46

Wisdom from Jen - how to be 46 and still be cool (you are welcome)
1. Be 46
2. Be cool
3. Use a lot of terms you don't understand like "bye, Felicia!"
4. Invest in a yurt-centered trailer park - in Nova Scotia
5. Try to have at least half of your teeth
6. Date Bill Nye (I'm not dating Bill Nye)
7. Get a jet ski
8. Show up in Monaco with a jet ski and a yurt, DO NOT APOLOGIZE. EVER.
9. Swear all day - very loudly
10. Appreciate your friends - even the annoying ones
11. YOU picked them, YOU deal with it
12. Fine!
13. Start a podcast on NPR (no one will listen)
14. Attempt to show off all your real teeth in SnapChat
15. Delete SnapChat because it doesn't make any sense
16. Find old GoPro and do Xtreme snowboarding and photoshop into coolness
17. Marry your best friend
18. Accept that shit will just start to fall off your body
19. Invest in good insurance
20. Care about politics and justice in such a way that others are slightly in awe/terrified
21. I was just.....oh crap! My knee fell off. Is that a tooth? WTF?
22. Did I mention insurance?
23. Have vivid dreams of Paul Ryan crying before he goes to bed at night. Don't worry, he hasn't slept in 22 years.
24. Wear age-inappropriate clothes and walk by Forever 21 eating a Twinkie
25. Every day, give MORE than you take. Much, much more.
26. Be prepared to have no one give a shit
27. Discover the rumors about yourself - waay better than reality
28. Try to make real life match rumors
29. Opt for the rumors
30. Call a snarky teenager out in public if they are being mean
31. Travel everywhere. Anywhere.
32. Appreciate your totally insane family
33. They think you are batshit crazy too
34. See EVERY show
35. Twice
36. Date a drummer at least once
37. Break up with the drummer
38. Start your own band
39. Write your own book
40. Start your own religion
41. Leave it
42. Start to see the patterns in life and embrace their logic
43. Let some friends go - they were there when you needed them and it is OK to release them
44. Swim. Oh my God, swim! And run! Jump. You will get hurt now because you are old - whatever
45. Accept you, totally imperfect you
46. Give back more than you take