Legally, I suppose I've ben an adult for (yikes!) seven years now. But I've never really felt very “grown up.” Sadly, I'm starting to feel that way. I was very disturbed to find that I was practically giddy over setting up my 401(k) and a new savings account.
I'm married and more often than not, I see people my age with kids and sensible sedans, not school bags and mopeds. But just because I becomre more mature and responsible doesn't mean I have to give up all the fun. I can still watch cartoons and read baby-chick lit and appreciate a new box of colored pencils. It's not against the law. And I swear I will *never* have a sensible sedan.
When I go to the library, I turn into a four-year-old again. It's amazing what walking into that building does to me. Libraries are so full of potential and knowledge and possibilities and fun and I'm instantly returned to my youth. My mom would take my sister and I to the library on a regular basis. We'd pick all the books we could carry and bring them home and have bedtime stories with both our parents every night (or what seemed like every night). So many of those books are still with me … their stories, lessons and characters … and so is my love of reading and learning. 
Just as I was about to head out to lunch, these beauties showed up. I don't know how many of them there are. I'd guess at least 100. They smell so nice, not sweet, but fresh … mmmm. 
I'd nearly forgotten that 
On Friday when I was coming home from work, I stopped by Target and picked up 
I had the grandmother of all headaches last night. It started around 3 PM. I still don't know what caused it. It was probably my body rebelling against a combonation of lack of water (I usually drink 8 glasses/day, but I had had hardly a single glass) and a lack of sinus-clearing shower that morning. It escalated all day until it was throbbing in my right temple as we were coming home from a party. I hit the shower and advil (again) and went straight to bed… at 8:00. 
Keeping life organized is a challenge for me. I've tried lots of systems over the years. I thought I'd met my perfect match in PDAs, but the teeny screens, cumbersome software and data entry and battery life left me longing for paper. So while I keep my organization neat on my computers (office and home), paper is my traveling companion. I maintain calendars and contacts in Thunderbird (at home) and Outlook (at the office) but maintain them manually based on the calendar I print once weekly and add appointments to by hand. My to-do list is a word document with special sections for Target and grocery store shopping lists. Reminders are a shared task between my phone and computers and most updating is done manually. Since I have a relatively small amount of data, it works well for me. But of course, I'm always open to change.