Haha, I’ve never even seen Babylon 5, but I did a quote search for the word January and that came up, with today’s date and everything. Coincidence? I think not.
But to the point….
Things I have learned so far in January of 2009:
1. I am a grown up. I can tell you this with confidence because over the last two weeks, our heater has gone out (see below), my car threw up while driving 75 mph on I65 and then spent two days at the shop (see Twitter), and our roof leak has returned and has increased in both temperament and size since its last visit (see facebook). Also, as we are on the cusp of likely starting to stock up on crib sheets and cloth diapers, our dryer has started making new noises. Not good noises. Gross, scraping, loud noises. So much for things happening in threes. But I am going to deal with one thing at a time. The prospect of either spending thousands of dollars to repair my car or (ugh) financing a new one, installing a new roof, and having to buy a new dryer has not yet sent me into a torrent of tears or a nervous breakdown. This proves that I am a grown up. Officially.
I do reserve the right to rescind that title should the urge to cry and throw a tantrum becomes too strong to ignore.
2. Taking a picture every day is harder than it looks. I’m eight days in and I’ve almost forgotten 7 times. I think I’ll have a lot of ‘photo taken on blah blah date at 11:26 pm” notes on my flickr pages.
3. Having survived the last four weeks and the crummy weather we’ve had, I think I could actually live in Germany without losing my mind.
4. I’m equally relieved and disconcerted that I’m not experiencing most of the things my pregnant friends are experiencing. I also look pregnant and I think I’m not supposed to this early, but the people that regularly see me naked back me up on this one (my harem, my body paint artists, the students in the Human Form sculpture class I teach and model for in my bedroom, and my husband). It’s just that I’ve lost weight in certain places and gained it in my belly. Maybe I’m retaining water, maybe it’s insulation, but I look like I’ve got a baby up in there. And I kind of love it. How far do you have to be before you’re allowed to start sticking that shit out and be proud of looking like you, and only you, keep Anheiser Busch in business?
5. That last one wasn’t really something I’d learned. It’s just a thing. Here’s something I have learned for real – how to use the word obsequious in a sentence. ‘Obsequious’ just sounds better than ‘kiss ass’, doesn’t it?