Feeling like an adult

There's nothing like balancing a checkbook to make you feel like a grown-up. But there's nothing like maintaining a balance $2.74 off from the bank's record to make you feel like you really don't know what you're doing. I can't figure out where that money went, but part of me just wants to subtract it from my balance and keep going. Not grown-up. Definitely not grown-up behavior.

Today, B and I head to Arkansas to celebrate my sister's 22nd birthday. She is a little upset with me right now because I told her B and I would probably get married this year, which would be before she and her boyfriend (whom she's been dating for two years) do. Actually, she hung up the phone on me. We maintain that it makes sense for us to not wait since we are older, out of school and have good jobs. We are relatively secure, and it's not like we're dependant on our parents like some of Carole's peers who are getting engaged. Also, they're not engaged yet. I'm also 3.5 years older, but whatever.

Carole maintains that since she's the one with the longer relationship, she should be the first to walk down the aisle. Which is fine except that if B and I wait until Carole gets married, we'll have to wait two years ourselves. And in two years, I'll be 27, not 25. And 27 just seems really old to me.

So, anyway, any advice? I remember one of my college friends being perturbed with another friend for considering a marriage the summer after our junior year. However, then the couple broke up instead, so they kind of canceled out the irritation. I'm not really sure if Carole has a legitimate reason to be mad at me, but it doesn't change the fact that her feelings are real.

Sigh.

On another note, a co-worker sent me this video recently because I watch and read anything having to do with Mike Huckabee. Because I heart Huckabee. And aforementioned co-worker knows that.


For good measure, I did a Google news search for stories about this particular convention and all I found were angry blog posts about how Huckabee is calling for a theocracy in the United States blah blah violating first ammendment rights blah blah we hate Jesus. Basically, nonsense. No legitimate news on the speech at all.

BUT. I am pretty sure Mike Huckabee was NOT trying to endorse a theocratic state but was, in fact, alluding to the fact that he supports a Constitutional amendment defining marriage and supports overturning Roe v. Wade.

I am FOR neither of those two things, mostly because I feel like the best thing to do is maintain the status quo. Don't make things any worse, and don't try to make things any better because no one can agree what "better" means. But also? Do not take all my money and do institute the fair tax, which actually IS fair to everyone. I'm just sayin'.

Yeah, I vote with my pocketbook. I am a selfish American. Sue me.