Happy Belated.
26 isn't so bad. I found 20 to be much worse, myself. Back then it was like the shock of getting old - "Holy shit, I've been around two decades!". Nowadays at 26 though, you'll be able to invoke your great age for the purposes of nostalgia ("Ah, back in the 90s..." "That is soooo 1993..." etc), and patronizing those who were born after the wall fell, who can't remember a day when there wasn't a family computer in the house. ("Why, when I was your age...")
Now 30, there's a number I'm terrified of.