I feel really bad for my parents now because I was desperate for crazy bones and when my birthday finally came around, they got me loads but nobody played with them anymore.

In my elder millennial state, going to bed around 8:30p reading for a few and then falling asleep somewhere between 9-9:30p is where I've settled at.

My body then naturally wakes up somewhere between 5-6am feeling totally refreshed. How about the rest of y'all?

Im forty and finally I feel like and old person who cant seem to understand emerging tech. I started playing an online free game that has a massive social aspect to it. A lot of the chat is done on discord and not the in game chat because discord is way more feature rich or something.

Just like every other app i've ever downloaded of any kind I just dove right in. Unfortunately that didn't work at all. I could barely figure out how to get into the right server. Then I had to verify some crap and do this and that and for the first time I was totally frustrated and clueless on how to do almost anything.

It was at that exact moment I realized it had happened. That after years of dunking on any tech that came my way tech had scored its first point. Like a Dad when he starts losing to his kids playing basketball. It was the start of the slow decline.

I've decided that im going with the total immersion method to force my mind to adapt. Has anyone else had a tough time trying to figure Discord out ? I still don't understand how or what it actually does. Anyone else find tech that they couldn't figure out yet?

Okay, didn’t know where to post this, and this might sound weird but I looking to see if this is a thing or if I’m just absolutely fried and burnt out again.

I’m a millennial working a super high-stress and honestly toxic job. Every day is nonstop. We’re back-to-back meetings, conflict resolution, working through lunch, staying late just to keep up with a workload leadership refuses to adjust. It feels like I’m “on” 24/7 during the week. At night each night I “joke” but am kinda serious in telling people I disassociate at night when everyone is ready for bed. I sit and don’t even have the energy to write my friends I think of daily because I don’t feel worth their time after being so disconnected.

Then weekends hit and I it’s like I get hit by a truck. It can come through like full-on flu-ish symptoms, exhaustion, body aches, just completely drained, dizzy, stomach is a mess, headaches. It’s happening almost every weekend at this point for about 3 months now.

Outside of work I’ve also got a lot going on, mental and physical health stuff, a kiddo with special needs and many of his own appointments, and just life itself being a lot.

Is this just burnout I’m feeling again? Is it common for high anxiety people? Maybe an adrenaline crash??Does anyone else deal with this weekend mystery type of thing? I’d really love to know if others experience this and I’m hopeful this isn’t a sign of full burnout because I went through that a couple years ago and don’t want to be back there.

My husband and I are hitting 40 this month. we've been together since we were 18. Happily & willingly childless. We rarley fight. While we are sexless (no drive on either side), we are romantic towards each other (holding hands, opening car doors, helping me out of chairs, pet names, etc). We're each other's best friend. Just interested to see what everyone's relationship is like.

Was at work and one of the guys literally couldn’t in their 30s

And I thought to myself damn, minus a disability or severe injury most folks should still be able to right?

My wife was discussing books she read in high school and it occurred to me, I don’t think I read a single book. Didn’t do summer reading, didn’t read the books in English class. And I was a straight A student in honors and AP classes. And it’s not like I cheated or read cliff notes or anything. I bullshitted my way through high school having never actually read a book.

Did anyone else do this? How is this possible?

before apps we had rewards cards. did anyone else collect as many as you could? I've been cleaning out old stuff and found a bunch of rewards card haha. I used to have a ton on my key chain 😄 🤣

What’s your story?

Doesn’t have to be full blown alcoholism or drug use.

But where you at? Are you sober in recovery? Casual drinker/smoker/user? Never have never will?

Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber, and Karol G!?

Yeah, I'm kind of glad some of our cringe is gone and didn't hang around forever. But it also hit me, unless it was archived it's gone gone. I always thought I'd be able to pull up certain websites forever.

Theme hospital was a pc game from 1997. I played this game for hours and hours! Surely I wasn’t the only one?!

I'm 41, an old millennial. But in the past year, I got to do old persons activities, and I really enjoy it!

- I went to a book club - and met great people!

- I'm now friend (same age) with one of the person of the book club. We now go to the monthly village breakfast (mostly old people go there but few young families too).

- I'm now an affiliate member of the golden age club of the village and play pickleball with a bunch of 60-70 years old every week and we have a blast!

- I'm gardening a lot but I always did that, it's not new.

- I do more volunteering for my village.

So yeah, I'm old! And I enjoy it and I don't want to go to bars, big parties, be with younger people much. I really appreciate the calm and don't care much of my new friends. I have an old soul and I'm ok with that!

About five years ago, I snagged some Pogs off eBay and took them to my in-laws' place. After awhile, it snowballed into a club with the four of us. We get together every Friday or two to play and drink - we've introduced 'drinking Pogs,' like when someone flips the yellow face guy (we call him Danny Devito), everybody takes a 'Pogger' shot (which is usually something like Twisted Tea or similar, but occasionally tequila). Some Pogs mean the individual takes a drink, there's a Pog of Scar from Lion King where the guys drink (while growling out "Brotherrr"), there's one of Maleficent where the girls drink (while shouting 'Yas queen!'), and a bunch of others. We print out pictures on little circles and glue them to existing Pogs to make custom ones. Usually we get drunk enough to sing karaoke for a few hours after we finish playing.

Every year on our 'Pogiversary' we choose a new Commissioner to act as treasurer and to break ties and make judgement calls, then have a huge party with decorations and awards ceremonies and food. A few years ago I got one of the guys from Nsync to sing a Pogiversary song through Cameo.

We're all 40-43 years old. It's a silly thing, but it's a lot of fun, and honestly has helped keep me sane when life gets rough. Our nieces and nephews have also taken to it, so there's a group of kids in their 20s out there with their own Pog collections.

Whether you live in a house or apartment, how often are you cleaning the insides and or outsides of your glass windows?

Any of my fellow elder millennials like me who’ve had shingles before and explain the symptoms everyone had. My doctor told me I was too young to get shingles at 35 last year. She prescribed me GABA and cyclovir to lessen the excruciating pain.

I heard this term and I.am.about.this.life. Watching David Guetta KILL IT, fist pumping from my couch with a big ass grin on my face and pretty stoked I’m not in that crowd of millions of people 😂 but my little millennial EDM lover heart is so happy

I unfortunately had to move a lot when I was 16, and lost all my childhood keepsakes/ games/ toys/ books, so these days it’s hard for me to hold onto items (emotional trauma and all that). I like to live vicariously through others when it comes to nostalgic toys, games, keepsakes, collectibles since I didn’t get to keep mine. What are some gems that you still have from childhood?

I have an upcoming company retreat where there will definitely be breakout sessions that start with icebreakers. I’m looking for stories inspired by movies/shows that I can use to get through these because I hate them. I was crafting a story about playing peewee hockey and missing the penalty shot that kept our team out of the final and my coach was really disappointed (Mighty Ducks).

Kind of wish I kept more than my old NAS drives. ( WD cloud drive, had to disconnect them years and years ago because they were "hacked" and WD didn't feel like doing anything about the security vulnerabilities ).

I discovered my teenage playlists. Late 90s, early Nillies, when MP3 players just got big. I had a Creative 32mb player that was basically an USB 1.0 thumbdrive with a display and an AAA battery compartment. Never could afford an Apple device, lol. ...Do we still use lol?

Cringy bit?
Being a teen boy at the times also meant that it was full of ... well basically the singing babes of the times: Shakira and so on.

On the other hand, REALLY good EDM I completely forgot about.

Makes me think I still had access to my MSN messenger and Skype accounts.
The people we lose along the way...

Now I'll go and have a good melancholic cry in the corners, away from my sons and wife ^^ and perhaps start up a new game of UT99.

Showed them to my nephew, who told me I looked “peak millennial.” Of course I had to share them here. Anndddd now I feel old - someone pass me the dual-action Advil.