Awesome Things about Growing Up

For the most part, growing up is no fun.  You have to pay your own bills.  Your dad isn't around to fix your car or remind you to check the oil.  Your mom isnt around when you don't feel like cooking your own dinner.  You can't sit around with your friends all the time because you have responsibilities like work, which is always lame.  Not to mention all the emotional chaos that comes with being your own person, separate from your family.

I find myself frequently whining and complaining about how much it sucks.  Let's all admit it, nobody has a good time growing up.

BUT.  I have realized that there are a few TOTALLY awesome privileges that you gain when you get to make your own decisions with your money and time.  I thought I would share these with you.

1.  You can use as much toilet paper as you want.  When your parents supply the TP, they notice if you use half a roll in one session.  But when you are the one buying it, there's nobody to tell you not to! Suddenly the simple task of pooping becomes WAY easier, more fun,and rather empowering.

2.  You can eat whatever you want.  Obviously, we are not even going to go into the health issues behind making bad choices.  But you can totally have McDonalds at ten oclock at night, have pho for lunch and taco truck for dinner (not saying I have ever done that... cough cough..) which leads us to our next point...

3.  Dinner is [almost] always something you want to eat.  If you are making food for yourself, its not like you are going to slave away for something that isnt sounding yummy to you. 

4. You can get the biggest pumpkin at the pumpkin patch.  You are the one carving it, cleaning up afterwards, and more importantly, carrying it to the car, so its ok to go crazy! And you can carve a big scary face if you feel like it.  Growing up in a house of small children, we didn't carve pumpkins much, and if we did, it had to be totally G rated.  The first year Micah and I were married, our pumpkin probably weighed 40-50lbs and we made a bad ass vampire.  Totally worth having to pay for it ourselves and clean up the mess.

5.  You get to decide when you want to do chores.  Yah, sometimes my house becomes a disaster, and having to be the one responsible for keeping it clean is not fun, but if you want to blare some music and clean at 7 am, you can.  OR if you want to choose not to mop your floors for a month, thats your deal. You dont have to worry about getting grounded. 

Well, that's just a start of my list of things that actually kick ass about being a grown up...  Anyone got any other ones?