“adults and how to be one”

Max updated his facebook profile the other day, and while those things tend to be rather tongue-in-cheek (my current interests, I believe, include “really old bangers” and “girls who eat their feelings”) there is a lot of truth in that third interest. 2009 will be the first year that Max and I have to be real adults all year long. We did OK in 2008- we made rent, we took responsibility for the life of one mangy beast, we skated along happily. But 2009 will be different! We are REAL PEOPLE now. We are keeping the apartment clean, doing our dishes, writing thank you notes, looking for new jobs. I am researching health insurance. We are planning our first European vacation! These are all little things, but I guess all you have to do to be an adult is keep the little things in order. It’s not so hard, it’s just not always awesome.
The wireless internet we were stealing stopped working so today we decided to do another real person thing, which is to order and start paying for our own internet. Lacking the internet, this process was a little more complicated than I expected.