*DISCLOSURE
I'm an open book, I was originally putting the finishing touches on my blog "Stay Close, Move Far" about my interview with SDPB about moving away from South Dakota. Then the weirdest feeling hit me, I was writing a blog about South Dakota, writing about how I need to stop writing about South Dakota...so I stopped writing it. Here's a link if you want to read the interview I had.
Here is the link: SDPB Link
The reporter did great, she got most of what I stated in there. I went to school for journalism, dabbled in the TV for a bit as well...you do these interviews to get your story how you want. We moved for those reasons, among others. I also said nice things about the people in the state, and I CLEARLY love the state. It just didn't make it in, which is fine. But that doesn't need to be covered by me in a very long...very angry...blog.
If you read this blog, you know my feelings (some don't apparently, I'm just a text away, honestly ask me anything and I tell the truth, weird how that works) about why we moved. No need to cover it in this blog for the FOURTH time. The Kleeman Report, sadly, started to gain a lot of steam in college because I, as the kids say, used to spill the tea. I got away with a lot on the re-read I did, some good, some very bad, and that's not who I am anymore. You change. You get older. You realize drama is dumb and that's why you stay out of it (or not write an angry blog aimed at people who probably won't read this). I had a lot living rent free (again, as the kids say) in my overactive mind and it's time to let all of that go. If anything I do or say is in yours, maybe you should let that go too. Life's short. Have fun. Wear shades.
THIS IS 39
Getting older sure is weird, isn't it? I got done taking my shower the other day and I realized...there's a gray hair in my eyelash...and this blog idea came to me. What new things have I noticed? What is different now in my routine? Is it spelled grey or gray?
All of these and more will be in the following, with easy to read bullet-points!!! Yeah!!! We all love bullet-points! Let's go! Cut 'em up!
- I'm going to do a tie in with what I wrote from above. Getting older, you just kinda stop caring as much what anyone thinks of you anymore. It's not good for the brain. And if you have an imagination like me, anything can just sit in your head for as long as you let it. I have the bad habit of wanting to have the last word as well, but since I had kids that's just not going to be a thing anymore. So let people think what they want, I'd rather play cars with my son or do something creative with my daughter.
- Now that the "heavy" part is out of the day. My eyelashes getting gray was very unforeseen. Like that's a thing!? Why!?
- Everyone, boy or girl, if they are under 25 looks 12. I got carded buying alcohol the other day and the kid looked like he was on a Nickelodeon show. The Suite Life of Zack and/or Cody ID'd me and it was surreal...oddly while I was buying cereal.
- Speaking of which! Cheap brands were always kinda looked down upon when I was growing up, now they are my jam (except for Cinnamon Toast Crunch, not happening).
- Speaking of which part 2! Cheap clothes now vs when I was growing up...a 100% improvement. Walmart or K-Mart clothes back then? Just pure garbage. Then they decide to step their game up when I'm in my 30's, where I MUST BUY a Wrestlemania t-shirt because it's freaking dope.
- Oh my god my chest hair is now grey/gray.
- At 39, you start to feel like a turd to my mom for the above 2 reasons, because honestly food is food. Sorry mom! I easily could've enjoyed Dr. Hy-Vee just as much as Dr. Pepper. They both got their doctorates, take that Mr. Pibb!
- If I don't use a foot cream...my feet look like those of an 80 year old man. Now my feet look like the feet of a 45 year old man. Quite the improvement.
- Everything hurts, but then you forget about it, until you think of that body part. If you're over 32 right now and reading this, think of your neck in your head. It hurts doesn't it? Sorry, not sorry.
- I used to be a night owl. I would even watch James Corden, that's...that's a problem...that is until I had children. Now 10 PM, get me some news, get me some weather, maybe a chapter in a book and BAM, bedtime by 10:30.
- I was at the pool last week, hanging with my son while Heather was with our daughter. A kid under 25 walked by (could've been 12, 16, 18, or 25, I CAN'T TELL!). Blink 182 was playing..."I love this oldie, it's so good!"...and then, depression set in.
- Every hair imaginable...is now grey/gray.
- Drinking is so different. A few things to discuss here. A drank a lot in college, more than probably 20 of you reading this. I don't know how I survived. I was telling a neighbor about mix drink Monday in college. We had the biggest night on campus at our house, on a Monday night, just drinking liquor. Playing liquor pong. Teams of 2-3 splitting a 1.75 of cheap alcohol...and we destroyed it, woke up the next morning and got Pizza Hut lunch buffet, repeat. The dude was baffled that this was a thing...now just thinking about it, I want to vomit.
- So before that previous paragraph gets too long, I can have about 5-6 IPA's in a night and not be hung over. But I might have 2-3 drinks and go out and feel like garbage the entire next day.
- I could have a few glasses of wine and feel okay...also in my 30's, wine has now become a thing for me.
- Blacking out isn't as cool anymore in your late 30's...it probably...never...was cool to begin with. I just can't imagine drinking that much again now and then not knowing what I did the night before...I freak out if I forget to lock the door.
- Fish Oil pills.
- Dieting is a funny thing. It sucks and if you are trying to diet I want to let you know it's the hardest thing to do. Burger King ads with new delicious burgers. McDonald's has the ice cream machine working. Tacos. Sushi. Meat. All of it is so good and it's constantly on TV. I'm not currently dieting, but I've tried to watch what I eat...it's insanely difficult.
- I say the above because I got rid of dairy for a week, and my body felt great...but I love cheese. I literally cannot live without cheese. I found a substitute, it was good, but if I kept buying it kiss one of my kids savings accounts goodbye, it's that expensive. So back on the cheese.
Jeff Kleeman
