thoughts from my parents' couch

I don't have guilty pleasures. Why should I feel bad about the things that I enjoy? I should not. But, I will admit that there are some things that I enjoy that are a little bit odd, maybe immature sometimes, but I'm not apologizing. One of those things would be watching the Canadian teen soap Degrassi. And tomorrow a movie is premiering on The N - "Degrassi Goes Hollywood." Excited is an understatement. My sister and I have been waiting for this all summer and she's even baking cupcakes for the celebration. Our love of Degrassi is one of the few things left that we have in common and can enjoy together and tomorrow night will be wonderful, even if the acting isn't.

This brings me to a thought/question. I'm 20 years old. Is enjoying things like Degrassi, Spongebob, and the Fairly Odd Parents still okay? And if it is, will it always be? I'm all for doing your own thing and not caring what others think, but at some point I've got to turn off Nickolodeon and get off the couch, right?

And those thoughts take me somewhere else. I don't want to grow up. I mean, I don't mind getting older. Living on my own is pretty cool, driving isn't so bad, and I like having my own money. But I don't want to give up some of my kid stuff. I still like to color in my Little Mermaid coloring books. Channel 32 is always the first thing I turn to when I switch on my TV. I could sleep until 11 o'clock every day and not feel bad about it. I have two Harry Potter T-shirts and the theme on my iGoogle page is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I just found out that the job I've had in Bryan for the last 2 years fell through, so over the last 2 days I've been scouring the Jobs for Aggies website and applying for anything that I can deem "do-able." And I have hated every single second of it. The first day, I cried for a good 45 minutes. My mom just kept saying, "Its part of growing up" and, "This is just part of God's plan." Well, I don't want to grow up and sometimes God's plans just really upset me. That's an extremely immature statement, but please don't pretend you've never felt that way.

My roommate warned me that junior year of college is a sort of difficult one. You'll turn 21, start thinking about life after college, and it will really hit you that you're not a kid anymore. Its time to grow up. I guess I'm there and I don't like it. I just never imagined this point in my life and its weird now. I'll be fine. I'll find a job, stop watching so much TV, only wear my HP shirts to bed and keep the Little Mermaid stuff in my closet. But they're not going quietly.