Some times I feel old and other times I feel like I'm just acting old. Usually when I feel like I've been acting old, I have an intense desire to reconnect with a lifestyle that I associate with being young. I had one of these moments last night.

Brooklynne and I had gone to a reception at Wilson Library put on by the Friends of the Library, and we had left Halleigh with my folks. The program ran late, so our plans to have a date at the Carolina Brewery or Top of the Hill kind of went out the window, and we rushed home to get Halleigh in bed. While Brooklynne got Halleigh bathed and in her PJs, I ran over to Jimmy John's to get a couple of sandwiches for a late dinner. Maybe it was the incredibly "old" series of activities that night, or maybe the act of driving around ninth street alone at night conjures my high school days, but for some reason I felt a strong desire to play a loud CD while I drove.

(In an aside, I don't remember the last time I played a CD in the car, much less bought one. I gave up buying CDs in college when I realized I would never be able to satisfy my desire to be cool by trying to maintain a knowledge of the music scene. Almost all of my CDs are high school hold-overs)

But in a supreme example of unbelievable serendipity, I found a Man or Astro-man CD in the player! What the heck?!!

So I blasted Man or Astro-man all the way to Jimmy John's and back. It made me really hunger for having more fun, being more spontaneous, finding friends who call us up and want to get out and do stuff, make something happen.

I was so energized I think I forgot to turn the radio off (or down) when I got out of the car. Needless to say, Brooklynne is in for a big surprise....