I've been documenting my life via diaries, journals, Diaryland, Blogger, Wordpress and now Squarespace since 3rd grade. No joke. For the most part I still have the locked Sanrio Diaries (yeah—like Keroppi and shit) and access to immature posts from 2002. So even if you're new to my life / this blog, I've been doing this for a long time.

I will not share my old urls cause as a whole they can be ridiculously embarrassing, but I will share the relevant and quality posts for Throwback Thursdays.

Hi-Five

Originally posted: December 21st, 2010

Note: I’m typing this at the Oakland Airport while I’m on my very-first business-related trip, thats grown business for you. My flight is delayed, and my entire trip is only a matter of 12-hours, but I’m lovin’ this opportunity.

I’ll be completely honest, sometimes I don’t grasp the fact that I’m a fully fledged adult. I get up to go to work, take two modes of public transportation, spend nine hours at my job, then turn back around and go home. There are a few moments during my daily routine where I feel I’m still a kid—playing house, playing grown-up. I have no idea why, I just do.

I’m constantly catching myself trying to remind myself of my reality. Maybe its because time moves so unbelievably fast? It felt like a second ago when I used to daydream of taking a vacation with my man, living in a house that wasn’t run by my parents, and buying $100 shoes. Someday, I always thought… Well folks, that day is here, its been here.

I know I’m not alone in this. I have friends with babies, with mortgages, with real responsibilities—but tell me they don’t feel like they just woke up to their lives overnight? Is it just me?

Who knows.

Hi-fives though. Hi-fives for being where we are and doing what we do, whether it be raisin’ babies or hustlin’ for that paper or extra degree. Hi-five.