Because I’m an adult, I will eat sandwiches off of paper towels and strawberries over the sink so I don’t have to do dishes.
Despite the fact that I own service for 12.
And I can do that, because I’m An Adult.
Because I’m an adult, I will eat sandwiches off of paper towels and strawberries over the sink so I don’t have to do dishes.
Despite the fact that I own service for 12.
And I can do that, because I’m An Adult.
I think that’s what’s happening to me.
A few weeks ago, I saw one of those adult coloring books at Target. I swore I wouldn’t buy it, since even though I did some coloring as a kid, I colored maybe 15% of what I owned, so I knew it would just end up being more junk somewhere, but I bought it anyway.
And one night last week, I was awake until 2 AM coloring in one of the pages of mandalas with an intricate pattern, for absolutely no reason.
On Saturday, I played around with a jigsaw puzzle when I went to the rabbi’s house for lunch, and yesterday, at Target ,as I was walking past the board games, something within me reached out to grab a puzzle. I don’t even know what it is – it’s something with cats and flowers – but, even though I had and still have essays to grade, papers to write, blog posts to update, and books to read, I spent 2 hours this afternoon just playing with the pieces and connecting a few of them together. I liked puzzles as a kid, but it was just like I was ACHING to buy a puzzle and put it together, like, RIGHT NOW.
Next thing you know I’ll be wearing a onesie. I saw a grown man in a Spiderman onesie, at Target, and wondered where acceptable fashion in public has run off to. I guess looking like an infant is the new black?
Am I regressing into someone else’s childhood?
This week, Jenna Marbles posted a video detailing things she is bad at as an adult. We are around the same age, and more or less in the same place in life (Ph.D. student, YouTube personality…we’re basically twins separated at birth. I agreed with a lot of her video and had some of my own to add.
Things I’m Bad At As An Adult:
If being an adult means I can eat macaroni and cheese for breakfast, I think everything else is worth it.
Clearly, I’ve got things figured out.
Last week, Jenna Marbles made a video about things that get her excited as an adult. She is only a year older than I am, so I can identify with her, most of the time. When I started the video, I was convinced that she had officially gone over to the dark side…if there is a dark side…of adulthood. But then, I realized that I get excited about a lot of things as an adult too.
Here’s her video:
And here’s my list for comparison.