It's Official, I'm middle aged!

At least according to my DVR. So, with my husband gone this week, I have been reveling in TV, or as I also call it, my boyfriend. I realize I watch only two primetime, network shows, and I think now they both kind of suck. I can barely make it through Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy, and that's only fast forwarding through the boring parts.

I was having lunch with two friends last week and one was lamenting that we might be old. I was really taken aback by this, as I don't feel old in the least, in fact, I feel these are great years, with only better ones to come. I assured her we are in fact, anything but old. The teen years are awkward, and while the twenties give us the blessings of physical vigor, we have career stresses and uncertainties, and (in my opinion) don't really hit our stride until the thirties. To use the old cliche, life is just beginning. By the way, it also helps to have a husband 20 years your senior-- my husband is 55 and doesn't seem any older than me. I don't think of him as old in the least, so if 55 isn't old, 35 certainly can't be.

Well, that doesn't mean I don't notice some changes lately around me. I find I am just not interested in some of my old standbys: VH1, MTV, E!, and most sadly, US magazine. I totally don't care about The Hills (I could not care any LESS that Lauren and Heidi are speaking again-- whatever). I am not going to watch Gossip Girl or the new 90210, and I don't care about Lindsay Lohan and her girlfriend. And then I realized, there really isn't anyone that would appear on the cover that WOULD make me read US-- I have just grown out of it. It truly is the end of an era. I used to look forward to going to the grocery store on Thursday because the new magazines would be out (sorry, did I just give something sad and pathetic away about my life?) Now it's my Costco day.

And then the horror....I got to thinking about what is actually on my DVR. Well, here it is:

Army Wives (a Lifetime Original Series)
5, yes, FIVE Lifetime movies--in various stages of viewing
Without a Trace
Jon & Kate plus 8-- can't believe I'd actually admit that one

Yup, might as well trade People for Good Housekeeping. Or Ladies' Home Journal.