I blogged about adulting yesterday. The dark underbelly of reaching the age of majority. The painful necessity of pushing through. The sometimes crazy things we do simply because hello, the buck stops here.
It doesn’t stop me from dreaming, though.
stuff I really want to do but can’t, because Adulting
♦ collapse into the closest chair, curl into a ball, and sleep for hours because I’m Tired and other people can take care of The Stuff
♦ shriek, “But I don’t want to do laundry!” and run to the nearest bookstore, preferably a Barnes and Noble with good coffee and delicious cheesecake
♦ eat a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Fudge Brownie for lunch
♦ grab the remote, stomp my foot, and snap “I don’t wanna watch another episode of Glee!”
♦ Flat Out Refuse to mediate one more argument about calling shotgun because DAMN, enough already, people
♦ find someone who’ll leave money under my pillow for each new gray hair, helping fund my stylist, while singing I love me just the way I am
♦ cancel everything one day a month to curl up with a pint of ice cream, a bag of potato chips, and my favorite Netflix shows
Right on. Uh, I’m not gonna tell you how to do your life, but I’ll say these two things: I have eaten ice cream for lunch (maybe treadmill after, maybe nap 😉 lol) and at our house the eldest child riding in the car at the time has shotgun privileges, period.
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I guess maybe it should read more like no ice cream for lunch when there are underage witnesses 😉 and I’ll tell you, you’re not the first to suggest eldest gets shotgun…boy, the fallout from that one would be unmeasurable.
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It may not be right for you and yours. It does make Moo’s time with Mama even more specialer tho! 😛
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I agree, especially about the shotgun debates. They have gone on for years, and I never quite understand them.
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Me either. Which makes it worse because I’m trying to reason with these two while clearly thinking this is the dumbest fight EVER.
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Ugh. The shotgun argument.
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It. Is. Never. Ending.
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expressing it the light way! we all feel that way, I think
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So true. We can’t wait to grow up, be independent and make all our own decisions — you don’t learn about the flip side until you’re in it. 🙂
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very well said. when we grow up, the world or things are ‘not as we’d expected’
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