Nothing to Fret

I know I've been a little ridiculous with getting older, but today I received an email that made me think I was the youngest 27 year old I know. The email contained a list of things people do when they get old. Surprisingly there were only a few that applied to me - especially this summer. So here's the list. Are you really old??? I've highlighted the ones that apply to me.

25 SIGNS YOU HAVE GROWN UP :(

1. Your house plants are alive, and you can't smoke any of them.
2. Having sex in a twin bed is out of the question.
3. You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
4. 6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to bed.
5. You hear your favorite song on an elevator.
6. You watch the Weather Channel.
7. Your friends marry and divorce instead of hook up and break up.
8. You go from 130 days of vacation time to 14.
9. Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as "dressed up."
10. You're the one calling the police because those %&@# kids next door won't turn down the stereo.
11. Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.
12. You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.
13. Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up.
14. You feed your dog Science Diet instead of McDonald's leftovers.
15. Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt. (sometimes!)
16. You no longer take naps from noon to 6 PM!
17. Dinner and a movie is the whole date instead of the beginning of one.
18. Eating a basket of chicken wings at 3 AM now severely upsets, rather than settles, your stomach.
19. You go to the drug store for ibuprofen and antacid, not condoms and pregnancy tests.
20. A $4.00 bottle of wine is no longer "pretty good stuff."
21. You actually eat breakfast food at breakfast time.
22. "I just can't drink the way I used to," replaces, "I'm never going > > to drink that much again."
23. 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.
24. You drink at home to save money before going to a bar.
25. You read this entire list looking desperately for one sign that doesn't apply to you and can't find one to save your sorry old butt.

This is not my list!

Do All These Heffers Look Alike?

So summertime for teachers is supposed to be all about breaks?!?! Well that's what I thought before I actually became a teacher. While I sat immersed in work in the middle of July I came to realize that this was a fallacy. I haven't had a chance to take a break from anything...except this blog. Maybe I shouldn't have taken this break because I feel that it could have gotten me through this pretty rough summer. But you live and learn...I guess.

So I'm sitting here watching the MTV VMA's. I'm looking to see how everyone is dressed, who's with who, and I keep seeing Beyonce appear on the screen...with different outfits...with different people, and it finally dawned on me...that's not Beyonce, just a whole lot of women who are mimicing the brown skin/brownish-blondish hair duo. Let's see who's rocking this no longer unique combo...Ciara, Mariah Carey, Shakira, Trina, Christina Milian, Ashanti, J. Lo, and I can't think of anymore right now, but I'm sure if I contine to watch someone else will surely "surprise" me with their original look and sense of style. And I will admit - I didn't see all of these women on tv tonight, but when thinking about the videos and appearances I've seen over the course of the summer, I begin to remember more of the women who have fallen prey to this... Now there are a few who didn't jump on to this bandwagon, and I salute them...well maybe I won't go that far, but I will thank them for making this show a little more heterogenous.

Time is Not on my Side...

It has been forty days since I've written my last blog. Forty days of abstaining from writing. (Hey, didn't Jesus give up food for forty days? Not that I'm comparing myself to him.) Forty days ago was my last day as a first year teacher. Forty days ago I was ending my first summer school class for this year. Forty days ago I was trying not to think about turning 27 in the next forty days.