If you keep score, the score keeps you.

Signs that you are now, officially, an Adult:

1)  You read leaflets titled “Paid Family Leave Insurance Program” while sitting on the toilet…

2)  …and find them so interesting you don’t want to get up.

3)  You regularly differentiate between “calendar year 2010″ and “fiscal year 2010.”

4)  You develop a crush on anyone who uses the words “Retirement,” “Maximum” and “Contribution” all in the same sentence.

5)  You have wet dreams about your Health Benefits.

6)  You have a credit card…

7)  … and look forward to how many Gold Rewards Points you have accrued this month.

8)  You’ve replaced  “crash” with “turn in” when referring to going to sleep.

9) You know what the acronym “HIPAA” stands for…

10)  …and use it in daily conversation.

11)  Instead of going online to check Facebook, more and more you go online to research annual percentage rates.

12)  You have replaced your Cosmo and US Weekly magazines with subscriptions to Money, Fortune and The Economist…

13)  …and you are actually interested in reading them rather than using them as coffee table decor.

14) You find yourself thinking that one day, you, too, would like to be a member of AARP.

One clear sign you are, however, still very much a kid:

1. You still make lists of all the ways in which you are an “Adult.”

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New job.

New city.

New home.

New season.

Newly single.

New travels.

New sport.

New hair cut.

New music.

New hopes.

New dreams.

New Projects!

New gratitude.

New direction.

New story.

(almost) New year.

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December 3, 2009
This morning I woke early. 3:49 and I was already sure I wouldn’t be able to go back to bed. At 4:00 I gave in, and sat up in bed, grabbing the book K. just sent me in the mail, the one that I have been reading day and night, crying big, hiccuping sobs of gratitude and devotion. I am overcome with love, and just want to praise and praise and praise thank you thank you thank you i am alive. What do I want more than anything? read more »