Guess who turned 28 yesterday?

That's right!  Billy Martin, rhythm guitar player and keyboardist for the band Good Charlotte ... Okay, he's really weirding me out the way he's watching everything I type.  I mean, he's famous.  He's looking at my blog thinking, "Dude, you're typing some weird stuff, and it's about me.  I'd appreciate it if you'd quit doing that."

Seriously, Billy...happy birthday.

No, wait...I meant to blog about me having a birthday!  Yeah, I, uh...uh...

Billy, dude, you're creeping me out.  I mean, what with the eyeliner and the tusseled up hair...that lip ring is kinda weird too.  And the tattoos.  I get it...that's your image.  Just...I dunno.  If I saw you on the street like that I probably would be like, dude...quit with your staring.

Oh, forget it.  Next year I'll post pictures of Cristin Duren.

Okay, so I'm getting old.  Remember when we would spend our days playing Nintendo?  I don't mean anything other than the original Nintendo Entertainment System.  You know the one where the controller had the ergonomic comfort of a brick? 

Many of you also suffered with me the experience of Nintendo thumb. 

Now, we have BlackBerry thumb.  (This has nothing to do with purple-stained hands or briar pricks.)  If you don't suffer from this, don't worry.   It's not like you're sending 14,528 text messages a month or anything...

So I happened to see an article on WRAL.com about the tornado that went through Raleigh. It was 20 years ago. I was old enough to remember that happening! I'm old.

Yeah...yesterday we were walking around in Michaels and we saw some Christmas ornaments.  Shanda pointed out how she liked a particular Christmas ornament they had because it looked, as I described it, "Cheap and tacky...like something from the 80s."   To which my beloved bride replied, "Yeah, it's got that vintage, antique look to it."

Yeah...when the decade in which you were born is a good place to go shopping for antiques, that's when you say, "I'm old."

(But my beloved bride's not old...even if she is a year and a half my senior.) 

There are things that happen in everyday life which strike me and I think to myself:  "I'm old."

Recent items on that list:

• Woohoo!  DirecTV now has the Weather Channel Local on the 8's!
• Natural Gas prices going down 7%!
• I used to fill the gasoline tank on the truck for $20, now it takes upwards of $50.
• I have been driving the same truck for 10 years.
• My truck is old enough to have it's own license.

Now that I've given myself a new "I'm Old" category on the blog, I'll have to start putting things there that fit.

What makes you feel old?  Comment below...