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Published July 03, 2009 03:03 pm - I did a very grown-up thing this week. I mean, besides going to work, and paying two rents, and wearing my seat belt and paying bills. I ate a sandwich with vegetables on it.
Anne Kettenbrink: Grown up enough to say goodbye
I did a very grown-up thing this week.
I mean, besides going to work, and paying two rents, and wearing my seat belt and paying bills.
I ate a sandwich with vegetables on it.
I know, that seems like a small thing. But for me, it’s almost unheard of. Now, I have nothing against certain vegetables. Carrots, corn, potatoes — I’ll eat those. I like salads, and I’ve been more adventurous lately about what I’ll eat on my salads.
But ever since I was little, I have always preferred a plain Jane sandwich. Meat, cheese and maybe some mayo. My cheeseburgers don’t even get a sauce.
But this week, I ordered a sandwich, and the only thing I asked them to hold was the tomato (because raw tomatoes have a weird, squishy texture that I just can’t get over).
Perhaps it was because Globe Editor Carol Stark blogged that she thought that I had outgrown the title of my column and that I was, indeed, quite grown.
Perhaps it was because she said I’m not quite middle-aged, which kind of makes me want to emulate that Cathy cartoon strip character. “AACK!”
Or maybe it’s just that my age is starting to catch up to me. Or would it be that I am starting to catch up to my age?
When I was growing up, I was mature for my age in a lot of respects. Obviously, eating vegetables wasn’t one of them. Even so, I’ve always thought of myself as a mature person.
But now, maybe the tables are turning. Maybe it’s time to wise up and eat right, exercise, go to bed early and not watch so much TV.
Right, moms everywhere?
I suppose now would be a good time to start. New job, new apartment, new leaf.
I will chalk it up as one of the many things that I have learned since I moved here five years ago.
Range Line is two words.
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