Home Sweet Home. That's how I'm feeling about living in Ames. My heart is happy. I keep thinking back to a couple months ago when we got an offer on our house and I wasn't sure I could move. I'm glad my friends encouraged me to keep moving forward. Everything is so familiar to me here and I see so many familiar faces when I'm out and about. It's fun and I feel like this is where I'm supposed to be.
The bad news about living in a college town though...realizing I'm about a decade older than all of the students! Seeing so many 18-23 year olds around town really makes me feel old. I push the kids in the stoller during our walks and I get passed by all these young, fit collegiates. I go into a clothing store at the mall and I'm the oldest person in there and wonder if I'm too old to be shopping there. I want to go have a drink at a bar, but I don't want to walk into the wrong one and be the oldest person there. My sweet friend told me I can still pass for 20, but I don't think I could even come close. I'm pretty sure the students would recognize "too old" when they see it ;) I mean, I thought 30 was crazy old when I was 20!
Last night I was feeling a little old (or maybe it was just the wine I was drinking) and the kids were in bed and hubs was gone. So, I started looking up songs from my senior year in high school and first couple years of college. I played quite the list of songs and instantly felt 18-20 again :) I just love how songs bring memories forward so well. I've mentioned before how much I loved my senior year of high school. There was lots of dancing that year...between 3 formals, 5-6 senior parties (at our school that was where a group of seniors would rent a big place and hire a DJ and we'd all go dance for HOURS!) and going to the clubs we could into at 18. One song that made me smile as I was looking at the list of hits from that year was K-Ci & JoJo .....you know the one... "Crazy, crazy crazy crazy....." You're gonna sing it all day now....you're welcome. But seriously, wasn't that THE slow song everywhere you went??? Oh, good times. There were plenty of other songs on the lists that I had forgotten about too. In case you are interested in being taken back to 2000-2002, here is the list I was using...
http://www.bobborst.com/popculture/top-100-songs-of-the-year/?year=2001
Even though living in this town makes me feel a little old, I'm going to embrace how young I actually feel and do whatever I feel like doing, shop wherever I want to shop, etc. This town has so much to offer and I'm sure there is plenty to do for "people my age". If anyone in Ames or Boone wants to take me out on the town, please do :)
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