Gosh, I don't think I was very clear in that last post. But that's alright. It was rather late, I was hyped up on caffeine (drinking Cokes all night will do that to you) and my ears were numb, and I think it's clear that I hadn't quite formulated the thoughts I wanted to express.

Well, now it's Monday, I have named it Low Productivity Monday, and I still haven't got those thoughts ready for verbalization. But I'm going to try anyway:

I'm not saying that all of a sudden I want a boyfriend/husband and kids and the house with the white picket fence. Heck no. Rather, it seems as though those are the rites of passage that have always ushered people into the next phase of their lives. I haven't gone through any of those rites. And while it's fun being young and young at heart, I still feel like a kid - no one to think of but myself, nothing to do on weekends but lay around and watch tv and eat popcorn watch soap operas and eat bon bons, and I still take my laundry Home to my parents'.

So what do 30-somethings do that make them feel like grown-ups without taking on a family or a house?

Oh, and the more I see my new apartment, the more I like it. Yay!

And the guy at Trader Joe's complimented me on my choice of power bars. I don't eat these for power, btw, they just get me through the 11-12 p.m. hour when breakfast is a dim memory and lunch seem soooo far away. Sometimes they make a good dinner too.