People are growing up all around me!

People are growing up all around me...INCLUDING ME!

I started noticing these 'grown up' changes about 6 months ago with my GF Carrie, who got married in September also announced around then suddenly she was preggers! Yes, beautiful Carrie is expecting (she's actually quite big now, due on 3/24, and looking beautiful). Then this last week I found out that cutey Moon is also expecting...a Labor Day baby! Now we're gonna have the cutest little pregnant asian chick running around the 16th floor at Nordy.com all summer. Then after all this baby stuff all around me, I get a call from my BFF Heidi vacationing in Paris...after 3 years her BF Andy proposed! Under the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs de l'Essey! MH HEIDI HO IS GETTING HITCHED!!! YEAH! It's about time Andy. LOL. And I also can't forget my other GF in Toronto who also just got engaged, and she's 50! (sorry Jewels but you are on the other end of the spectrum, to make my point).

So when I say 'growing up' I just mean major life changes with my friends who are in their thirties or fourties. Alot of my close friends just seem to be where I am mentally and/or financially...been through those serious relationships before, or the shared house before, etc...but back to being single and trying to figure it out in their 30's and 40's. Always feeling like their there and then have to start over again. It is the state of the 21st century, like the gals in 'Sex in the City'...and then there is me on the cusp of 40 myself... I had the great 7 year relationship with Terry in the 90's, with the house, and the life, and I learned so much about me and about life. Then the 5 years with Zac in the early 2000's and again learned so much more about me and the world...Zac took me to that next level by living outside of the US...but here I am again starting over with Noel...

I am excited but freaking out that sooner than later I may be a home owner with Noel. We went out again with John, our realator, to look at townhouses in Ballard and Noel is seriously considering making an offer on a cute one on 58th just a 5 minute walk from the heart of Market Street. GULP! So then we went to Terry to talk about the morgage and what we really can afford, with the principle and downpayments and adjustable yadah yadahs? Finally we ended up at Best Buy pricing out stackable washer/dryers, fridges, and flat screen HDTV's...I am so excited, 'I'm growing up too' (again), but MY HEAD IS SPINNING. The boyfriend, the cohabitations, the home owner responsibilities...I need to do this, I want to do this....I CAN DO THIS!

Stay tuned...babies, and weddings, and homes in the near future!!!