You might think that's a weird comment, but if you could get inside my head, you would know that I still feel like a child and think like a child very often. (Okay, just so you know, I am aware that if you didn't think my first comment was weird, you probably are definitely changing your tune as you continue to read.)
Here are some things that slap me in the face with this horrible realization - I'm all grown up!:
1. When I was trying to think about what to post on my blog, I thought about telling you how Miles was devastated after coming home with three new "soaker" hoses last night, getting them all set up, and sitting down to watch the news to find that Fort Worth will put water restrictions in place, beginning on Monday. He had plans, people - plans to save our bushes!
2. I know what soaker hoses are, I watch the news, and I am worried about our landscaping. I wouldn't pay any of those things any mind, if I wasn't all grown up.
3. I have foot issues - like old person foot issues. What the hell!?
4. The state of the U.S. public education system has me so upset, I can't stop calling my parents to talk it out.
If you care, too, visit www.studentsfirst.org.
5. I am thinking that I shouldn't have ended my last sentence with a preposition. You may have noticed, I don't follow stringent grammar rules here on The Sweet Life. But, I still THOUGHT it! I'm old.
6. Health Insurance - It's confusing to me, not exciting, and when I'm dealing with it, I think, "Wwwhhhyyyy? I so wish I was on the playground."
7. The two things that made me feel like I had immediately grown up, and simultaneously question why I didn't feel different now that I had "grown up," were getting married and buying a house. Those were milestone events, y'all. Amazing, but so grown up of me!
8. I told my students I was "appalled," when they didn't get my joke today because they have never heard of John Denver.
I remember laughing so hard at my own 8th grade teacher, when she kept my friend and I after class to tell us we needed to come down out of space and try to learn algebra. We literally thought she must think we were aliens, or why else would she say that? I thought, "I'll never be so grown up that I don't remember how it is to not care because you're 13."
But, I have, I've forgotten - I'm that grown up. I get mad at my students for not knowing about someone who died about a year before they were born (and they didn't even care for an explanation)!
9. I know that I am not going to live forever. (No more invincible feeling.) And, I am okay with that, because I am sooooooo tired. ;) I know, I know, I don't even have kids, yet.
10. Lastly, I have been going slowly grey for at least two years. I know, I know, I don't even have kids, yet.
Oh Michelle, you are still so young. However, you do have so much more responsibility. I am glad that you care about your students.
ReplyDeleteSave those plants Miles, it is cheaper than replanting.
You are funny too.
John Denver?
You are old!
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