being a grown-up
This is one of my favorite xkcds:
The whole time we’re kids, people are always telling us to “grow up”, when what they really mean, I think, is “calm down” or “stop having fun” or “you can’t have your pudding if you don’t eat your meat”.
I’m an actual, fully-functional, 100% real grown-up, and this weekend, it meant that I spent all day yesterday reading comic books, and then stayed up way past my bedtime to watch The Avengers, because I could.
Tomorrow, I go back to the work part of being a grown-up (which is kind of a cheat for me, because I love my job so much), but today I will listen to Van Halen as loud as I want (until Anne gets home and asks me to turn it down), read more comic books, and possibly play video games.
But first, I’m going to feed my dogs, because Seamus has been barking at me the whole I’m I’ve been writing this.
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Every now and then I have ice cream for dinner because it suddenly occurs to me that I can, and no one will say anything about it. :)
Not only words to live by, but now I'm incredibly jealous that I'm not Wil Wheaton.
I was just talking to a coworker about this today! I went to the mall with my husband yesterday and asked someone if they had a fragrance that was like cotton candy. They asked if it was for a child, and I replied that it was for me. They proceeded to gave me a look like I should grow up, so I left. I'm a grown-ass lady and I can stay up all night playing Battleblock Theater with my husband while cuddling with a Catbug plush and smelling like cotton candy perfume if I want to! How BORING life would be if everyone fit into the same age/gender roles without realizing that there are plenty of other (more fun) options out there.“Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy and not being afraid to demonstrate that affection. It means never having to play it cool about how much you like something. It’s basically a license to proudly emote on a somewhat childish level rather than behave like a supposed adult. Being a geek is extremely liberating.”
― Simon Pegg
Gally, I wear a lot of perfumes for women, but I also wear a lot for young girls/teens. Why? Because they freaking smell better than some of the high priced, mothball crap they market as adult. What, are we not allowed to smell good after reaching a certain age?It took me a while to really accept the idea of being a grown up and doing/watching/playing what I want to, since a lot of what I like to read involves YA, and I, too, like to play video games, but I finally got over it. I didn't work this hard and this long to let someone else tell me that I'm not allowed to have fun anymore.
Life would be boring if we always did what we were suppose to do
Gally wrote: "I was just talking to a coworker about this today! I went to the mall with my husband yesterday and asked someone if they had a fragrance that was like cotton candy. They asked if it was for a ch..."I had this very pink Invader Zim body spray with GIR on it that smelled like cotton candy, and I loved it!
