I'm Getting Too Old For This S**t

And again I have been remiss in updating this lovely blog. I've been reading lots of other blogs and thinking, "Oooo, I like that. I should blog about that." And then I don't. Just pure laziness on my part.

Let's see. Since last I updated, Mike and I went to visit our friends Meg and Andrew in New Hampshire, along with some of my other college buddies. What I discovered while out there is that I am old. As in Danny Glover, too old for this shit, old. By 11pm I was ready for sleep, and everybody else was ready to start a game of Kings. Now, I'll admit, I've never been a huge party person, but I can remember the days when I would leave to go out at 10:30 or 11 and stay out until 3 or 4 in the morning and be up in time for breakfast at dining hall. Now I'm lucky if I can stay awake past 11 and I'm still exhausted when the alarm goes off in the morning.

Recently Mike and I were listening to the LMFAO album and I said to Mike, "This is a great CD to listen to when you're getting ready to go out." To add insult to recent injury, Mike says to me in response, "Yeah, but we never go out anywhere, so what does it matter?" Burn. Just burn.

On another, slightly unrelated note, Mike and I bought a new car. Like a brand new car. And it's really my car, because it's a stick shift and Mike can't drive stick shift...yet. Here she is:

At first I hated the color. It's called Alien. We test drove her to the dealership's back lot to see the other colors, and the more I drove her, the more I began to like the color. And when I saw the other Souls in their nondescript colors, I began to love her color. And that's how I ended up buying an alien green car. And did I mention that she has a stick shift? Because I am so glad to have a car again with a stick shift.

Fresh on the heels of the car purchase, I made another big-ish purchase. To get into this, I need to rewind slightly. Mike and I were talking about the car and such and I mentioned that the car had a great safety rating and that in about 5 years, when we have kids, this will be something we'll be glad we thought about. And Mike holds up two fingers and says, "Two years." To which my stomach responded with a shocked clench. And what ensued was a bizarre negotiating, much like one would barter to price of deli meats. I threw out a 4.5 years and Mike threw a 2.5 years back at me. And back and forth it went until I think we settled on 3.25...years that is, until we have kids.

So this got me worried. There's so much I want to do before I have children. I want to travel some more and make some crazy childless decisions before my world becomes focused on raising another person. And one of the things I've wanted to do for a really long time is to learn how to play the guitar. So I bought one. And now I'm watching youtube videos to learn how to play it. In the 4 days since I bought it I've already learned 4 chords and I'm concentrating on making those 4 chords sound like an actual song. And that's how we bought a car and a guitar in one weekend.

So dear readers, I leave you with another question: Do you have a bucket list of sorts? I know Kristin does, and she is very good about keeping hers updated. Is it a lifelong bucket list or a list of things to do before something? Like before you're 30 or before you have a baby or before your knees get too arthritic? Have you accomplished anything on the list? Let me know!