twenty-seven

i'm a bit late acknowledging it, but i just turned 27 on monday. i think i was probably born around 9pm at night, so on the exact moment i was in the company of 5 of my closest friends laughing it up at p.f. chang's chinese bistro. i was pretty worried for a minute that no one would show up. and then i was a little concerned that only 5 people showed up. but then i realized that these 5 people were the main ones i wanted to see! (there are others who i wished could have been there, but they obtained permission to be absent in advance. lol)

well, i don't feel much different. i don't think i look different. but that's because i see myself every day and don't notice the gradual change.

but i do notice some kinda change.

like the fact that i've been more interested in things that regard parenting and fatherhood than before, and reading books on homeownership and money management... and actually implementing the tactics. i'm thinking about career and future and blah blah blah. this is all devolving into a blurred SecureHorizons Life Insurance commercial.

did i mention that i can't stop listening to artists like take 6 and bobby mcferrin?

there was a time when i rejected that as grown folks music. now, i'm growner, and i'm lovin' it like whoa... where have you been all my life.

nonetheless, there's always been a part of me that likes to jump up and down and cheer when he gets excited, that gets disappointed when someone breaks there word, and that always wants to believe the best even when its looking like things are not hot. that's my inner child, i suppose.

i know other people who are "growner" and still have their inner child. :)

i think i'd want to date and marry someone like that where we can go to each other when we don't really want to be adults that day. the little girl in her can walk over next door and ask the little boy in me if i can come out and play. and i'll always say yes.

at least i hope i can always say yes. 27 and counting.