Adulthood: I'm SO Over It!

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I am an "accidental blogger". When I launched my writing career in March of 2014, one of the things that I decided to include was my journaling, which I have always found to be a comforting and therapeutic endeavor. It was a big risk to open myself up in such a public forum, but it has taught me that, for the most part, we share far more experiences than we think. It's comforting to know I'm not alone! (*the "Button Text" is the link to my first novel)

Adulthood: I'm SO Over It!

3/19/2015

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Image@1stfun.com...I am SO doing this soon!

Remember when the most important decision you had to make was whether you were going to play superheroes (...while wearing your awesome bathroom towel cape), or build a sheet fort in the living room and watch cartoons (...seriously, Looney Tunes were THE best)? I'm sitting here eating animal crackers and wondering why being a grown-up has to be so flippin' complicated! Maybe it's really not and I'm doing it wrong. It's possible I'm the one responsible for making it such a ridiculous quagmire of heavy duty stuff.

Honestly, the older I get, the more I appreciate the carefree joys that children instinctively gravitate towards. I swear sometimes I've been so serious at this whole grown-up business that I can't even stand being around myself! I miss play! I miss a childhood I barely got to have, one I traded in for adult problems and responsibilities. Don't get me wrong, being responsible still matters very much to me, but isn't there some kind of balance to be had between the two worlds? If there is, I am by God determined to find it.

There is a little girl inside of me just chompin' at the bit to be released from the Time-Out Punishment of being an adult. She wants to get covered in mud (although grown-up me WILL have to clean that mess up), wear a pink tu-tu over her jeans to the store, and run around the house naked way after bedtime, eating cookies and belting out random Disney tunes! OH! And play with fingerpaints! God, I miss fingerpaints! Grown-up me has stuff to do that makes little me clap her hands and giggle happily! Okay, we still have to cook dinner and stuff, but maybe once in awhile dinner can be Spaghetti-o's and Swiss Cake Rolls!

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About The Author

I grew up in rural North Carolina. When I was only nineteen, I moved away and became a military wife. My only aspiration at that tender time in my life was to create an adult life that "fixed" all of the "injustices" of my childhood. Secretly, however, I wanted to reach for the sky! I wanted to be a writer and find ways to "save the world" (my mother used to say, "You have Save the World Syndrome".). Mostly, I wanted to matter.

Since then, I have learned to reach well beyond what I ever dared to think was possible. I've learned not to allow fear to stop me from whatever future I want to create!

What keeps me grounded? My Tribe! What provides the wind beneath my wings? A well of reserves filled with unstoppable passion!

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