Take my hand and we'll make it; I swear
Currently listening: To as much Cheap Trick as my MP3 program can find me.Oh my goodness. You don't realize how good a band is until you unleash one song, get curious, and find more. I ADORE Cheap Trick. I believe they're rumored to be the first 'punk-rock' band? It amazes how I figure out these little facts. I'm full of little random tidbits of information that totally irrelevant to anything anyone'll ever need, but I have them! For instance, Lori and Kristina came up to me today to asked if 'stacked' could be a chest reference. Well, of course it can. Had no one ever seen/heard of the show "Stacked" with Pamela Anderson? She works in a book store, and is... stacked.
I've become a romance junkie again. All while reading Catcher in the Rye, White Oleander, and doing homework, I've managed to buy myself 11 new books from the used book store, plus 9 more off amazon.com for 40 bucks (plus shipping and handling! I know.) Well, I've already finished 5 from the used book store, and those are 400 pages each. You do the math and realize how much I read. And how much I wish I could live in one of the stories I read. Because I'm a romantic with a heart aching for love. Except I don't think I could be in one of those books because they're all so stereotypical and I'm really not. I'm crazy and wild and I wouldn't be any other way. Maybe one of them contemporary ones. Or something.
My dad came in and started 'playing' around with me while sing-songing that I've got good grades. What I don't think he realizes the 'playing' was actually sharp pinches and I have little pinch marks on my arm now. You'd think after almost 17 years he'd realize I'm a little more sensitive than that. Blah. .... I'm almost 17. Does it hit you when you turn 17? 18? 19? That you're growing up? Or do you just slide into it, like I did with driving? It's shocking to think about now, but I have friends who are 17... soon to be 18. What does that mean? I mean, we're growing up and it seems like we're moving so fast. It's kind of scary.
How do you face it? Or do you just go along with it and let things happen as they do? I suppose so. It's something to think about. I wish I could become a novelist.
posted by Sarah at Friday, September 22, 2006
2 Comments:
I believe people can stay kids forever. Most people just forget about it and then remember again when they have their mid life crisis. The happiest people you see are the ones who remain kid-like their entire lives.
Growing up is pretty scary... I think about that all the time... it wasn't as surprising, somehow, when people were turning sixteen and starting to drive and such, but now you hear people in your grade saying "I just turned seventeen" and you realize there are three syllables and nine letters in that number, and it's a pretty big number. And then you think, "Holy Lord. Seventeen."
It's so weird.
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