So, anyway, I am now almost officially done with my second week of intentional responsible living! *Give or take a weekend* Week two has definitely gone much better than week one. It helps that people are no longer trying to buy me food for my birthday! Sure, when you're younger, the more partying the better! But now that I'm "old" I was less appreciative of multiple days of reminding my how I've wasted another year being lame and alone. I don't recommend starting to religiously use a calorie counting app during your birthday week. The reality is SCARY!!
But I carry on! And I find checking items off my list is very motivating. I feel good about myself when I am able to check of most the items at the end of the day. Yes, I haven't gotten them all everyday - life gets busy you know. But thinking about that check sheet really stays with me when, say, I'm in line at Starbucks and the blueberry scones are tempting me. Plus, it's much more pleasing to just floss and put on lotion at the end of the day, so I can check those off my list, rather than feel guilty and lazy about it the next day. Those seriously take 5 minutes! :)
Of course, I don't want this blog just to be about the bad things, or what needs worse. I of course need to remember what keeps me awesome. As I said at the start, I would call myself completely irresponsible. Here are some things that make me a great adult:
1. I eat vegetables - okay, not as often as I probably could. And I swear I couldn't tell you what kale tastes, or even looks like, but I like vegetables. And I have even been very good at going to the farmers market on Sundays to get fresh veggies. Plus, I support local growers! Wins all around.
2. I pay for my own place - I feel like this is a double win because (1) I don't live off my parents, and (2) I actually pay my rent every month on time.
3. In fact, I pay all my bills, on time! - If there is one thing I am most proud of as an adult, it's my budgeting and finances (if I forget I owe student loans *shudders*). Not only do I pay all of my bills on time (usually hella early), but I was able to pay down $10k+ of credit debt from my poor college/grad student days in little over 1.5 years. I owe it all to this amazing thing I call Microsoft Excel. A former coworker of mine used to joke my motto was "there's a spreadsheet for that!" and so of course, I have a finances spreadsheet. And at the end of each month, I pay all of next months bills, and get an oddly nerdy feeling of accomplishment when paying my bills. Plus, I keep a check book registry, because my momma taught me well! :)
4. I type (mostly) full sentences when I text - let's be real, you hit a certain age when you should just use adult language. And thanks to autofill, it doesn't even take that long! After having to use the key pad for texting in the Nokia age, nowadays is cake!
5. I show up places on time - And by on time, I mean early is on time, and on time is late. If you say 1pm, I'll be there 12:50. If I say 1pm, and you're there 1:15, bet that I am judging you!
6. I have this weird skill, it's called manners - I just don't get how more people don't have manners. It just makes the world easier. And I feel good when I have manners to service workers, who get sadly pleasantly surprised by someone being super nice, and saying thank you.
7. Hell, I even have common sense - this one is like extra credit, or bonus points, or something, because I know a LOT of adults who don't have common sense. I thank my mom for this one too. With as smart, and as lost in my head, as I can get, I could have easily gone really street stupid. So thanks mom!
8. I am cleanly-ish - true, I don't always take care of my dirty dishes right away. And sometimes the only difference between my clean clothes and my dirty clothes is the location of the pile on the floor, but I think over all I am much more clean than not. And I definitely get into the cleaning mode quite often. Plus, I am really good at cleaning. Only hoping to exchange this skill for a man who can cook, because I am really more of a cleaner.
9. My work ethic rocks! - To say my work is anything but great would be a terrible, low self-esteem type falsehood. And people would not agree w/ such a statement. Honestly, I just take pride in my work, whether it was in school or now with my career. I believe actions speak louder than words, and my character is my destiny. I have a lot of talent, so it's unfair to the world and myself not to make the best of it. I feel like Spiderman, w/ great power comes great responsibility, only my powers aren't cool superhero powers.
10. I am a nice person - Obviously another bonus quality, because being an adult could mean you don't have to be nice. Or you won't necessarily get in trouble for not being nice. But I feel like you should just hit a point in life where being negative (in it's many personality traits) to others on purpose just stops being worth the energy. I am not really sure what actually catches flies, but I catch more people w/ niceness.
So, that was fun. Maybe when week 3, 10, 25 comes around and I need something to perk me up, I can come back to this list. I am sure there are other things, but 10 seems just like a perfect place to stop. Plus, in this day and age, readers have short attention spans, and can barely make it through lists (let's not even talk of long prose!). So, if you are still reading this, you can add "has good attention span" to your list. Or at least "is a good friend for reading crappy blogs." I will leave you now to revel in your awesomeness. :)
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