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Sweatpants serving as acceptable attire for any occasion. As opposed to after college, when donning sweatpants for seven days straight is about as far from acceptable as you can get. Passing stretchy jeans off at work might be the closest you can get to those glory days, but it does make you appreciate weekends that much more.

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Date someone who will be standing across from you in public but still send you a message telling you how sexy you look, even when your wearing workout pants and a hoodie.

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It’s not you, it’s me. I love my couch too much. I love the way my Blu-ray sparkles in the living room light. I love how I have my very own food court just feet away. Is it heaven? No, it’s my house. So, yes, yes it is.

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It’s a common feeling, one that creeps up on you every so often, so slight that you don’t pay attention until you realize that you’re 30, single and binge watching Netflix with Tate’s chocolate chip cookie crumbs stuck between your boobs.

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Guys don’t stare at your butt if you don’t have one.

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It can be hard to wade through the options and pick the actually comfortable clothes from the contextually comfortable ones. There’s a difference, for example, between a truly comfortable crown and the only crown out there that doesn’t feel like a carbon copy of the crown of thorns.

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A warm beverage. Cocoa, tea, apple cider, and, yes, pumpkin spice lattes.

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3. Never leave the house without twenty dollars, mascara, and ChapStick.

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But growing up in a small town in the Midwest really does grow on you. Moving away, you start to miss the little things (or in the Midwest’s case, not so little).

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Ummm. Yeah, no.