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Damnit, I Think I Might Be An Adult

By LilFlightTest (Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 07:16:09 PM EST) (all tags)

it struck me the other day that i just might be an adult. darn. maybe i was an adult before any of this stuff, but now i'm certainly aware of it.

It snuck up on me too. i got a degree, which most definitely did not make me an adult. then i got married, which didn't really change anything either. we realized on our honeymoon that nothing felt different, but that we DID feel married, and wondered when that started.

two things did change in the last month. we bought a house, so now i have a mortgage. i know that doesn't make me an adult, however, i'm one of those people who takes financial obligations and responsibilities seriously, and didn't undertake this lightly. i finally have a home of my own, which is amazing. somehow i never really felt "home" at an apartment, because i couldn't customize it to suit me.

the other thing is this: i finally have a real, permanent job, with benefits. those are hard to come by recently in this area, especially in my field. so, i'm not in that field anymore. i've officially joined the ranks of those who've left Bio for IT. but more about that at another time.

so the realization that i now have the ability to really provide for a family...that i'm no longer just a second income...and that i finally have real roots, a husband, a home, a job....it's a really, really good feeling. i feel like i've accomplished something. that's a big freakin' "woo hoo!"

just so you all know, though, just because i may be an adult, doesn't mean i always have to act like one.

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Adulthood by FlightTest (4.00 / 1) #1 Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 07:54:33 PM EST

Is vastly over-rated.

But congrats. On the degree, the marriage, the house, the mortgage, and the job.

Here's to growing older, but refusing to grow up!

Adulthood by greyrat (2.00 / 0) #3 Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 10:49:07 PM EST

I a giant suck-hole of sucky suckiness. AVOID IS AT ALL COSTS!!!SUCK!
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There is absolutely no correlation or causation amongst intelligence, power, talent and wealth.
Kha-Nyou
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Alright Cap'n Morgan by kwsNI (2.00 / 0) #6 Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 08:42:43 AM EST

How's the hangover this morning?

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No hang over. Bad typing. No proof reading. by greyrat (4.00 / 1) #7 Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 09:01:31 AM EST

I am working on a cold or an unusually intense allergy attack though...
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There is absolutely no correlation or causation amongst intelligence, power, talent and wealth.
Kha-Nyou
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: Fine by kwsNI (4.00 / 1) #11 Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 12:30:46 PM EST

My version was better though

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What the.. by Driusan (2.00 / 0) #9 Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 11:17:54 AM EST

"Congrats on the mortgage"?

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: Makes other things in life easier by FlightTest (2.00 / 0) #10 Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 12:12:09 PM EST

Fools 'em into thinking you're "responsible".

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It sounds like... by toxicfur (4.00 / 1) #2 Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 08:01:44 PM EST

you're right where you want to be, even if you had to compromise a bit to get there. And that is a wonderful thing!
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: But this too is true... by greyrat (2.00 / 0) #4 Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 10:49:53 PM EST

Poopy.
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There is absolutely no correlation or causation amongst intelligence, power, talent and wealth.
Kha-Nyou
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: the one thing by LilFlightTest (4.00 / 1) #5 Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 12:01:42 AM EST

i refused to compromise on was job satisfaction. that would be why it's been almost two years since i obtained the degree, and just now found a permanent job. i could have had a job with benefits...but not a job i'd be really happy in.
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if de-virgination results in me being able to birth hammerhead sharks, SIGN ME UP!!! --misslake
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Congrats on the job by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #8 Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 09:10:40 AM EST

If you ever start feeling like an adult... by ObviousTroll (2.00 / 0) #12 Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 01:51:11 PM EST

you're either in denial or a far more capable human than I am.

I'm 43, I've been married longer than I've done any other single thing in my life, and I still wonder what I'll be when I grow up.

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Has anybody seen my clue? I know I had it when I came in here.

advice i was given on being an adult by misslake (4.00 / 1) #13 Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 04:52:50 PM EST

i forget who the sage was, but they told me how to tell if i was an adult.

when you are a teenager, you host a party and you buy something extra in the hopes that everyone gets stupid drunk, and you end up with significantly less booze than you started with. people steal other people's drinks, steal your booze, steal your parent's liquour, drink the mouthwash, etc. some people get drunk, some people don't.

when you are an adult, you host a party and you buy something extra in the hopes that everyone gets stupid drunk, and you end up still having some booze left over in the morning. perhaps it is a couple liquor bottles 1/4 full, perhaps there is a forgotten bottle of vodka in the freezer, maybe a bottle of screwtop white table wine that someone brought over and didn't drink because there was plenty of better things to drink.

when you are too old, you host a party and buy something extra in the hopes that everyone gets stupid drunk, and you end up having more booze the next day than you started out with. people who are too old not only bring enough drink themselves, they will also bring you a hostess gift of a bottle of something or other, and have picked up a bottle of something interesting that they wanted to tell so and so about. there are numerous re-giftings of bottles of terrible wine, abandonnings of 1/4 full bottles of liquor that someone just wanted to be rid of, and several people deciding that they have drunk enough and then leave without taking the last 4 bottles of beer from the case they brought over.

you just have to host a party and then you can tell if you are a grown up or not.

: problem with that by LilFlightTest (2.00 / 0) #14 Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 10:48:27 PM EST

is that i don't seem to have enough friends. we'll see what happens when we have our big housewarming party, though!
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if de-virgination results in me being able to birth hammerhead sharks, SIGN ME UP!!! --misslake
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