Time flies when you're having fun? Yes?

Natty's wedding is next weekend.

Do you remember this post? I wrote that over a year ago. What gives?

What the hell am I going to write in this post? I was going to go on a spiel about how I've changed in the past year, but I already write too much in that vein and it gets old (no pun intended). It feels all weird to think of my little sister being a Mrs., but now I realize that my approach is all wrong.

My parents were 25 and 27 when they got married. To child-me, "goingtowork" (all one word) was a vague and pompous undertaking (for adults only) mostly involving sitting at a computer while looking important. The word "marriage" resonated with maturity and legality and other boring old-people stuff.

Later on, in early adulthood (I guess I technically still fall into this category), I realized that child-me was more right than she thought - at least about work. ::smirk:: But I still hadn't grown out of thinking that a) I'm still a child and b) marriage is for boring old people. It's particularly astounding because I've witnessed some really fantastically immature people tying the knot, and I'm friends with several pairs of totally awesome not-boring-old-people marrieds that are way cooler than myself. For whatever reason, though, in the back of my mind, I still believed that they must know something I don't. They must've reached a level of maturity completely unrelated to coolness factor.

Now, I've come to a spectacular realization! I think it occurred sometime around when I was nosing through my parents' old papers. My mom and dad were just as young and scared as I am. They were just as inexperienced, just as nervous. There is no great Marriage Epiphany that automatically endows one with wisdom, extra patience, 10 lbs. of belly fat and an air of dullness. Marriage isn't a mold that spits out matronly, endlessly-complaining frigid women and put-upon, overweight golfer men. Maybe I'm a little bit behind the times, but perhaps marriage is about what you make it, not about what it makes you.

Natty and Pepper are totally bringing sexy back with this heah marriage. ;)