doing okay for 30

30 Things Every Woman Should Quit Doing By 30

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1. Buying clothes from the junior section.  (cannot. fit. them!  the junior section and my body were never friends.)
2. Forgetting her parents’ birthdays.  (okay i never forget them, i'm just late in celebrating them.)
3. Making out with her BFFs at bars for attention.  (i hate bars!  there.  i finally said it.)
4. Making out with her boyfriend at bars for attention.
5. Filling her bed with stuffed animals (really, even one is too many).  
6. Carrying a torch for anyone she hasn’t seen in the last five years.  
7. Rebelling against her parents for the sake of rebelling against her parents.  
8. Declaring an entire gender “all jerks.”
9. Holding a grudge against anyone who wronged her in high school.  (i will always hate you, Lauren B.!)
10. Skipping regular gyno exams.
11. Going to bed without washing and moisturizing her face.  (i never do this.)
12. Being “that person” who had a bit too much to drink at the office party. 
13. Crushing on Justin Bieber.
14. Thinking she’s got it all figured out.  (HAH!)
15. Calling her father “daddy.”  (creepy macphelersons)
16. Engaging in sibling rivalry.  
17. Trying to get by on her looks.  (HAH!  mom gut is so hot.)
18. Living paycheck to paycheck.  (errr.  uhhhh.)
19. Expecting a man/knight in shining armor to swoop in and save her.  (well, he does.  every single day.)
20. Aimlessly jumping from job to job.  (not me.)
21. Using MySpace to pick up guys.  (don't have a MySpace; pick up guys from crib/floor/stroller/car seat.  my achin' back.)
22. Expecting a man to do all the wooing.  
23. Wishing she had someone else’s life.  (no way!  horn toots for madge's life!)  
24. Expecting everyone to drop everything because it’s her birthday ... (maybe for my 40th.  i never really celebrate my birthday big...)
25. ... or because her “boyfriend” of two weeks dumped her.
26. Measuring her self-worth by a number on the scale.  (no!  way!  i measure it in MCDONALDS CHEESEBURGERS.)
27. Being cheap.  (i'm not cheap by any stretch, but i'm also definitely not materialistic or a conspicuous consumer.)
28. Quitting a job without having a new one lined up first (especially in this economy!).
29. Blaming her mother for all her issues.  
30. Romanticizing her 20s.  (i actually had a conversation with steve last night about a conversation i had with two library employees in their very early 20s.  my conversation with them was painful.  i told steve i was so so so happy to be far far far away from 22.  ugh.)