Jeanne's Last Day of Being 30

I will be turning 31 tomorrow morning at 6:55am. How does it feel to be (close to) 31?

1. It feels groggy some days. My body creaks and groans a little more than it did a few years ago.
2. It feels like a body settling into stagnancy (doing push-ups and sit-ups every day just doesn't cut it anymore).
3. It feels like I should hear kids running around, but there aren't.
4. It feels like a warm slice of chocolate cake with a thin layer of icing.
5. It's not really caring there will be a cake for me on my birthday.
6. It's loving to be in my pajamas and drinking tea all morning and afternoon.
7. It's getting excited to make a trip to Target.
8. It's noticing the disappearance of elasticity and appearance of veins in the skin on the back of my hands.
9. It's going to Trader Joe's every week, knowing that we should be cooking fresh produce but not yet ready to.
10. It's using the anti-aging cream that my mom bought for me on my 30th birthday.
11. It's walking around the apartment in wool slippers.
12. It's oatmeal with cereal mixed in every morning.
13. It's waking up as the sun rises every morning.
14. It's picking up the daily paper from the walkway and tossing it onto our porch every morning.
15. It's wanting to pull out the stationery and write letters, but conceding to sending an email once in awhile.
16. It's having a gmail account, but not knowing how to use all its features.
17. It's complaining about every grammatical error I see in writing.
18. It's waking up never having to wake up alone again...
19. Though sometimes it's waking up with a bent elbow on my face.
20. It's not that bad!