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Las Vegas, NV: I realize age is relavant. When you turn 20, you realize you're not a teenager anymore. When you turn 25, you realize you're closer to 30 than you are 20. When you turn 30 -- watch out, it's all downhill from there. The older you get, you realize you were crazy to think turning 27 (a mere baby!) was old.
And then you turn 37.
I'm not saying this age has the same dramatic impact as years past, but there are just a few recent small reminders that I am getting older. Some examples:
1. I swear, the morning I woke up after I turned 37, my back ached. It was not the every-once-in-a-while-I-slept-on-it-funny kind of ache. It was a new oh-my-gosh-this-is-what-it-feels-like-to-be-getting-older kind of pain.
2. I go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. A lot. Like 2 or 3 times a night. It's not that I'm drinking anymore (or any less) than before, I just think my bladder is getting older too and can't handle being a steel trap for 8 hours like it used to. So I end up feeling like a little old lady when I have to get out of bed (with my achy back) at 2am to go #1. Multiple times.
Another reminder came to me last night in the form of a roulette table. Roulette is the only game I like to play in Vegas (if at all) besides slots since you don't really have to think. If I gamble, I'm most likely drinking and I have a hard enough time trying to add small numbers together sober, let alone with a few cocktails in me. So instead of poker, I go for the one that you literally pick colors and numbers. Easy enough.
I have my standard go-to numbers whenever I play:
3: the month of my birth
5: the number of members of any good boy band
9: after my favorite Omaha band
19: the day of my birth
37: the age I currently am....
except...
wait...
what the....
THERE IS NO 37!
It turns out the roulette table stops at 36. What are the odds?
Looks like I'm going to have to start lying about my age or find a new game. Or, as in last night's case, it might just be easier to give 100 bucks to the dealer and go to bed at a decent hour.
So I can get up 2 hours later for my nightly elderly bathroom ritual.
