A blog by any other name...

Last Sunday, I became an adult. You may be asking how I accomplished this. Trust me, I ask myself that every day, too. Well, I bought a lawnmower. That's right. A nice, red lawnmower from Lowe's Home Improvement. I mean, how else does someone become an adult now-a-days?

At first I thought working at my first big-kid job made me an adult...except that didn't turn out so well. However, I am very happy to report that my second big-kid job is a huge success. I love it here. Everyone is so nice and supportive, and I am already learning so much about the vast world of communications and marketing. I guess Erin said it right. School never teaches you everything you need to know. You aren't truly ever prepared for the real world, but all of a sudden, there it is. In your face. Yelling.

Oh, sorry. Back to the lawnmower. Okay so I was driving back from a weekend at my house with the boy. I'm in the process of moving in with him (scary, right?) and his lawnmower broke a few weeks ago. He had been borrowing one from a friend of his, but it was electric, required you to plug it in, and came with a green cord. Really? Who thinks of these things? 'Oh, I think I'll create a lawnmower with the cord the same color as grass. That'll throw them off.' Fail. So as we're driving, I suggested that instead of stressing out about it, we should just invest in a new one. Fall is still leaving the grass growing beautifully into weeds in the backyard, and if we were going to be having any people over to see the house, I felt as though a nice yard was sort of a selling point. Plus, I come from the mountains. Yards are my thing.

So we stop by Lowe's on our way home, and thanks to my handy-dandy iPhone app for Lowe's, we already had the lawnmower we wanted picked out before we walked in the door. The whole process took less than 15 minutes. It was awesome.

So, there you have it. My first adult purchase was a lawnmower, and I think that it is going to be the start of something wonderful.