Times when I tell myself I need to grow up

1. When I'm digging in my bag for a business card and a tampon nearly falls out.
2. When h-band says to me before I leave for the office: "Do you have your wallet? Your keys?"
3. When I get a note from someone I went to high school with, wanting to be my Facebook Friend, and I say to myself, "Omigod, dork!"
4. When my mother (who works for BlogHer as a Customer Service Community Manager) pings me about business, and I respond (with others copied), "Mom ... (rest of note)" Fortunately I don't end the public ones with "mwah!" (short for 'Love you').
5. When I give H-band the Silent Treatment.
6. When I see that I'm out of cash and don't have time to go to the ATM, so I raid the change dish at home and pay for my Grande with seventeen dimes and a nickel.
7. When I insist on staying up just to stay up.
8. When I say to H-band, upon serving us dinner, "you gave yourself all the sauce!"
9. When I'm packing for BlogHer, and H-band suggests wearing a pair of comfortable shoes, and I say, "Nope! I wore those in '06!"
10. When I spell--and then eat--words I make from the bin of cinnamon alphabet cookies I keep in my office.

Comments

[Cynthia Samuels]

Great examples but farther along the age spectrum than you, I warn there are some things we just can't grow out of.
How about literally weeping at the end of a "young adult" novel (Wednesday Wars)?
Or
Getting popcorn at the movies EVEN WHEN YOU'RE NOT HUNGRY!
Or
Being really excited that it's almost time for the super-fat issue of Vogue
or
Worrying that there are BlogHer parties you weren't invited to
Or
you see what I mean? So OF COURSE you want to wear new shoes. I mean, really! Growing up all the way is completely unnecessary. (for the likes of us, also probably not possible :<))

[Joy]

Who says you need to grow up? "mwah!" ~Mom

[genevieve]

I have just tried to pay for some coffee with my earrings, which were in the coin section of my bag after I went to the hairdresser, so don't worry. They're right, it never ends.

[stephanie (bad mom)]

I have come to believe that most of "growing up" is overrated. :D

[Recruiting Animal]

1. It's abnormal to call your mother by her first name. Better to let everyone call her Mom.

2. Is fear that someone will see your tampon like being ashamed to be seen buying toilet paper?

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[SArah Auerswald]

OMG! Number 7 is so totally on my list as well! And it's crazy, really, because my kids get up at the same time every day and so I'm just hurting MYSELF in the morning. It's very 5-year-old of me!

[Tricia Meyer]

I love the comment about your mom! My mother works for me at my company and I am always struggling between calling her "mom" and "Cindy." When I call her "Cindy," I feel like people wonder why I don't refer to her as "my mom." But if I say "mom," it seems unprofessional. I just count my blessings either way to have her working with me. :)