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JeanieS: 29 & Hanging By My Nails

Posted by DFO

March 31, 2009 1:30 p.m. • 31 comments

I have a reverse calendar at work, ticking off the days to when I’m turning the unbelievable age of SIXTY. Why is this unbelievable??? I look in the mirror and I see maybe 40. I don’t feel this new age. So, anyway, yesterday it was 30 days to 60. Today it’s 29 days. Twenty-nine. I remember that age – vividly. 29 was hard to leave – I went kind of kicking and screaming. The 20’s are such exuberant years. You are finally out from under your overbearing parents. You are on your own. Got that apartment. Then married with children. The house/JeanieS, Nuts & Nonsense. More here.

Question: What were you doing when you were 29?

31 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

Frum Helen Back on March 31 at 1:34 p.m.
I was giving birth to my son.
Cindy_H on March 31 at 1:38 p.m.
Me too! I mean, I was giving birth to my son, not FHB’s.
JeanC on March 31 at 1:45 p.m.
At 29 I was finally employed full time, single and still going to science fiction conventions for vacations :D
Cindy_H on March 31 at 1:51 p.m.
That’s right, Jean. Rub it in :-)
JeanC on March 31 at 2:06 p.m.
:D
Stickman on March 31 at 2:17 p.m.
I was a new Dad.
BigMac on March 31 at 2:26 p.m.
I had my first teaching contract, I got married, and I built my house. It was, in many ways, the first year of my adult life. I am enjoying my 30s immensely more than my 20s.
JamesBond on March 31 at 2:50 p.m.
I was partying like a rock star in the evenings and practicing law during the day.
Cindy_H on March 31 at 2:56 p.m.
You mean, kind of like what you do now, JB?
idawa on March 31 at 5:19 p.m.
My 29th year was a turning point in my life. I had already bought my first home at 23, bought my first BMW by 26, and my life was turning into one long string of consumption of toys and gadgets. Early in my 29th year I decided to give up my cushy corporate gig and go back to school in the hopes of doing something more meaningful. By the end of my 29th year I had completed my first year of law school. Now, at 31 I’m just about to graduate. We’ll see if my 29 year old self made the right choice after-all…
DFO on March 31 at 5:33 p.m.
At 29, I was managing Duane Hagadone’s newspaper in Kalispell, Mont., and waiting for the arrival of my first-born son. Now, I’m 59, and waiting for that first-born son to graduate from medical school and possibly, if he can fit it into his busy schedule, produce a first-born grandchild. I’m not getting any younger.
Dennis on March 31 at 5:42 p.m.
I was a “New” dad for the second time!

And thanks to the “Lil’ Darlin”, I got my first crop of gray hair.

:-(
hmoffsuite on March 31 at 5:58 p.m.
At 29, I moved from California back to Spokane and started my computer business. Had been living there since college working for other companies. Bought my first lake cabin on Cda that next year. Great time of my life.
Bent on March 31 at 6:43 p.m.
I was writing for the daily bee in Sandpoint, and just getting ready to leap to the CdA Press…
mia on March 31 at 10:32 p.m.
Let’s see, I married at 18, by 29 I was raising, with my husband, a nine and an eight year old, and we were two years into owning a family business we had purchased. I think we may have taken our first vacation, and perhaps I was taking a wage by then. It was an exciting time!
BethB on April 01 at 7:23 a.m.
I was in Cheyenne, Wyoming, clerking for a federal judge, having just gotten my law degree. I remember when I turned 30 my grandmother asked me how I could be that old when she was still 29.

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