Thanks everyone! Spending the day trammelling around Weybridge and environs, on the Digger trail. Here's to 17th century socialism (and Italian restaurants)

oh happy birthday lj!

HBLJ, hope you have a good day and indeed decade

I want to go back and slap 2008 me and shout BUY A FLAT YOU NINNY.

Dear 2009 me, don't buy a nice flat in a good location, buy a horrible tiny house in a crap location for 10% more, because in 2017 the flat will be worth 20% more (maybe soon 20% less as they are building a giant tower of cheap flats opposite) and the house will have doubled in value and you are never going to get a house nowwww

(actually maybe don't, I love my flat, but still, I would also love a garden and not to be able to hear my downstairs neighbours sneezing, and they would probably love not to hear all the things I do which are louder than sneezing which I don't even want to think about)

...This thread has made me realise I don't know where time has gone since approx Aug 2011, there were probably some things I should've done in that time but it seems suspiciously like I haven't done anything at all

I'm 35 and sorry I missed this thread during peak breakdancing, and except for getting into jazz, Steely Dan, and Yes, things are about like they were circa 27ish, though more of my friends now make more money than I do, making me seem more like an underachieving bozo - living with roommates, staying up late, and meanwhile nursing roughly the same rolling midlife crisis as ten years ago. More of the people I was carrying torches for have gotten married or at least engaged. My hair and outfits are maybe a little cooler, and I consume substances I didn't back then. Probably I'm a bit more emotionally mature and I think I'm a better listener and partner. My days still seem to slip away from me often; I blame ILX but this place is often worth it.

My 30s are like a decade-long shit snaking off into the horizon. Trying to think of what I have to show for it beyond an explosion of white amidst what little hair I have left.

Although I realize self-assessment induces more of a shrug than the panic and dread that it used to, so I suppose that's growth of a sort.

If you don't yet practice good posture, this is the decade when that will come back to haunt you and all thoughts of future breakdancing will become a cruel joke.

Srsly, enjoy your joints before they start popping and locking independent of your conscious intent.

Ha actually that has been something different, posture awareness! After a very ugly back incident four years ago, and somewhat-under-control shoulder trouble, both stemming from decades of using computers in moronic ways.

getting an office job has improved my posture - getting the seat & screen positioned just so means I'm in a decent position all day. I occasionally feel it in my neck/shoulders a bit but it's very minor and my lower back feels drastically better

Doing the little stretch/yoga type exercises they gave me after my big back incident has been key. Would also help if I could get myself to stick to a gym routine, and especially if I had convenient access to a pool and swam a few laps a week.

I just started physical therapy this week.

I just completely destroyed myself.... doing the vacuuming ;_;

...this is prob better suited to the old geezers thread tbh

the old geezers thread? you mean this one?

or perhaps this one would be more to the point -- although it is now touched by sadness, bcz the OP was bimble.

The only difference between my early-mid 30s and my 20s is that everyoen I know is married and has kids. I'm still living like a degenerate, but with a corporate job, so life's not even wild, it's just mismanaged. I'm healthier than I was in my teens and 20s, so that's cool, and I still have most of my hair, so that's pretty cool, too. I'm starting to give into the groove, so I have pretty good feelings for the future. I just never thought I'd live this far.

The one weird thing about getting older is the weight of memory and experience. It feels like this mental exhaustion, and makes me understand why some people would want to die in their old age. I feel like my life is just starting now , but man, I don't get how people like Peter Thiel could drink the blood of illegal immigrant children and male prostitutes he hires off Craigslist to become immortal. I guess you'd have to be the kind of person to do that to do that.

You started off pretty well there but