How to turn 30?

Here's an instructional article from eHow. Difficulty is categorized at "Moderately Challenging." Things needed, according to Andreya, are moisturizer, sleep, and plenty of cash. I've got the first two covered. The latter I'm working on.

How to Turn 30 With Grace and Aplomb

By Andreya G.

When you're in your 20's, you are allowed to mess up, party often, make youthful indiscretions, date wildly and party recklessly, wear glitter and dye your hair pink, stay out all night, throw money away, defer student loans. Turning 30 marks official adulthood. It is no longer "cute" to behave that way. Thirty means SPF 30 (religiously), IRA's, Retin-A, and 2.5 (kids, that is.) Time to face aging, family, and responsiblity. Career and finances are taken quite seriously, or should be anyway. Time to trade in the little sporty coupe for a nice, reliable sedan... or is it??

1. Step 1
   Buy earplugs. Not literally, but it is more than okay to suddenly become annoyed by the loud music you previously could not live without. If you find yourself shouting "God, it's too loud in here, I can't even talk!" to your friend at the local pub, it's perfectly normal.
   
   
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   Step 2
   Re-evaluate sleep. Remember being able to stay up until 4 A.M. without a problem? Oh man, that isn't going to be so easy anymore. Even if you are a night owl like me, you may also find yourself falling asleep to movies after 10 P.M. Yeah, and you thought only you're grandma does that. So did I. Another word of warning, this is the time when snoring may manifest.
   
   
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   Step 3
   Moisturize. Eye cream, face cream, body lotion, foot lotion... (When did I get dry heels?) You didn't need all this stuff before, but it's hell getting older.
   
   
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   Step 4
   Take inventory. The fun, cool, "pretty" people in your twenties may have been a blast to go out with, but now you may see that some (or most) of them are superficial, selfish, fake, and/or never going to grow up. Friendship in your thirties is different. Don't be surprised if you want to associate with real, "together" people who are intelligent, interesting, and have integrity.
   
   
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   Step 5
   Embrace restlessness. It's a big world out there with tons of options: Stay together or break up? Get married or stay single? Kids now or later? Career or family? Family or travel? Fast track or slow down? Stay here or move there? I feel your pain.
   
   
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   Upgrade. Now is the time to enjoy the fruits of adulthood... Sheets with a high thread count, wine that costs more than $40, nice kitchenware and gadgets, furniture that you don't put together yourself, clothes that are not on sale. Go ahead, enjoy the good stuff.
   
   
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   Step 7
   Ask yourself what you want. In your twenties you were probably trying to figure out what the opposite sex wants. If you are single, now is the time to figure out what exactly YOU want.
   
   
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   Step 8
   Love yourself. Love 30. As cheesy as it sounds, now is the time to enjoy being in your own skin. You know yourself better now than in your twenties, and should be more comforable being you. The twenties are not by any means easy... Trying to figure who you are, what you want to be, who to love, where to live. Ask anyone a few decades older, and they will tell you that your thirties are the perfect mix of youth and wisdom. Enjoy.
   

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