not 20 any longer and work-related headaches

[little_firestar]

I've been 30 for less than a week, and gotta tell you: I am feeling my years. It's not that I feel old- older, yes, but not old.
Only, I am finally understanding what it means feeling being an adult. Ten years ago I celebrated by birthday with my friends in the afternoon, went to Bra for a pizza and then to dancing, getting back home at well past 3. And the next day i woke up at seven like it was nothing.
This year... well, I did celebrated for two days with the same friends, getting back home at a quarter to 1 on friday (well, it was already saturday..) and not sleeping the whole night because of something that I did and feared being discovered (getting a little tipsy and hitting the sliding gate with the back of the car- and spending over 20 minutes under the snow and the rain to get it back in place so that it wouldn't be discovered the next day) and then, on saturday, I went with another couple of friends to dinner in a nearby city untill one am.
and then...oh, boy, what a couple of days. Yesterday I worked all afternoon on the HACCP Manual and MOCA certifications and procedures, and then, today, AGAIN on the HACCP Manual and IU've spend the last hour trying to get an hold of my eelcrtic company, and failing every time because they just pass me from an intern to another one to another one and etc and etc... so, yeah, it's eleven and I don't know yet if tomorrow I will be able to work because there is a chance that the energry will not be on- and I work with coolers and fridges, so, let's be ready for an action if something get wasted.

Comments

[dm12.livejournal.com]

Yes... I suppose it's time to grow up when you're 30. I can't believe that, by your age, I'd been married 7 years and had 1 child already (2 more before I turned 40). I guess marriage and children force growing up, although I've never been one to stay up all night on the town (to study for an exam, maybe).

That said, I'm sorry you are having such a difficult time right now. I'm also glad you aren't feeling ancient; I certainly don't, and I'm a couple of decades older! Chin up, there are advantages to being a grown-up!

[little-firestar.livejournal.com]

Oh, trust me, I've been a grown up for quite a while, and enver been a party animal- the only time I did, it was soemtimes for my birthday and only if there was someone else dragging me. I'm more the odd bird that goes to sleep at half past nine than the one who stays us partying untill the early hours :)and that even if I don't have children- something that could sadly stay that way for a long time, as, giving the psychiatric hystory of my family, I decided a long time ago to not have bilogically (and adoptions are extremely difficult in Italy, and only allowed to few selected amrried couples).
What amazes me si the fact that, despite haing been in thsi line of work for almost seven years, ande despite the fact that there is a minister for the burocratic semplification burocracy is still Italy's number oen problem, especyially for small enterprises as my own, and that electric providers don't try to make life easier to their costumers the fact that you don't need a day nowdays to find a different company.... sigh. that is what gives me headaches...

[dm12.livejournal.com]

Wow, that you can make decisions like that does indeed show that you are grown up! It's just that your body doesn't make the same allowances anymore for those occasional really late nighters, so you have to be more careful.

Bureaucracy is a total pain and prevents many a thing from getting done. I sympathize with you over that and hope you find a solution. Good luck!

[little-firestar.livejournal.com]

eh. I guess it's just that it looks like yesterday that I stayed up until 3 to do my homework and stody, and yet it's been ten years and I'm gone at half past nine...