This is a blog entry that I meant to post in the beginning of the month. However, I got a little too ambitious and never quite took all of the pictures that I had planned on taking. So I am going to have to post it as is and add a sideshow or something later on.
There are a lot of things about being an adult that are a mystery to me. Such as... at what point are you really an adult. Some people think that its when you get to the point that your like "dammit I am an adult, a real adult and I am okay with that. I have my own vision of being a young adult.
1. I get to eat whatever I want for dinner. When I used to eat real ice cream I would sometimes have a lunch of Hagengas. Or I can have pancakes for desert. As an adult my eating habits are sometimes a 4 year olds dream. On the other hand, I am coming to terms that I am allergic to dairy. So I am begrudgingly/gradually changing my diet.
2. I get to have my own space. Its wonderful because Little by little I am putting together an apartment that I like. I think that when I was a kid I didn't really think about whether or not I liked the furniture around me. I was just happy knowing that I had furniture. Now that I have my own place I often go without a piece of furniture rather than having something that I don't like. For about four months I didn't have a sofa/futon. Until December I didn't have a kitchen table and chairs. And even today I have my small tv propped up on an storage bin. But eventually I will have all of the furniture that I want and of course by that time it would be about time that i move into a different aparg tment.
3. I am beginning to feel guilty about how little I actually exercise. The crazy thing is that I have books, I've taken classes and all in all I have a relatively active lifestyle. But living in a place where it seems that not going having a gym membership is equivalent of not believing in God and living in small town USA, my lack of actual "workouts"can be shocking. I personally don't have a real urge to do it. By not going to the gym I cut down the possibility of catching nasty skin rashes, bacteria, fungi and other gross stuff that by about 50%. But I do not have a rock hard body and in my opinion Bridget Jones (the literary character) is skinny. However, I still feel a little guilty that I am happy with myself. I'll get back on the horse. I will rejoin my pilates class and once the rain lightens up I will jump back on my bike.
4. Speaking of bike riding! I never really rode a bike as a kid and now I do. I've explored a lot of my neighborhood on my bike and even gone shopping. I can even tackle a couple of hills. Well, I can make it halfway up more hills than I can go down. I think that bike ridding is as close as I will ever get to driving. I'll start driving when gas and car insurance are free.
5. I read boring old dead authors for fun. For a while I have wanted to read some good ChickLit (if your offended by that title too bad I don't care and I don't want to hear/read your complaints). But I have read Bridget Jones multiple times, the Nanny Diaries, The Devil Wears Prada, and nearly all of the books in the Shopaholic series. And well, I frankly have no interest in reading anything new. So today I picked up two Jane Austen novels. The crazy thing is that I have spent nearly 6 years of complaining about JA. I think that my enthusiasm to read her has not real barring on my feeling about her works. I like it for what it is. But she is not my favorit author, and I don't have that much respect for her as a novelist (again, I really don't care to hear the complaints about this comment as well). But I think that people who know my feelings about Jane Austen would be happy to know that I voluntarily will read her work without any complaints.
6. I like to have planned activities. I already enjoy knitting, but there is nothing like knitting in a group. So I joined a knitting group that has been meeting for the past four years. All I know is that I am far from being a hardcore knitter. I have never gone to a knitting summit to listen to awesome pro-knitters and believe it or not I do not have a huge stash of yarn that I keep under the floorboards. Well I don't think that I do (but I am cleaning out my closet so who knows what I will find). Last but not least I am not a member of Ravlery.com. Until I attend this group I did not know that not being a member of Ravlery was actually the 8th deadly sin. I am trying to make up for that by getting on the wait list. YES there is a wait list!
Aside from knitting I need to return to my book club and start attending dance classes again. There just really is something about learning new things and having interesting conversations with other people who might be just as odd as you are.
Well thats what being an adult is for me. Its basically trying to do my own thing while also finding my nitch out there in the world. Luckily San Francisco is a place where there are lots of other people who are interested in things that might seem a little boring, odd or just random... and they are willing to meet at least once week.
