This is Jeremy making his first post. Hopefully I will be posting more as we keep up the blog but at them moment, I don't have a ton to say.
For most of today I was working on a highlight video for the organization Spectrum, which is a group of educators who work with autistic students of all ages and levels of autism. This highlight video takes video and pictures from their summer camps and puts them into a video which shows the student's parents what they did while at camp. The video is being shown tonight at Spectrum's end of summer banquet.
Earlier this week I had quite the panic, as my computer died Tuesday evening, and I couldn't get it to come back to life. However I was able to finally pull my data off of the drive before I reformatted, so that was great. Everything is good with my computer now though I have rebuilt it and it seems to behaving though only time will tell. Laura's birthday is coming up on Tuesday and I, for one, am excited. I look forward to celebrating her birthday and being with her on the day she turns 24, even though both of us have to work.
Growing up is a funny thing you know. I don't feel like there's a point where you sit and say "You're a grown-up". I don't think of myself as a "grown-up," yet at the same time though I do what are considered "grown-up" things like paying bills, going to work, and helping to provide for our family. So I guess the real question is what does it mean to be a "grown-up"? Does it mean to do those listed activities on a regular and timely basis, and if that is true does growing up simply mean performing a list of required task without being asked to do them? I always thought that was being responsible, which while is definitely an aspect of an adult, aren't children supposed to be responsible as well? Don't we teach that that, that they are responsible for their own actions, for their situation in life, and yet we don't call the grown-ups. I think a bigger part of being a grown-up is the weight of the responsibilities rather than just the regularity of fulfilling them, and I would go as far as to say that until you are providing for your own needs you're not a grown-up regardless of age or bill payed. I think other aspects of a true "grown-up" are patience, self-control, and thoughtfulness. I think you have to process and think first, then move whether in word or deed. I know there are many more aspects to being a grown up, but for now this is where I am stopping. Hope it wasn't to scatter brained, and I hope your day is going well.
