Friday night I went to the Jazzhaus to watch a member of church sing with her band, Coversmith. It was great fun and Coversmith was amazing. I had never seen them perform before, but I got to see them debut some new songs (they are a cover band, btw). The new songs were just as awesome as the ones they had done before, but they were also songs that had been more recently released. And as they began to sing "I believe in a thing called love" my mind flashed back to Christmas 2003, which I spent in Rome during my time studying abroad. Could it really have come out 9 years ago? Was I really on study abroad 9 years ago?
I let it drop.
Then Sunday, I walked into the youth room for confirmation and the two young ladies who had already arrived were talking about getting on facebook for the first time (they had both just turned 13).
"You know, I started using facebook when it first came out my senior year in college...it was just for college students back then"
I received the same blank stare that I got when I mentioned to that class that I didn't get my first cell phone until I was in college...either I was lying...or I'm that old (when you're 13, 28 can seem old, I have been alive twice as long as they have).
But I'm not old! I'm still a year and 3.5 months away from 30. So, technically, I'm still 61 years and 3.5 months away from old (though I hesitate to say this because I know quite a few folks in their mid to late 90's who are anything but old...old is really just a state of mind). As I say this, however, there are many things that I enjoy now that I didn't when I was 13...or even 25, for that matter. For instance, last night Chris and I spent a very enjoyable evening staining the first piece of our new patio furniture. Last Tuesday, I spent a lovely hour creating a baby garden with two tomato plants, a basil plant, and a rosemary plant...I'm contemplating seeing if I can also get some lettuce to grow. I've also been plotting how to make the patio area of our back yard more attractive. Since when are these activities super fun? Apparently it became fun in the very same time frame that spending 6 hours deep cleaning my kitchen and bathroom became something I found enjoyable (I give a lot of credit to the 80's music I was listening to while doing that...because I'm pretty sure that this was a fluke and it's not going to happen again for a while). I don't do these things, I'm not a very domestic type of person...or at least, I wasn't until recently (this is not saying I'm a dirty person...I clean, I just haven't enjoyed it until now).
The really cool thing about humans is that evolution affects our personalities and our habits as much as it affects our physiology (i.e. wisdom teeth are no longer necessary for our survival, so more and more people are being born with fewer and fewer wisdom teeth). So the me that hated getting up in the morning now enjoys having breakfast and a cup of coffee, while catching 20-30 minutes of the today show, before getting ready for the day. It's not about getting older, it's more about perspective and what works for you...for all I know, I this could be a brief phase and I'll go back to hitting the snooze 5 times a day next month.
Stats:
Weight - Lost 1 pound! I won't be reporting on this again for a while, I've been banned from even looking at my scale for 6 weeks...and I'm fine with that.
Miles - 30
Updates - adjusted myfitnesspal to reflect a much more realistic expectation of my daily caloric intake, now there isn't nearly as much red on the calendar (this happens when you go over on calories)
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