I'm Really Dating Myself Here....

Isn't it funny the difference 10 years can make? In all sorts of ways, really.

I'm approaching 10 years since I graduated from high school. I can barely think of anything that's the same since then.

Mostly, I am thinking about my recent girls trip. Three of the five of us are in their thirties and the other two (me being one), in their twenties. The funniest thing was when the older ones mentioned that they all learned to type on a typewriter! That's crazy! I don't feel like they are that much older than me, but that totally dates them!

My husband and I are always joking that our kids are gonna think we're ancient because we didn't have internet until I was in about 5th grade, which also happens to be when we got the first computer in our home. We took pictures with film and you never knew what you were gonna get until the film was developed. I got my first digital camera for my 22nd birthday. I had a CAR phone when I was 15, but it did me no good until I was 16 and actually had a car to use it in since it wouldn't hold a charge outside of a cigarette lighter. Then there was the short lived era of the pager. I did get a cell phone sometime in high school, but we still didn't have texting or national calling plans. I remember our principal giving us a "mouse demonstration" for the computer in 2nd grade and I think they were still running dos at the time. We just got gps in our cars a few years ago so it's still new to us and we still know a lot of people who don't have them, which I am sure will be silly to think about 5 years from now. Oh, how funny it is to consider these things!

Naturally things were different for our parents too, but we think the gap there is big enough to warrant drastic changes. People we hang out with? Not so much.

Still, my "older" friends said that the schools had internet when they were in college but nobody really trusted it. They didn't have cell phones until after they were married. It's amazing to think that the things I was going through as a child and adolescent they were going through in their young adult years and now I basically consider us in the same life phase. It just makes me chuckle.

So, here's to getting older and all the changes that lapse me and my brother, who happens to be 10 years younger. I'm sure I'm already sounding ancient to him!