Day #96/365- When Did I Grow Up And How Can I Make It Stop?

     There are a few times each year that I ask myself, "When did I grow up and how can I make it stop?" This questions usually enters my mind when something is aggravating my nerves regarding something "grown-up."  Now, I am obviously a grown-up, but I still consider myself relatively new to being one.  I still find myself learning and growing in most aspects of adulthood each and every day. 
     Take today for instance.  I had a coupon from my wonderful friends at Toyota ::insert sarcasm:: for a free oil change and car wash.  They sent the coupon back when they were going through the sticky pedal/floor mat car crisis as a way to keep us loyal followers coming back.  So, I waited in the boring, gray, waiting room listening to the boring television that was blaring the news loud enough for the people in their 80's to hear, for about an hour.  The little Toyota man finally came to get me and I was thinking, "Yeah!  I got my oil changed and the car is washed.  Life. Is. Good."  NOT!!!  He proceeded to come into the waiting room and sit down next to me.  For those of you who have a husband to do this mundane task for you, I will tell you that it is NEVER a good sign when they come in and sit down.  It is like code for "your car is dying."  Sure enough, yet again, Cam the Camry was on her death bed.  She had sprung a leak, which was going to cause her to overheat and blow up.  That description is what I took out of him saying, "The water pump is leaking, which will eventually cause the car to overheat and wreck the engine and you should probably get this fixed within the next month."  If you have experienced the "Your car is dying" discussion, then you will also know that fixing a part on your car, pretty much any part, is equivalent to buying three or four Coach handbags.  And trust me, I would SO much rather be going to the Coach outlet right now than dishing over the money for a stupid water pump. Grrrr!
     So I guess an experience like today makes me ask the "When did I grow up" question because these are the kinds of days they don't prepare you for when you become an adult.  Many of you moms are probably reading this and thinking, "Just wait until you have kids- now that's money!"  Well, I don't have kids and may never get to so for now, my worries are a bit different than those of a mom. Here's what I know for sure. They don't tell you that you will spend endless time waiting in a really boring, loud room just to leave feeling really depressed.  They don't tell you that instead of buying new shoes, clothes and handbags you will have to spend your hard earned money on all this "stuff" you really don't want to buy but have to buy because it is necessary.
     I am at such a weird crossroads in my life.  I am no longer in my twenties, which was an age where you were still finding yourself and getting your life together.  I feel like now that I am thirty, I have to just suck it up and realize this is all part of being an adult. I guess what I am trying to tell myself is that I HAVE grown up and there is no way to make it stop.  And making this realization, as depressing as it is for me, is the Sunnyside for today.  It may not be my most positive message, but sometimes facing reality and being honest with yourself is positive because it is necessary.  "Life is never a straight line, it is full of twists and turns.  The way to lead a happy life is not to avoid them but to embrace them; to find the happiness in them." (Warren T. Vanderven)  Okay Mr. Vanderven, I will do just that.  I am "finding happiness" in the fact that the Toyota people will fix my car and I will still have a car to drive.  I will then "embrace" my newly fixed car and the mechanic (only if he's cute and not covered in oil) who made it all happen.  How's that?