why growing up is un-fun...

i'm writing in all lower-case. this is serious. no time to use proper punctuation and grammar.

i hear my kids at school all the time saying things like " i can't wait to grow up" or "just wait til i graduate". i just want to shake them and say "no! stay little!!!!" sure, there are great things about getting older. there are things you can do as an adult that you can't do as a child. for instance, if want to go into my kitchen right now and squirt the cool whip directly into my mouth from the can, i can do that because a) it's my house and there's nobody here to judge, and b) i bought the cool whip, therefore i can eat it however i want. but when you grow up, there's bad stuff! there are bills and there's work and there are people that make your brain hurt. when you're little, people pretty much leave you alone and let you be little. you can play and have fun and as long as you're not psycho, people don't mess with you. things get complicated when you get old. relationships are difficult. your best friends can even mess with your head. it's aggravating. and when you get older, you start to lose people you care about. when you're a kid, in your mind, people live forever. they'll always be there. but then you grow up and have to deal with the fact that people don't live forever. and then you realize that you don't have forever either. it's depressing. seriously.

stephanie is quite glad that she doesn't have to go to work tomorrow. (un-fun grown-up activity that it is) perhaps i'll be in a better mood tomorrow.

blog. fail. i'll try to be happier later. =)