Weird moment

[quidamling]

Hmm.  Driving back from doing the recycling and settling the balance on utilities stuff... I came to a startling realization. 

I think... I'm an adult. 

Like, I picked up the house recycling because I was there to grab a receipt, had the truck, and was going to the recycling center anyway.  And not that it was overflowing and we NEEDED to get it done, or anyone in the house was griping. But I was there, it needed doing, and I did it.  I'm the house husband in my place.  Loading the dishwasher, actually putting the TP on the holder, doing the trash.  I've reached that point where it needs doing and I do it and neither mind nor expect much notice. 

I mean, I've had to re-jumpstart my "career" (heavy emphasis on the quote-unquote) so often, I sometimes fall into this self-deprecating trap of "When the hell will I be an adult and not some struggling kid that can't manage to take care of myself?"

Well, not that I'm chasing around after a bratling (or herd of bratlings) or paying bills with a spouse when most people have that "I'm an adult" feeling.  No, 29, and no fanfare, and volunteering and driving around on a little island in Alaska in an endearingly rattletrap pickup truck, is when I finally have a quiet moment of "Well, I guess I'm a grownup."

/unrelated.  And I know I owe a picspam post.  I really do.  I will get to it, I promise.

Comments

[dragondancer515.livejournal.com]

\o/ XDDD

[quidamling.livejournal.com]

Random, I know. <3

[aprilraven.livejournal.com]

Aww congrats, hun. *snugs* ^.^ ♥♥♥

[quidamling.livejournal.com]

Well, it's made all the more obvious because hippy housemate, is a complete and utter child and totally self absorbed. Then the nice roommates, #4 has settled in nice, are both so mature and genuinely kind.

Guh. Age is nothing.

[spacegarden.livejournal.com]

*hugs* love this post to bits.

[quidamling.livejournal.com]

Is kinda brain juice squeezed onto the internet. <3

Much love for you.

[requiem-revista.livejournal.com]

I think adulthood is too wide a term to define strictly as age, or even responsibility. It just seems to be something that happens to us. ;)

[quidamling.livejournal.com]

I know. And it seems to sneak up when you least expect it.

[blind-foxx.livejournal.com]

*snuggles happily*

[quidamling.livejournal.com]

<3 <3 Oh, Hamster.

*hugs*

[blind-foxx.livejournal.com]

Slow will take good care of him <3

[eerian_sadow]

man, i did that too. just had that realization that mundane boring "grown up" stuff didn't bother me so much anymore. i mean, i still hate doing laundry with a passion (and dishes), but i do it because it needs done and that's that.

on the plus side, at least we can still enjoy our robots with our inner child, right?

[quidamling.livejournal.com]

Dude, my inner child is like Optimus Prime, never stays dead, it's a fucking immortal zombie. XD

[eerian_sadow]

yeah, mine too. (for example, i just got back from three hours of playing Pokemon with my friend Cody and his son and a run to the grocery store. in that order.)