10 ways to tell you are officially "adulting"!

Okay, so you are finally over the age of 18, you're out on your own, possibly have a family of your own in some capacity but are you truly "adulting"? Well let's narrow down a list of things that indicate that you are effectively "adulting".

1. You get excited about the weirdest things. Things that in your younger years may not have excited you. Things like a new kitchen appliance, your license plates for your car finally arriving in the mail, a new sitcom finally coming on, or just having a day where your to-do list is non-existent, or finally putting away your clean laundry after its grace period of pile sitting.

2. Your idea of fun means hanging out at home, it may not even be your home, it could be your close friend's home. Never the less, not having to put on real pants is exciting to you. Why because if someone is truly your friend they wont care if you are in yoga pants, sweat pants, or even pajamas. They only want your time and presence. And chances are they are wearing the same exact thing.

3. Sleep... Sleep... Yes sleep becomes one of the most important things in your daily routine. I don't mean sleep that involves rolling into bed at 3 am just to roll back out of it at 6 am like nothing ever happened. I mean that getting at least 8 to 12 hours of sleep is vital to your existence and if you don't get that much its noticeable. We are not talking about noticeable like puffy eyes and dark circles, we are talking about noticeable in a way that resembles shrinking away and hissing at the light like a vampire until you have had your first sip of coffee or morning wake up juice of choice. Noticeable in a way that if anyone tries to talk to you before said drink of coffee or wake up juice would result in a death glare that makes a gypsy curse glare look like child's play. Or for all the "MOMBIES" that are seriously sleep deprived, its noticeable as in you put your underwear on over your pants and your shirt is on backwards and upside down, while wearing two different shoes.

4. Your medicine cabinet now looks like a mini drug store. You have supplements for everything that could possibly be wrong with you, you are on so many prescribed medications that it looks like you are running a pharmacy in your bathroom. You have supplements that span the entire alphabet and are for the most random things, that in the past you would have never considered taking something like that.

5. Your car radio is programmed to play the classic stations. Your car is programmed to play all the radio stations that are considered "classic music genres" Ya know classic rock ( which is just rock music that is at least 10 years old), soft rock (which plays music from when you were in junior high or musicians like Jewel or Elton John or Sheryl Crowe).

6. You have no clue what the latest trends are ( the mustache thing). You are so out of tune with the latest pop culture trends and have to ask the younger generations or google what it means. For example, over the last decade mustaches have become a must have in all photo booth props at every party of the year. However, if you are "adulting" you have no clue why that is a thing. You see a trend and question how it became a thing. Such as the duck lips in photos. Seriously, HOW DID THAT GET STARTED?

7. White boards and calendars are an essential part of your life. If you are officially "adulting" you have dry erase boards and calendars in your home, that by the end of the month look like something out of an Egyptian Pyramid with heiroglyphics that only you can decipher, while the rest of the world has no clue what it means. Yet somehow in all that chaos you are still able to keep track of everything and everyone, except maybe when the last time you had a visit from aunt flo' or showered was. Which brings us to number 8 on our list.

8. Finally getting to shower for longer than two seconds is exhilarating. Finally getting to take a nice long hot shower is the most magical moment of your life. Its like Disney World for the adult. All that grime, stress, stuck on muck from kids and life is somehow magically teleported to a far off fairytale land and you become human again. You can literally feel the air coming back in through your skin, as if you have grown another set of lungs, and life and vitality return to your body, only to be stripped away in a split second by the sound of the five year old banging on the bathroom door because they have to use the potty right away or the sound of your child under the crack of the door wondering when you are going to be done because well 10 minutes in your world is an eternity in theirs.

9. Grocery shopping has changed. Where you used to go after the name brands because they some how tested better, you are now buying every possible off brand, clipping coupons, and price matching just to save a few extra pennies. You strategically map out your grocery list by the aisle in the grocery store and are willing to go to multiple stores just to shop the sales. Grocery shopping has become a quest much like that of a battle strategy in war. You are the general, gathering intelligence, planning the attack strategy to get in and out as fast as you can. Especially if you have children with you because you want to avoid the stares, glares, and comments about the screaming banshee in the cart all because you wouldn't buy the paw patrol cereal or the unicorn mac n cheese. It doesn't matter if the Mac n cheese is name brand or store brand.. you know that no matter what, it all tastes the same when you throw hot dogs into it and slap it on the plate because well you're tired.

and last but not least...

10. Music volumes now bother you. The loud, ground pounding, heart stopping bass coming out of the speakers from your favorite music irritates you. You sit back and wonder why anyone needs to listen to music so loud and how you ever managed to handle. Heaven forbid you hear it at 3 am after you have finally gotten your toddler to bed for the sixth time that night. Only for them to sit back up again as if they have some how been resurrected like the living dead. Hell knows no wrath like that of a parent at 3 am who's child was woken up by the sound of loud music outside.

If you can relate to any of these, then you are officially adulting.