Hey everybody, i’m twenty-four today!! Nathan promised me that there was a lot of knowledge to gain upon turning 24, and i do believe i’m feeling wiser already.
Twenty-four has some pretty big shoes to fill, actually. Twenty-three was an awesome year for me: meeting the love of my life and spending many happy days hanging out with him, moving to our sweet loft downtown and getting to work from home. I’ll miss that last one a lot when it’s over. 
In the last few months i realized that there are quite a few songs in my music library that mention being twenty-three. I tweeted about them yesterday, but i’m not sure anyone was paying attention, so here is the list:
Blink 182 – What’s My Age Again?
And that’s about the time she walked away from me
Nobody likes you when you’re twenty-three
And you still act like you’re in freshman year
What the hell is wrong with me?
My friends say i should act my age
What’s my age again?
On the day that I turned 23
I was curled up underneath a dogwood tree
When suddenly a girl
Her skin the color of a pearl
She wandered aimlessly, but she didn’t seem to see
She was listening for the angels just like me
Amazing still it seems
I’ll be 23
I won’t always love what I’ll never have
I won’t always live in my regrets
Look good in that red dress
I bet the boyfriend’s happy
Your face is scarred with age
You’re twenty-three but, how can that be?
Still hooked on cellophane
Killing time with Gin and lime
Each second numbs the pain
Love’s just another rhyme.
A decade ago
I never thought I would be at twenty-three
on the verge of spontaneous combustion
Woe is me
But i guess that it comes with the territory
An ominous landscape of never-ending calamity
None of these lyrics really reflect my experience of being 23 (except maybe the gin and lime bit), but i’ve always thought it fun to listen to songs that mention the age i am currently. So, the search for songs about being 24 begins…
Thursday, August 13th, 2009 4:16 pm • life
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August 13th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
I always thought the same thing there are many songa regaurding 23 but life still gets better even after 23!
August 14th, 2009 at 7:22 am
oh dear… JEW 23. I turned 24 at kind of a rough point in my relationship w/ Kasey (haha, when hasn’t it been a rough point? ha — kidding) and he turned 23 shortly there after … and that song just sort of fit around that time. Sad.
I totally didn’t think about “what”s my age again?” having 23 in it too! weird.
Anywho, welcome to the fabulous life of 24.
August 17th, 2009 at 10:34 am
Wow – can’t remember what it was like. I turned 40 last weekend and I’d thought 30 was a milestone a decade ago…
I guess each birthday is an achievement and experience in it’s own right. You’re a year old. You’ve got a year’s more experience under your belt and you’re (hopefully) a year wiser.
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” Abraham Lincoln
Happy Birthday Steph.
Dave
August 21st, 2009 at 9:08 pm
You can have 24. It’s a good age. I’m blowing this popsicle stand for 25 next month. You take good care of this number.
Happy (belated) birthday… may 24 be as good as 23, and may things keep getting better from here. Cheers!