Grown-up Stuff

I would really like to return to being a kid. Lately it seems like I have a whole lot of grown-up stuff going on, problems to solve, difficult questions to answer. I remember being a kid, and I was one of those kids who thought my problems were actually big problems and I'd get annoyed with grown-ups who did understand how big my problems were. Well, I know now with the benefit of many more years of life behind me than I had then that the things I worried about were little and stupid.

One of those annoying grown-up things I'm dealing with is health insurance and prescription drug coverage. It's not like I picked the drug. I'd rather there not be a need for the drug. But there is. And it's not covered. Really?

And at work there's this thing that should have been taken care of last school year, but it wasn't, and so now I have to deal with it. It wasn't my mistake that it didn't happen. But now it's my problem. Got to love that. At least when you're a kid other people's problems don't automatically fall in your lap and become your problems. Well, they didn't for me anyway because I have awesome parents.

I handled many things along these lines today. I got a lot done. I feel like a real grown-up now. Just what I wanted so desperately about 20 years ago. Now I want to trade adulthood back for some innocence and simple problems.

I'm still floating through the Brahms Requiem in my head. I love it.