but at least i'm not doing it at 52, like the woman in this AP-yahoo article. good lord. but it may as well be. 30, 52 -- what's the difference, really?
the article is saying that our struggling economy is to blame for the lack of jobs, money, etc., and that's why so many people (e.g., ME) are moving BACK HOME AFTER THEY SPECIFICALLY MADE A PACT WITH A FRIEND IN HIGH SCHOOL (senior year, to be exact) THAT WE HAD THE RIGHT TO SHOOT EACH OTHER IN THE HEAD IF EITHER OF US WAS LIVING AT HOME PAST THE AGE OF 25. (well. i just hope i don't run into this friend while i'm living with my parents this summer. and waitressing full-time. and i hope she still doesn't support the NRA).
but honestly AP-yahoo writer: it's MY FAULT i'm moving home, not the economy's. most people have done smarter things with their money by now. i have NOT. most people can afford to be unemployed for a summer. NOT ME. the other people living with their parents? like me, they're also weird losers who have made poor financial decisions and are perhaps a little too close (emotionally, financially) to their families. (i, on the other hand, have separated myself geographically from my family for YEARS, because THEY LIVE IN THE TUNDRA, duh).
i honestly can't wait to get home for the summer! mostly because i can't wait to see all my mothers and sisters and brothers and dads and cousins and friends again. i love being around their energy so much.
so. i am slowly getting over the stigma of being 30 and living at home for the summer ... slowly. i don't know if that's good or not. but i have to get over it anyway.
THAT'S THE THING: there's a lot to just GET OVER, ANYWAY. get over it, me! (it's like i have to remind myself 500 times a week: "who cares what people think? who cares what you were supposed to have done? be happy for now. work to change what you can change.")
[sigh.] i'm trying.
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i really like that last part.
i would love to move to mn for a summer. hey, i won't be working this summer and if i'm handling motherhood well i can spend a good portion of the summer in mn, where i don't have to worry about my baby's insides cooking - like here in houston.
i don't think you should worry so much about what people think about staying with your folks for the summer, to me staying with tim and lauri for a summer would be so wonderful.
You need to look at it more like a vacation, or sabbatical. Not like moving back in with your parents even though you're 30. It's all semantics.
Hey, I moved back in with my parents when I was 32. With a husband and three children in tow.
Long story, really, involving me quitting a job to stay home with children, a kid with disabilities who needed to be in a different school district, selling a house in two days (two days, people!), trying to find a new place to live, deciding to build a house, blah, blah, blah...
So don't feel bad. We've all been in similar situations before. :-)
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