First Day of the Rest of My Life

Maybe it's the depreciation of education, the recession, the wide spread acceptance of adult cartoons, pop culture; maybe it's just that my mom doesn't charge me rent - I don't know what it is- but I, like so many my age, am Maturity Impaired.  It's a serious problem.  I haven't had any adult-type milestones in all of my soon to be 24 years.  I'll be graduating from university at the end of summer, and I don't think I can put the real world off any longer. I'm on a mission that 24 will be the year that I get transformed into Adult Self, and it is probably going to be a hilariously arduous road. So, it might as well be documented for future Maturity Impaireds, or for anyone else who remembers or is going through the awkward stumblings into adulthood.  It's a bit of an experiment really.  I'm trying to find out what does work and what doesn't, and what it means to be adult in a world of perpetual childhood.  Hopefully my soon to be found experience will be useful to someone.

So let it begin!

I'll be keeping a list of things to know/have/be as I come across them that will make me a certified adult.
 Today is #1:

                      Adult's know what the hell they're doing...mostly.

To get this going, I've purchased a book for organizing personal life, career and finances.  I can't wait until I have any of those things! In the mean time, I'm smushing (no, not that kind of smush) the week by week guide into the next ten weeks, so that I'm all organized and ready for 24 and adult life.

This week it's getting a day planner, making goals, and other good intentions ripe to go awry. This should be fun.

If you want to grow up along with me, the book is Organize Now! Your Money, Business & Career by Jennifer Ford Berry. It actually looks pretty good so far.

Well, I feel older and more refined already. Catch you later, er, I mean, And a good day to you,

                                   -jo