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We feature an illustration by the wonderful Mari Andrew every Friday morning. Here’s today’s. :)
P.S. Your true self, and a pop quiz.
Becoming an Adult
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hahahahaha I have to google the food poisoning thing like, all the time. Why is our generation so not good at adulting?
So spot on. I’d also add ‘knowing how to respond to a salesperson who asks if you need anything in a not totally akward way’. (I just earned that merit badge this week ;))
Haha September doesn’t have 31 days…
In the “not-an-adult” category, I didn’t realize my inspection was up on my car. Unless someone is going to like come to my house and tell you, you better believe I don’t look at that little sticker. So tomorrow, one day after expiration, it’ll be getting inspected. And an oil change because I never remember those either.
Wait, how do you clean cast iron properly??
I am 80% adult, what a disappointment !!! ;)
33 and still using the rhyme ?
yep, still doing it at 72!
1/6. getting close! ha.
the bathroom one is tough. I usually say “someone’s in here!” but that sounds like I’m talking about myself in third person. Or talking about someone else. hmmm.
Shoot! At 34 still not an adult….
Ugghhh we just visited my husband’s family and there wasn’t a lock on the bathroom door… my sister-in-law walked in on me twice(!), and my mother-in-law’s boyfriend walked in on me, too.
Each time, they knocked but didn’t wait for a response before opening the door. Whyyyyyy
Respectively, I was in the middle of saying “someone’s in here!” ” yep just a minute! ” and “no stop!!!”
By this metric, I am TRULY not an adult, despite having 3 kids haha! I always knew that though. One of my greatest epiphanies was discovering that I am just one of those people who always feels young and not quite ready.
I love this list and will add one I said out loud to my mom the other day: I keep postage stamps in TWO convenient places.
Sooo cute! So I’m NOT YET an adult… I knew it ahahah xx
Great illustration! Mines are : meeting my banker, having bought a dishwasher, and melting all the almost finished honey jars to make a big one!!! (I was so proud of this one! :) )
Yay, still not an adult!
Oh…… sometimes it’s hard being an adult.
Still forgetting groceries and using a trick to know when the month ends. Let’s say everyone needs to keep at least two things he doesn’t master to stay young!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL!!
Looks like I’m not going to be classed as a legit person any time soon hahaha
I had to laugh at the having a go-to response for the bathroom door knock. I was the running joke in my family growing up, because when I was on the loo and someone would knock, I’d panic that they were about to walk in, and just scream “TOILET!!!”
Every. Single. Time. ?
Those are all great! And so are the comments (as usual..)
In italian the answer at the knock at the bathroom’s door is: occupato, translation of “busy”. It turns out there’s no regular way of saying it in english? mindblowing! haha
Haha ! So relatable ! I always stock up on anything that is on sale; for example, Dove soap, tshirts etc.
Anyone else have to double check their calendar for 31 days in September? No? Just me okay….
I am now a mother, a partner and own my own home. However I will never be legit. Yay!!!!! :)
I will always need to recite the month rhyme, no matter how old I get.
Thank you for the reminder on not dishwashing cast iron.
And some of us don’t have the pantry space for stocking food :( Oh, I want a house…
Same I need the rhyme!!
So cute! I keep my dark chocolate stocked more than anything else- it’s all about priorities. Have a fabulous weekend.
XOXO, Amy
http://www.seriouseats.com/2016/09/how-to-clean-maintain-cast-iron-pan-skillet-cookware.html
Funny how many people believe you can’t use soap on a cast iron!
YES! I’ve sent this article to too many people.
Ok but what IS the perfect response to the dreaded bathroom knock? I’ve been wearing a lot of jumpsuits lately and find myself especially frantic (“SOMEONE’S IN HERE!!!!!!”) since I’m basically naked.
hahahahahaha, i know the feeling!
Never commented, but I feel compelled to help out anyone reading this so this is going to be my very exciting inaugural comment.
The best response is, “Just a minute!” There you go!
Bathroom knock: I always say “hi!” They get it.
Balancing 50 hours a week and house keeping makes me feel like an adult :) I pride myself on always having a spotless home. It’s my fox den. My cozy spot. It has to be *just so*, and I love it!
3.5/6 … pretty happy with that at 26 ?
100% real.
Oof. I will be a kid forever! 30 days has September, April, June….
Ha me too! And I noticed she’s got 31 drawn up for September in the illustration.
In Austria we don’t have a rhyme afaik but are taught at primary school to count it on our knuckles. Knuckle = 31 days, the den between the knuckles = less. You put your hands together with the knuckles of your pointer fingers in the middle side by side, starting with the knuckle of your left hand’s pinky as January =31, the den equals February =less = 28/29, the knuckle of the left ring finger= March = 31… and so on. Where the knuckles of the pointer fingers meet it is July and August and both have 31 days :-)
Do you know this trick?
It took me years NOT to take a quick look on my hands for the number of days a month has, haha.
I never even learned the rhyme….I’m hopeless!!
To commenter MM: here in the Midwest US, I learned the knuckle trick as a small child at school. Used it thereafter, if ever I’m not sure.
It’s very handy – no pun intended! ;)
Also midwestern, also using knuckles. 42. At this point I don’t expect to not use this trick ever in my life. Thank goodness I know left from right but that was a hand trick for years as well.
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