It’s been one year since thirty-four.
I still think it’s weird that I’m not a teenager, frankly. I always thought that being a “grown-up” would feel more, well, grown-up.
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Thirty-five.
It’s been one year since thirty-four.
I still think it’s weird that I’m not a teenager, frankly. I always thought that being a “grown-up” would feel more, well, grown-up.
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you have a lovely profile. happy birthday, anna! xo 🙂
Have a really good birthday. I hope thirty-five knocks your socks off!
I’m barefoot already!
Happy Birthday!
I agree about not feeling ‘grown up’. I have a mortgage, a credit card and I always vote, but most days I still feel like a 14 year old playing house 🙂
hope you had a great day. yeah…I don’t feel like a grownup either
here, here!
i’m nearing 30, and i remember, as short as five years ago, thinking that 30 was… old.
it’s just a number.
… and a slowing metabolism.
Happy Birthday! I hope the numbers don’t get to you.
Happy Birthday! I still feel like a teenager too (most days) and I think that’s a good thing. It doesn’t seem like it’s been 12 years since we became friends and I feel so lucky to be your friend! xoxo
I’m sure it’s been longer than that, Adam! I’ve been at my current job for 12 years…I think I’ve known you for almost 14 years!
You could very well be right, my grasp of time is often very flexible!
Best wishes. And age is just a state of mind in my books. x
No way you’re older than 28. 🙂 I know you say it’s makeup, but you glow.
That’s just the shade of constant mortification. 😉
Happy birthday!
Oh happy, happy birthday to you Anna! Stay young at heart and you’ll wear it on the outside. Best wishes until the next birthday! (beautiful portrait)
Its really weird being a grownup. Mostly because the people that I always thought of “grownups” who were my parents friend seem less grownup than me now.
I’m always shocked when I meet a “grown-up” and then find out that they’re younger than me.
I hear ya! I turned 35 in February and I have to say it’s the birthday I’ve struggled most with so far.
It’s not so much that I’m struggling with the the age so much as it is that I can’t believe I got here SO FAST! Where is the time going?!
My 35th is in 6 months and I feel the same way. Sometimes I look in the mirror and wonder if my mother thought I was an idiot thinking that 30 was soooooo old.
I’m sure she thought the same thing about herself when she was your age. 🙂
Happy Birthday! I turned 60 in May and I still don’t understand how that happened when I feel just like I did when I was 6. Weird. Just plain weird…
I’ve loved watching the progress on your home as I’ve been working on our 1841 townhome for 12 years (hard to believe we’ve been here that long since it was the 28th move in my life!)…I’m working up the incentive to repaint the living room and music room with all the prep work and climbing up and down the ladder that entails. But the corner that has been bare plaster for 4 years because of some water damage is finally REALLY getting on my nerves. It seems that’s what it takes to get me moving!
Take care – can’t wait to see the black bedroom since I had planned on painting my dining room black 12 years ago but was vetoed (family) and had to settle on black wallpaper instead. Loved it, but it’s now a lovely cream. (It went through a period of being a vibrant sapphire after the black…)
My birthday wisdom/gift for you: Change is good! Embrace it!
-karen anne
Oh, Karen Anne…12 years?! You have my sympathies. I imagine it gets to a point where you have to start all over again with some rooms before you’ve even touched others. Yikes!
Happy Birthday! I turn 40 next month, and am really trying not to freak out about it. Any suggestions? Numbers are just numbers. We seem to give them a lot more meaning in our lives than they deserve. Why don’t we toss out the calendars and scales and all live happily ever after?
Anna, we should start a club. Just tonight I said the exact same thing to a 16 year old girl I coach. Our conversation went something like this:
Me: One day I’ll do *this* but I have time before I’m all grown up and have to do *that*
Her: But coach, aren’t you “grown up”? Aren’t you 31?
Me: Yes.
Her: So aren’t you grown up?
Me: I don’t feel grown up.
Her: What does grown up feel like?
Me: I don’t know. But I don’t think this is it.
Happy Birthday Anna.
I hate thinking about the fact that my nieces and nephews must think of me as being an ADULT.
How very wrong they are…
Happy birthday, Anna. May you enjoy many, many stylish years to come!
Happy Birthday Anna! And that is one rockin’ hair do.
x
Happy birthday! You seem to have mastered the art of staying youthful- gorgeous and totally with it. Let me know if you want to disclose your secrets…
Coffee! And general immaturity. 😉
happy happy birthday!
(btw you TOTALLY do not look like you’re 35!)
Happy birthday Anna. It’s my birthday today too, but I am a day ahead in Tasmania. I know what you mean about not feeling so grown up. I’m 39 now and really don’t feel it most of the time 🙂
Happy birthday, Sarah!
Shut.. up… no way! You look like you’re 24.
happy birthday anna!
Grattis Anna!
Happiest of days, Anna! I turn the big 4-0 next year and wonder how I can be reaching the mid-life crisis zone…and still feel child like. Maybe I’m actually regressing and don’t realize it…
Happy happy birthday! I’m 35 too. I had an age crisis at 24 -since then it’s been all good. When i turned 30 I thanked God I wasn’t turning 20 🙂 But I agree – Been married for 8 years, have a child, lost my own mother and all my grandparents, and I still definitely feel young! My mom had my baby brother when she was 35 and she said she was so old to have another baby hehe 🙂
Anyways. It is just a number. Feeling young makes one look young I guess 😀
I know what you mean! I still wonder when I am going to fell like a proper grown-up and I’m 35 with 2 kids. I guess it just means you have a young soul. A good thing in my book 🙂
I was looking at old school pictures a few weeks ago and realized how young some of my teachers through High School were. Much younger than I am now. I mean when did that happen?
All the best and Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday to you! Your new blog design looks amazing, and so do you (I’m 33 and oh my, I thought I was ten years older than you. For real. Not that it matters – or should matter – how people look. But… Yeah, wow. Kudos for that too, because health is so important, and I believe that you inspire readers to take better care, eat less cute animals and just live a healthy life. That’s great).
Congratulations from snowy Norway, I’m sure 35 will be great! 🙂 You look marvelous, by the way 🙂
All the best from Poland 🙂 May your next year be as good as this one, or better. And, yes being grown-up doesn’t feel grown-up at all, does it? 🙂
Happy happy birthday! Hope you had a really good one. 🙂
Happy Birthday Anna, and it’s as good a time as any to say thank you, I love your blog.
Happy Birthday Anna, and it’s as good a time as any to say thank you, your blog rocks.
Happy Birthday! I know what you mean, I turn 34 in about a month and don’t feel remotely grown up. Aren’t grown ups supposed to know what they’re doing? I certainly don’t. I’m just winging it! I can’t wait to see the finished bedroom, every room you touch seems to come out fantastically!
Happy birthday! 🙂
35 & beautiful.
See I really can be nice.
And I have not formally apologized to you for my past divisiveness, as a birthday gift I want to sincerely apologize. I’m at the Grouchy age.
You’re still all dewy & youthful.
Hope you had a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
You look beautiful! I’m 35 about to turn 36 and can’t believe how much I feel like I’m finally growing into myself. Your post about body image and obsession with weight shows that you are really yourself too. I really enjoy your blog and your outlook. Happy Birthday!
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Happy Birthday. 🙂
I know what you mean by “I still think it’s weird that I’m not a teenager.” I still think of myself as being out of college… I mentally default to that age, and then have to remind myself I’m in my thirties.
I digress. Happy Birthday! I hope you enjoy the day and can fill it with all that you love.
With each passing year, I become more and more convinced that “grown up” is all in the head…
Have a lovely birthday filled with all your favourite things and surrounded by all your favourite beings (human and non human)!
Happy Birthday, Anna! Here’s to a great year.
(This photo has inspired me to search your blog for make-up posts because you have the loveliest skin!)
Happy Birthday!!
i know what you mean! “adulthood” has turned out to be nothing like i imagined it when i was 10. and seriously, when i see teenagers lately, all i can think about is how *young* and silly they seem. time is a crazy ride.
happy, happy birthday!!!
happy birthday anna!
Happy birthday! Longtime reader but I don’t usually comment… had to today because there is no way in hell you look a day older than twenty-five. seriously.
Also, your skin is amazing. Have you found any great vegan makeup that you could share? That is one area where I could use some help!
Happy bid day. I know right! I feel like grown ups are all in on this big secret, we are all just big kids.
Yeah. Still kinda a kid inside – I get that totally. I can’t believe I live with people who call me “mum.” It’s weird. But great.
And you look gorgeous, ma’am. (Ohyesshedid just “ma’am” you. Heh.)
I know exactly how you feel, I am turing 30 in 2.5 weeks and titled my draft blog post on the topic {a sixteen year old trapped in a 30 year old’s body}.
Although, I do work with many 24 year olds, and I often find I cannot relate to thier drama filled lives. I was once there too, so maybe I have grown up a little. But there’s definitly a lot more to go!
happy birthday.
i had to click through my reader to tell you that you look amazing!!! do it up and celebrate”)
ha! i totally know what you mean. i remember, as a teenager, thinking of celebrities as grown-ups and now it’s startling to think that many celebrities are younger than me.
your hair looks freaking awesome. happy birthday!
I hear ya on the still feeling young part. I just turned 35 too…I took a picture of myself the day of, but didn’t get around to posting, but I did post this:
http://cedarhouseblues.blogspot.com/2010/08/big-3-5.html
Happy Birthday Anna!!! Getting older is weird to me as well. It is so strange when we realize time has passed, but we still feel young. I think it will be like this forever. I’m 43 now.
A very happy birthday to you, Anna. I’m currently having an anxiety attack over the fact that I now have to be a grown up, seeing as how I graduate college and start my first real life big girl job in only a few months. As always, you look wonderful and I can only hope I am as successful and put together as you seem to be! Go celebrate!
Happy Birthday Anna! I’m turning 30 in a few weeks, and you described the mixed feelings quite well … I am definitely glad to have my 20’s be over, though! 🙂
LIBRAS! I knew I liked you. Hope you had a great day!
Happy Birthday! I feel the same way- I always wonder when I am going to feel like a “grown-up”- when does that happen!?
Been following you for ages and I must say I feel your hair is especially lovely lately. Happy Birthday
i turned 31 in july and i feel the same way, only i feel like i should be eternally 27 years old. you have a great profile! happy bday!
Happy Birthday Anna. You look so lovely. I totally get what you’re saying. I’m much older than you, and besides my body hurting, well I just never adjusted to being an adult. I’m still a five-year old. P.S. your house is looking lovely, and that wallpaper is divine. Also, your hair is fab!
This post brought me to the realisation that I’ve been following your blog for over 2 years now – I remember the post for your 33rd birthday 😉
Feeling grown-up is entirely overrated, as long as you’re enjoying yourself, that’s what’s important.
You’re looking fabulous, and your blog is still such an enjoyable space to visit! Thanks for sharing stuff with us 😉
You look wonderful. I can’t see a line in your face. Enjoy your new found maturity and wisdom. I am going to be 65 in 14 months and can’t believe it went by so fast. I am compiling a list: 65 things to do before 65. I hope I can finish the list.
You look fantastic and nowhere near 35!!! I too thought being grown up would feel more grown up.
Every Birthday I feel that way….Happy 35!!!
happy birthday! yeah, I know what you mean about not feeling really adult even at this age. I’m turning 45 in a few weeks and I still don’t feel like an adult. The only time when I really start to feel like one is when I’m nagging at my toddler daughter — makes me feel like my mother!
A (late) happy birthday to you, Anna!
I turned 54 the very same day and I stopped thinking about the numbers a long time ago. I used to worry about the “growing up”-thing because I was afraid that I would be(come)
“serious”… like no more silly, funny and crazy things to do, say or experience.
I was so wrong:-))
To-morrow I’ll have a girls night out – my friend is 86 and the most hilarious woman I know. Good friends and a LOT of laughter keeps you young – most of my lines/wrinkles are from laughing, so I don’t worry about them either – they are well earned 😉
Hope your day was filled with love & laughter!
Happy Birthday!!! I can so relate. I turned 34 this year and although I have 2 kids, I feel more and more like a teenager every day! I hope your birthday was fabulous and 35 treats you well!!
What the what?? Happy Birthday!! I hope you enjoyed your long weekend!
Hahah! Thanks, Sherry! 🙂
Anna, I am now 55 and I feel (in my head – not my body *oy*) the same as I did when I was in my mid 20’s. I wonder when that changes?
Happy belated birthday! I know, isn’t it so weird? I still don’t feel grown-up most of the time, and I’m older than you are. I wonder if I’ll be 85, wondering when I’ll be grown up.
Happy (belated) Birthday!
I just wished my dad “happy birthday” too, and he agrees, he still feels “just like a kid on the inside.” BTW, he just turned 87!
Hey, surfing through every page of your blog tonight. . . and where do you get your haircut? Do you go somewhere in the city? Have you already answered this question and I haven’t found the answer yet?
Thanks!
btw. Happy Belated. You are so fab.
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