"I am 16 going on 17, innocent as a rose...."

I turn 27 at the end of the month....and I feel like I'm fixing to turn 17!  Apparently they're calling what I'm experience a "Thrisis" - a crisis for 30 year olds.  So many of my generation are having to move home after college, grad school, etc and so many are struggling with their careers, finding themselves, watching others get married and have babies, etc, that CNN finally gave it a title.  Where were you two years ago, CNN, when I started having this issue!? Haha!  Even though I still have my down days, it is nice to know that there are millions of kids my age going through the same crisis of identity.  It makes me more and more proud of the path I'm taking (which has gotta be about the longest and most winding-est road ever!) because I know when I'm in my 30's and older I will be all the more proud that I had my struggles and learned my lessons on my own, on my time, in my own way.  Part of me can't wait to grow up, and the other part feels like such a kid again!

Speaking of, you guys all have to know that song from The Sound of Music, right?  Well, it's below if you don't.  But I totally feel like on Nov 29th I'm going to turn 17.  Why, you ask?  Well, because I am so uber excited about Harry Potter (comes out FRIDAY!).  I get giddy over things like Robbie Williams performing with Take That again, or a new catchy pop song on the charts, or going out to the bars on a Saturday night!  (Though this comes and goes...because last Saturday I was responsible and dead to the world by 10pm.  Blew way too much money at IKEA for the new apartment.)  And I've decided I'm going to embrace the 17 year old inside me.  So what if I'm really 27, about to purchase my first car (on my own), repay student loans, move into a new apartment, and go 100% independent for the first time every (aka: becoming an adult finally haha)??  I don't want to get rid of the kid inside!  She makes life fun!!  Just because I enjoy opera and classical music now, doesn't mean I can't listen to JLS or Motley Crue.  Yeah, so I have a car payment.  That doesn't mean I can't still watch a Disney movie on ABC Family on a Sunday afternoon.

Yep...this inner 17 year old is gonna be hanging around for a while I think.  And that's absolutely fine with me :)