So, being an adult isn’t always that great. There’s a job to go to, bills to pay, home to clean, mouths to feed, etc. High school and college was great. My job in college consisted of sitting in the rec center and swiping IDs while staring at people working out. My parents awesomely paid for a lot of shit so I didn’t enter my adulthood in a buttload of debt (Neal says I’m spoiled). Whatever.

So anyway, sometimes it sucks being an independent adult. It really does.

Well, this weekend, it dawned on me.

I thought of one reason it TOTALLY ROCKS being an adult.

Listen up. This is groundbreaking stuff.

Ready?

NO ONE CAN TELL ME TO STOP PLAYING VIDEO GAMES.

Seriously.

I realized this weekend how cool it is to be an adult because my parents can’t yell at me to quit playing video games. I mean, sure I have to stop playing eventually because I have responsiblities and things to do. But I decide when. I decide to wander aimlessly in the made up ancient world of Fable 2 for 3 hours on a Sunday afternoon killing random drunkards and doing “vulgar thrusts” at female villagers. All while my upstairs bathroom falls into complete disrepair.

I can play “Good God” by Anouk on Guitar Hero until I get 100%. I can sing along to “Living on a Prayer” by Bon Jovi while I jam on my plastic guitar. Neal and I can totally disregard the mess of dishes from dinner in the kitchen and instead battle each other on “Everlong” by Foo Fighters.

Some might call that irresponsible. I call it Adult Awesomeness.

Speaking of video games, Neal and I have a special chair that we set up right in front of the TV to play our video games, It’s a folding Eagles chair with a footrest my parents bought him. Pretty cool.

Well, yesterday, Neal didn’t sit down fast enough to play Grand Theft Auto IV, and Simone grabbed her opportunity to get front row seats on the gamer action.

She totally took over. But, I guess the other cool part with being an adult? We can kick the kids out of any chair in the house we want.