My back? In knots that shrink me to well below my five feet and one inch. I crouch instead of sit, skulk instead of stride, pout instead of -- well, I always pout.
I'm tired.
And am always counting down the days to something. Chicago in 21 days -- hey, that's less than a month! One day to a midterm. Two days until I get another midterm back. Three days until I take another midterm. Four days until the weekend -- Aaron's getting his first BIG FAT GIANT paycheck on Friday and has promised to take me horseback riding on Sunday. Things are getting better already and we have money to thank. Thanks, money! You make life so much easier and simultaneously, so much harder.
No, just easier.
Life is more fun when you can dream realistically.
I missed the deadline for filling out FAFSA stuff and caught my mom paying bills when I told her. She freaked out on me, yelling about middle class screwed this and lower class lazy-asses that and upper class selfishcakes (I'm paraphrasing here). I fall into a nice little tax bracket that gives me oodles of money back because of my IRA. My mom falls into one of the worst tax bracket and, just because she got married, the government is all, "I'll take that thank YOU!" Which sucks when you have four kids in college and nary a FAFSA application in sight.
(Also, I'm never getting married. I'll have a nice little spiritual ceremony, but as far as the government is concerned my money is mine and his money is his.)
Does it not seem like our government is a little socialist? A little too take from the rich and give to the poor? You take care of us until you're too old and then we'll take care of you unless you made enough money to save up and then no benefits for you because the population is decreasing? Do I have any idea what I'm talking about? No. But I wouldn't need government money for school if the government would let my parents keep some of their money.
Here's a secret to losing weight: weigh yourself right after dinner and then again the next morning. You'll have magically lost three to five pounds overnight! Oblivious self-esteem ahoy!