Adult-hood
I’m trying my best to be slightly more adultish these days. I’m still waffling on it but I try. While I was in NYC, my bro asked me if I was saving up for … property. To buy a home or something in the next year or two. “Pah!” I said. Have you seen Northern California Real Estate prices? That’s a good one. I mean, really, why even bother? I can barely commit to my weekend engagements. How am I supposed to latch myself down to a home mortgage for 20 years+? Is it not enough that I’ve latched myself down to car payments for the next 5 years?
So, I went shopping. So I tried to mull through activities adultish over the weekend. For the first time in what felt like years, I had little planned. Just major housecleaning and a commitment to give all retired clothing/electronics/ and misc. toys over to the Salvation Army. This turned into an all weekend affair where about 7 bags or 50 lbs worth of clothes were excised from my closet. I also sorted through some old items and decided to pass on my clock radio, previous two cel phones, a pager, two land line phones, and an answering machine dating back to 1997 to “the cause”. One old cel phone looks like it could have been used to bludgeon small baby seals. Feeling suitably unburdened, *that* is when I went shopping.
Outlet shopping at it’s best is license not to feel guilty for shopping frivolously. Still, I passed on going to Old Navy and instead sauntered in to Ann Taylor. It’s a different adult vibe in there and in spite of myself I bought some stellar red pants.
This past week, I even stopped smoking. Yup, I’ve had, at most, 1/4 of a cigarette per day. Two days passed and I didn’t even miss it. Impressive? Perhaps not, but a step in the right direction for yours truly. This is a drastic reduction from my NYC chain smoking. And what’s this? Turning off the “Party All the Time” radio station where they’re playing a dance remix of “The Price is Right” in exchange for NPR? Weird but true. I only get slightly annoyed by the ads for Verbal Advantage aka “How to talk like a White square to impress absolutely no one in particular because you think that obscure and oblique etymology is really uh, hot.”
I wish they would come up with a slang version of Verbal Advantage that addressed certain social enclaves.
“Urban Advantage” - H to the Izzo, wazzup cuz?
“Skater Advantage ” - That was one sick move, bro.
“L33t Advantage” - Suxors R U L33T
“Geek Advantage” - Uh… will you blog with me?
“Canadian Advantage” - Spare a toony, eh?
“AzN Advantage” - see L33t & Urban Advantage
Don’t ask me why but I now feel the urge to go buy pink raver pants.
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