The aging process or just a rant?

Clearly, since this is my second post of the year, I'm having trouble keeping up with my goals for 2007 and the blogging. I'm still here, but it takes me a while to get riled up enough to write about it.

Anyway...

I have come to the conclusion I am getting older, but I don't have to like it. These are just a few things I've noticed in myself, but had hoped they weren't true.

...When did it become ok for the local "oldies" station to start playing 80's music?!? I did NOT get a memo about this. I swear it wasn't THAT long ago when I was hearing music from the 50's, 60's or 70's and I was fine with it. All of a sudden I've started to hear songs by Duran Duran, Richard Marx, or Elton John (more later about him). I nearly drove off the first bridge I encountered after this discovery. This is NOT okay!

...When did I start making those groaning noises my parents made when they got out of bed?!?

...When did 9pm or 10pm become too late to go out and do anything?? Nowadays, if I'm already out it's fine, but if you want me to go out at 9pm it had better be important and I really have to like you. Although you can always call until 11pm - just don't make me go anywhere.

...When did loud music, or loud cars or both start to bug me?? This may be attributed to the teenagers/kids/punks that live behind me.

...When did I start calling them teenagers/kids/punks and stop calling them my age group or just a few years younger??

...When did I start getting a little giddy about cutting coupons? They do not have to be grocery coupons, but can also be Bed Bath & Beyond coupons or something similar.

...When I did start thinking I have to get my domestic duties done before I can go out and play with my friends?

...Oh and back to Elton John. The man is an icon and has about a million songs, give or take. Why is it the only songs I hear on the radio from various stations are the following:

Benny & the Jets, Don't Go Breakin' My Heart, Rocket Man, and last but not least Daniel

I am a fan of Elton John, but it's time to let these four songs rest and some of the others out to play. Another victim of this is Billy Joel - again a million hits, again I'm a fan, but the one hit I hear over and over is Piano Man.

Let it go...