How does time get away from you? It feels like in between trying to get through the pile of dirty laundry in my room and meeting work deadlines another month has just evaporated into thin air. My mom always says things like "Enjoy your youth because it goes by SO quickly!". This is usually followed by some sort of reflective look in my moms eyes of "days gone by" and then I start to feel my mortality. This sudden flash of my mortality rushing to my consciousness that I then subdue has been somewhat recent (read - the past 2-3 years). It now starts to sink in just-a-bit. Mom has always said this, but as a seventeen year old - it was more like - gee...I still have to pay more for a rent-a-car and I can't wait to get to college. Mortality was associated with Halloween and the Grim Reaper posters I'd see around. (Hmm...yes, me in my happy middle-class-America bubble.)  Now, it sets in just a bit. Granted, I'm still in my twenties, but nevertheless - I've got TMJ (I can't open my jaw without it popping), I threw my neck out twice in the past two weeks by doing heroic things like looking up from resting my head in my hand and stretching while in that space between sleeping and waking? My favorite? The way I eat DOES effect my day. Remember when you could live on coffee and cereal? Or for some - Coke and candy bars? Maybe I'm focusing on this because I worked out last night, must not have hydrated enough and now I've got a little headache. Man!  That would NEVER have happened in college! Heehee. I have now reached the official stage in life where I actually have to take care of myself. (Imagine that!) No more later nights during week days, no more "getting by" on cold cereal for dinner. Ah life was so much easier! Sure - I could be “irresponsible” - but I do feel its effects at work the next day.

How did the rollercoaster of time speed up so much? When I was in grade school - summer vacation was an eon. Now - just when they're setting out lawn chairs at Target it seems like the next day it is a back-to-school sale. Or - you blink and it is mid-August.

I was thinking about mortality and my "late youth" on my drive home yesterday. I started thinking things like "wow" am I living the stuff I'm going to reflect on with such longing as my mother does? So - THIS is IT. This is where I'll drift back to when I'm 65 and reading a book on the porch? Interesting.

I was never the one to subscribe to "these are the best years of your life" in high school. Folks were sad to leave. I wanted nothing more than to get out and move on to college. I was NOT missing those high school years. I couldn't wait for them to be finished. So maybe late twenties is the new "high school" - for those of you who just LOVED those teenage years.

Let me pose the question: To bloggers of all ages - when you think of the "best times" are they in memory? Are you looking forward to them? Perhaps your forties are the "new" late twenties? I'd be interested to know. 

Well - what happened in that "blink" before it was August? Well, I did note that I've gone thru a lot of changes earlier. That included buying a new car. Well, I finally sold the other one (attached pic) and I've almost unpacked and organized everything in my "new-ish" condo. I'm still trying to find the "sofa of my dreams" and I had a MAJOR deliverable at the end of the month. 5 soccer games, 1 Mariners game, 1 trip to Portland and I've ALMOST beat Jade Empire on the Xbox....

BLINK!.....Is it September?