25 signs you have grown up

Not all true... but when have these lists ever been all true?

25 SIGNS YOU HAVE GROWN UP
1. Your houseplants are alive, and you can't smoke any of them.
2. Having sex in a twin bed is out of the question.
3. You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
4. 6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to bed.
5. You hear your favorite song in an elevator.
6. You watch the Weather Channel.
7. Your friends marry & divorce instead of "hook up" and "break up."
8. You go from 130 days of vacation time to 14.
9. Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as "dressed up."
10. You're the one calling the police because those %&@# kids next door won't turn down the stereo.
11. Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.
12. You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.
13. Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up.
14. You feed your dog Science Diet instead of McDonalds' leftovers.
15. Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.
16. You take naps from noon to 6 PM.
17. Dinner and a movie is the whole date instead of the beginning of one.
18. Eating a basket of chicken wings at 3 AM would severely upset, rather than settle, your stomach.
19. If you're a gal, you go to the drug store for ibuprofen and antacid,not condoms and pregnancy tests.
20. A $4.00 bottle of wine is no longer "pretty good stuff."
21. You actually eat breakfast food at breakfast time.
22. "I just can't drink the way I used to" replaces "I'm never going to drink that much again."
23. 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.
24. You drink at home to save money before going to a bar.
25. You read this entire list looking desperately for one sign that doesn't apply to you and can't find one to save your sorry old butt.

BONUS: When you find out your friend is pregnant you congratulate them instead of asking "Oh S*$# What Happened?"

Why do they always have to have drinking involved in them? Because I don't drink, does that make me 'ungrown up'? I don't get it.

the sun sets on the end of a season

That's a romantic title to say that for me, summer is pretty much over. This past week I have helped three people move into their dorms. Tomorrow I'm helping on a larger scale with people I don't know. By Monday, the school will be teeming with collegiates waiting to meet new friends, start classes, learn, sleep, and generally have a pretty good time.

No one goes to college thinking, "I am going to be antisocial with no friends and have zip fun while I'm here." Even people who are antisocial tend to find other antisocial people and hang out with them. Anyway- rambling...

My summer has had a variety of ups and downs attached to it. I feel like summer just started, and yet it's already thru and I'm heading back to classes. I'm looking forward to it, though. This may be my 'nerd' in me, but I get giddy over smelling new notebooks, and picking out folders, etc. One can never have enough black pens, right? on and on...

I figure I would put in one last blog before my schedule becomes hopelessly full (as it is bound to be because I am who I am and I fill my time in with people) and I never get around to journaling online for months at a time. If you don't know what I am talking about, take a gander at the dates of blogs in the past. I do a fairly good job for about a month and then it's hopeless for a month, two, or three. I won't deny it... blogging isn't on my priorities list. My apologies to those of you who actually read this. It just doesn't tend to be a high necessity.

It's closing in on 11pm and I have yet to even prepare for sleep, or tomorrow, or anything of that nature... Where is my bed? I think it's hiding under all of that stuff that needs to be put away.

Have a great night and a bright tomorrow!
Fitz

What a day!

Names may be changed for confidentiality purposes.... here's how my day went:

1:15am~ check on individuals; call in.
3:15am ~ check on individuals; call in.
5am~ Scott, what are you doing up?
5:30am~ Call in.
5:45am~ I hear Scott up but I'm staying on the couch until 6am... talking to God.
6am~ Find Scott... where is his clothes? Where is his brief? Oh no...
-clean up and change Scott.
-find Scott's brief and the trail of poo that escaped from it.
-get out the mop bucket and clean up the floors because Scott walked through the trail of poo.
6:15am~ Morning Ron. Please don't do that to your pillow. Time for a shower.
-Help Ron in the shower. Help Ron out of the shower.
6:30am~ What's for brekky? Praise God, it's just cereal.
7am~ starts med pass.
7:25am~ Carmen... Oh dear! How sick are you? That sick huh? Change the sheets. Get into the bathtub.
7:45am~ Nick! Please stop screaming... it's ok.
8am ~ Hi... please help!
8:10am~ Yes Duane... ALL of the meds...
8:30am~ finish med pass.
8:40am~ oh no, she's sick again? Back in the tub.
9am.... and the list goes on and on... needless to say, I had a pretty crappy day until I left at 11am!

Revelation 12:7-9

War broke out in Heaven. Michael and his Angels fought the Dragon. The Dragon and his Angels fought back, but were no match for Michael. They were cleared out of Heaven, not a sign of them left. The great Dragon—ancient Serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, the one who led the whole earth astray—thrown out, and all his Angels thrown out with him, thrown down to earth. (The Message)