It started innocuously enough. The radio dial started spending more time on the pop music station KISS-FM and less time on BOB-FM with its hits of the 80s and 90s. I’d find myself humming Call Me Maybe and Wide Awake all hours of the day and night. I blame (or credit) the boys for that one – I haven’t been this familiar with current pop music since before the millennium.
Then I switched coffee teams. I used to be able to order a coffee with milk, but now I have to concentrate to get the foreign words out in the proper order: I’ll have a grande blonde roast in a venti cup, thank you barista.
Finally, perhaps most dramatically, I switched computer teams. This week, after months – nay, years! – of considering it, we sailed forth on the great ship Macintosh. My MacBookPro arrived yesterday, and it was only by an impressive act of self-restraint that we did not also purchase a desktop iMac computer to go with it. That in fact may be another blog post entirely.
It hit me yesterday, as I sat on the porch wondering where my ‘back’ key went, that there’s an underlying pattern linking all these strange new lifestyles together. If I were a male, I’d be driving a red convertible and combing over my tonsure. On the eve of my 43rd (!!) birthday next week, I’m having a geeky midlife crisis!
Don’t be surprised if you see me in Starbucks, Mac propped open on my lap, wearing skinny jeans, a hoodie and Buddy Holly glasses with a piercing in my lip. It won’t be pretty, but at least I will be cool at last.
cool at last! Love it.
Hipster Dani is here!
I was just reading on another blog a discussion about what a mid-life crisis for a woman looks like. I think this is a great model – I’m off to Starbucks!
You were always cool to me! But if you go with the lip piercing, can you live blog that one?!!!
Welcome the Mac family – you will not regret it!