Adult(ish) Observations: Library cards and Holiday weekends

Library Cards: My brother flatly informed me the other day that libraries were basically dead when I mentioned I wanted to get a library card in my new town. I argued that libraries were still cool, and libraries are even starting to embrace electronic book borrowing which is hip and with the new times. We then were sidetracked in the conversation by this old song that we both magically remembered from a childhood TV show:

Anyway, that basically sums up my feelings about libraries. I owe a lot of my love of reading (and subsequently learning) to my teachers in elementary school and a certain librarian who said it was really cool that I read books from the non-fiction section, which inspired me to read even more and more non-fiction books. Long story short: I got a Monroe County library card today. Which involved the adult behavior of changing my address online with the DMV. I also felt grown up cause I felt somehow permanent in this new city.

Verdict: Libraries are cool and will forever have a special place in my heart.

Holiday Weekends: Yesterday was the first time I experienced the joys of being paid for a holiday without even showing up for work (Spoiler alert about the verdict: I'm a fan). What did I do with the first long weekend of my adult career? I did what Bethany's do best, which is a weekend hiking mountains in the Adirondacks. And on monday, as I threw on my pack and joked to my fellow hikers that Starbucks and showers were awaiting us out of the woods, I smiled because I was getting paid as I did it. 

Verdict: What can I say? Its a beautiful thing.