Life has always been on big bowl of fun for me... until I moved away from the comforts of my parents home and found the big bowl of responsibility. Yah for being a grown up. Did they forget to teach us about how crapy adulthood is sometimes? We spend all of our school days preparing for this great job we're going to have and they never tell us " By they way you will hate getting up every morning to go to this job you have spent 4 years learning".
I have not yet finished said schooling but I am about to embark on the journey of such great joy this January...keeping my fingers crossed it happens.
I am currently a nanny of twin toddler Devil boys. They are a bowl full of trouble. They like to copy what the other is doing but never the good things the other is doing... Why is that?
Anyway back to being an Adult. I find myself to be a very responsible person. I pay everything on time and even pay ahead and over they amount to be ahead of the game. But I still find myself in the Rat Race of life. I'm still looking for my Cheese to get at the end of this race.
My Dream adult life would be to have a home, and children and a Dog.
I would love to be able to go to the Temple as much as I would like and take a lot of Vacations, most of which would be to Disneyland in California.
But like all Dreams they are just that, a figment of my imagination, that disappears when I am awakened by my blackberry alarm reminding me that my Real life 'Adult' world is expecting me by 9:30... and you need to shower.
My bowl of fun is limited to the money I have left over from my bills and essentials of food and clothing... and the $2.70/gal gas in the car.
I enjoy going to various groups to knit and talk and do service projects, but my real joy is found in the Temple. I love the Temple. I could go there every day and enjoy it just as much as the day before. I try to go once a week and some weeks I make it twice! I love those weeks. The weeks I miss my trip, it hits me very hard, like I didn't get oxygen for the week, I feel deprived and under nourished and I am grateful when I get to make up for it.
Adult life is hard, but it is worth the rewards we receive in the end. A warm home, a cool car, My Temple trips and a package of Oreo's with a cold glass of milk.
Life is good, never forget that even when you have a bowl for of Pain in you a@s.
I too am grateful for a cool glass of milk with at least a row of Oreos
ReplyDeleteYou forgot to add that you're an incredibly awesome person and a huge inspiration to all who know you, including me! I'm following you on my blog now, too :-) And, the adult world does indeed stink most of the time but people like you make it MUCH better!
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