Being a grown-up isn’t as fun as I thought it woul…
admin January 24th, 2007
Being a grown-up isn’t as fun as I thought it would be…
Remember how, when you were a kid, being a grown-up seemed like the best thing EVER? You could stay up all night if you wanted to, you could eat anything you wanted (and NOT eat anything you wanted also)…in short, you could be your own boss! And when you were a teenager, it was the same thing only with slightly different privileges: you could stay out all night, you could go out with whomever you chose, etc. Even though all that is now true, being a grown-up is somehow not the exhilerating experience I thought it would be. :-p
Not only did I pay my first round of property taxes this month (check cleared and everything! Woohoo!), but I just called the heating and cooling company that advertises in the association newsletter for a quote. The woman was very pleasant and straightforward: I’m probably looking at $2,300 – $2,600 to do both the furnace and the air conditioner. It’s not nearly as bad as I’d been afraid it would be, though that’s not a firm quote – she has to send someone out to actually look at the situation. Fortunately, though, they’ll do quotes on Saturdays, so I scheduled an appointment for before vacation. I asked about financing, but she said that in all honesty it was for people with bad credit, that the lowest APR was about 18%, and that I’d be better off using a Visa or Mastercard.
Right now I really miss the days when my father was the one who had to worry about things like that. But in all seriousness, thank God for my home and my adulthood, even though it is expensive and un-fun!
