Shopping...

[xandriel]

So...I went shopping today. There's nothing all that interesting about shopping usually, but today I went shopping for the whole next two weeks...with a list. And I bought all the stuff on the list...and only a few extras, which were only because I forgot to put things on the list or good veggies that were on sale. I still have to go to Costco to get hot dogs, but other than that I got all my groceries for the next week for 50 bucks...I've totally amazed myself. I'm becoming an adult. It's weird I thought I would be all freaked out when I realized I was being an adult, but I'm not. It's so comfortable and stress free. I mean, sure I stress about things but generally because I know that if I'm not stressed a little then I'm really bored. So I stress about money. Which as we can see by today's excursion, I'm doing very well with it. Quinn graduates in June. The 10th to be exact. Then he starts getting paid too. Which means we have money again. Which means we will likely be buying a house and a car and saving and getting out of debt. Even our apartment looks like we're adults. We have a living room full of bookshelves, which are all organized because Quinn goes nuts if they're not. We have pictures and pieces of art on the walls. We have our "pretties" on display and our wedding albums where people can see them. The living room is mostly neat except for the coffee table which occasionally gets cluttered but then I actually pick it up once in a while and it's all neat when people come over. Our bedroom could use some work on the neatness factor, but we both hate doing laundry. That's on the list of chores to get done today: Make bedroom a bedroom and not a giant pile of clothes. Once I break that habit I will fully be an adult. I work full time at a job I ACTUALLY like, love even. I come home and either have dinner made or (this week) know what's being made. I clean or visit with friends on my days off. The only thing missing right now is that I don't really have a lot of friends around me. I have friends all over the place, but I only really have two friends here in town that I feel like I can call up and ask if they want to hang out. Oh, and hanging out now means going out for coffee, yup, I'm an adult. So yeah, that's what's been going on around my life lately. I've gone from being a single 20 something female to a true housewife adult. I love it.

(For Kelly R. because she asked me to update and inspires me to write)