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Notes on Adulthood: October 04
Oct5
Everyday we learn something. That is how we grow! Here is what I learned this week.
1. Freelancing = hustling.
2. When friendships feel like work, you’re not doing it right.
3. The best part of being a food writer is getting free dessert(s)!!!
What about you? What did you learn this week?
-Morgan
Notes on Adulthood: August 30
Aug31
Everyday we learn something. This is how we grow. Here is what I learned this week.
- @theficklenickle says “Adulthood is finally coming to understand why you have to clean the house BEFORE the cleaning lady comes.”
- Just because you love the German restaurant you eat at every week, it doesn’t mean you should apply for a job bar tending there… Right?
- Wanderlust can sometimes be cured by moving the furniture.
- From my husband: If it says dryclean on the label, it’s not a suggestion.
-Morgan
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Forever’s lasting impact
Aug18
I heard this book review on NPR last month and it was the kind of thing that made me sit in the car after I parked so I could hear the end.
Courtney Sullivan talks about the effect Judy Blume’s Forever had on her as a teenage girl and as an adult. She says that when she first picked up Forever, she had no idea it would have such a lasting impact on her feminism and her identity.
Do you have a book that you read as a young adult that you think helped shape you into who you are today? Let us know in the comments.
-Morgan
photo of Forever cover, via NPR.org
Family Dinners
Aug16
I moved in with my husband a little over two years ago when we came to San Diego. One of my favorite things about living together has always been… dinner.
Cooking dinner was special in the very beginning because we lived with his sister-in-law and we rarely had the chance (or more likely a reason) to cook for just the two of us. When we did, everything from grocery shopping to cleaning up after eating was like part of a date and we made it fun.
We moved into our own place after a few months and grocery shopping and washing dishes became less and less exciting but we still love cooking and eating. My favorite thing though, is something we started doing last December after he came home from deployment: Sunday night dinners at the local German restaurant.
That’s right. Every Sunday. German food and dark beer. Best thing ever.
It’s been 9 months now so the waitresses know us by name and because I am so boring they know what I am going to order. It’s the best two hours of the week. We catch up on anything we haven’t gotten to talk about and just have a big relaxing meal that we don’t have to clean up. We have a tradition.
One day, our little family will be a party of three or four instead of just the two of us so I’m really enjoying these miniature family dinners and all this German food.
What about you? What family traditions have you started around dinner and food?
-Morgan
Photo by avlxyz via flikr
Adulthood is Always Changing
Jul24
First of all, thanks for the great discussion on thursday’s post on feminism and the modern housewife! This is a topic I’m sure we’ll come back to. If you haven’t been there yet, do yourself a favor and check it out.
Do you ever wake up and think that a year ago, maybe two, you would never have imagined yourself doing what you’re doing right now? It happens to me all the time.
Today I am going to two birthday parties. One is for a very good friend’s son, it is his first birthday! Later I am going to a party for our dear friend Mara’s boyfriend. So this morning I ran around buying a baby gift and cards, figuring out what I could wear that would be appropriate for both, wrapping gifts, getting gas, getting directions… and otherwise being a grown up.
All of that is normal I guess, but two years ago I had just graduated from College and had only been in San Diego for a couple of months. Friends, birthday parties and babies were very far from my mind.
I like this exercise. Imagining what life was like for me a year or two ago and thinking about the changes. It helps me remember to not let this part of my life slip away too fast.
What do you think? Is it a waste of time to think about how as we get older, things change? Or is it best to just roll with it?
-Morgan
photo via abakedcreation
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