Wow back on the east coast, crazy! I almost feel like I never left, things at my parents house feel exactly the same.. I still have to wear 1 ear plug to drown out the sounds of my dad's TV (i'm mostly deaf in my left ear so I only have to plug the right one) my parents seem the same.. if not better actually.. my mom is still stressed about working, my dad still does nothing all day.. although now he can see b/c he just had eye surgery, oh and my cats are here too! I imagine once they come out to Seattle with me coming home will feel a little less like coming home.
One thing I want out of this trip home is to spend more time at home and less time hanging out with friends! Sure there are a few people who I want to see (at least 1 of whom is probably going to be reading this blog), but I definitely want to hang out with my parents while I'm here.
So in roughly 31 days I turn 29. Normally I don't get too stressed out about getting older and such, but in this case I feel like this time there is cause for a little pause. When I was younger I always thought that by the time I was 29 I would be getting ready to get married and start thinking about having kids.. although when I was younger I didn't want anything to do with kids, but I always kind of knew the day would come when I would start getting over that. So I was going to write this long blog, but I just got a text to have lunch with friends and dont' want to run out the door today without hanging out with my dad first, so I'll cut to the chase. If by the time I turn 30 (roughly 1 year and 1 month) I'm single and have no immediate prospects of finding a mate I think it might be time I start seriously looking into adoption! My dad was 38, almost 39 when he had me, the age difference between us always caused problems. I don't want that for my kid (s). Further I totally support adoption, since one of my serious world views is related to population control. Anyway time to go hang out with the fam and then have lunch, more on this later.
One thing I want out of this trip home is to spend more time at home and less time hanging out with friends! Sure there are a few people who I want to see (at least 1 of whom is probably going to be reading this blog), but I definitely want to hang out with my parents while I'm here.
So in roughly 31 days I turn 29. Normally I don't get too stressed out about getting older and such, but in this case I feel like this time there is cause for a little pause. When I was younger I always thought that by the time I was 29 I would be getting ready to get married and start thinking about having kids.. although when I was younger I didn't want anything to do with kids, but I always kind of knew the day would come when I would start getting over that. So I was going to write this long blog, but I just got a text to have lunch with friends and dont' want to run out the door today without hanging out with my dad first, so I'll cut to the chase. If by the time I turn 30 (roughly 1 year and 1 month) I'm single and have no immediate prospects of finding a mate I think it might be time I start seriously looking into adoption! My dad was 38, almost 39 when he had me, the age difference between us always caused problems. I don't want that for my kid (s). Further I totally support adoption, since one of my serious world views is related to population control. Anyway time to go hang out with the fam and then have lunch, more on this later.
Alas, I don't think it will work. Le sigh.
I think it's super rad tho that things feel like you never left home.
As for the whole marriage / kids thing - I'm totally feeling you on that.
I remember when I was younger, I had this "plan".
I wanted to be super focused on my career. And, I didn't want to get married / have kids til I was 30 yrs old and able to support myself and support having a child.
I think it came from my mom having me when she was super young (she was 19 yrs old) and always struggling. I never wanted to put my child thru that.
Now that I'm 26 yrs old, in no serious relationship and meeting douchebag after douchebag - I feel like my plan is failing miserably.
It kinda sucks, ya know. I know I'm not quite there - but still.
Anyways, adoption sounds quite interesting. Would you adopt a child from a 3rd world country (a la Angelina) or from the USA.? (a la Juno or 16 & Pregnant)
Yes, I would imagine it is a rather LARGE thing to think about. However the fact that you've thought about it at all is a large step in some direction. Coolio.