Sure as Hell No.

My husband says he wants kids... before we turn 20. Uhh.... NO! I asked him what's wrong with waiting until about age 25 to have kids. He says that's too old. Uhh... NO!

"Why is that too old?" I ask.

"Because my dad was 22 when I was born." Says he.

Why the hell does that matter? My parents were 30 when they had me, and I had just as much fun with my parents as he did with his, if not more. Being able to have fun and raise kids has nothing to do with whether you are 20, 25, or 30 when you have kids. My husband sure as Hell doesn't understand this. We will never understand each other's logic in this matter.

In my mind this creates the equation: Chelsea's idea + Nik's idea - Chelsea's unwillingness -Nik's misunderstanding= NO KIDS.

I would be just peachy with this, but he is really upset with my prognosis.

"We're LDS," he says, "and people are going to start asking when our first one is on the way. We're expected to start having kids soon, and you're going to have to get used to getting asked that question."

Why in the Hell should I have to get used to being badgered about when I want to have kids? ESPECIALLY by other people? And just because I'm LDS? Isn't the decision on whether to have kids or not a personal matter? Come on people. If being LDS means I have to start having kids before age 20 then I'll just start telling everyone I'm atheist and believe that as the world is overpopulated already we don't need to bring more children into the world. UGH. I now remember why I said I was never going to get married.

And how did this whole conversation get started between me and my husband? A seven year old girl asked me today if I was pregnant (This, to me, just means that I really need to get back in shape). Then she asked me when I was going to get pregnant. I told this to my husband, thinking he would just tell me that I was right about needing to get back in shape, and this whole damn conversation started.

My Latest Trend

I have been watching a lot... which is an understatement... of Star Trek the Original Series with Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner. This is terrible for my homework, because it has gone undone for nearly a week now. Also, it makes me incredibly unproductive. I do as little as possible so I can watch multiple Star Trek episodes in one day. My mother is worried that I'm becoming a "trekie," and while I'm not worried about that, I am worried that I will not be able to catch back up to my schedule and meet the deadlines I set for myself. You see, that's the problem with deadlines that you create for yourself: you know that nothing is going to happen if those deadlines aren't met, so you let yourself procrastinate and keep throwing the deadlines back until it really is too late to ever finish what you started.

Star Trek is also keeping me up till nearly 1 AM every night, which is bad for my health because I am getting up too early. This causes me to further be unproductive because I find myself falling asleep during the day. I have been doing the bare minimum required of me. Looking at this trend I have fallen into makes me realize I need to change it, but it is one of those really addicting laziness trends that take awhile to get out of. My mother has described it as the way I take down time. She says, "Chelsea, you hardly ever take downtime, but when you do, you take it hard and for quite awhile." So, maybe this is my downtime and I just need to wait for the inspiration to start working again. I just hope it starts back up soon.

Elementary Assignments

So, my posts are usually longer than this, but that doesn't mean I can't vary my length of post every now and then. I was helping my 12 year old cousin Bailey with her english homework. Kids have a tougher curriculum in elementary now, I'm telling you! She already has to know a bunch of latin roots and then all of the adding and dropping suffixes to make things nouns. I don't even think I knew the word authentic could become a noun until I remembered the word authentication; and by remembered I mean that I looked it up on the internet. The assignments were ridiculously time consuming. That could be just because I wasn't the one writing, but whatever.

Kids nowadays also have ridiculous math book setups. The format of my cousin's math book was really ridiculous. It took me forever to find the properties they were asking us to use to identify certain problems. Also, I feel that the math is somewhat easier when it came to story problems, but harder when it came to just the numbers. I hated story problems in school, but the ones she had were really easy. I guess that is because I moved up through a bunch of math classes, but personally, I believe that the story problems were harder in the math book I had in sixth grade.