Whoa!

[a_t_rain]

My li'l brother just bought a house and got engaged! This is ... cool, I guess. And a little scary.

I think I would be a bit more unambivalently excited if I were not on the verge of moving back in with my parents, ostensibly for six weeks, really until who-knows-when, since I have no idea whether I'll have gainful employment after those six weeks are up. I feel like I kind of fail at being a grown-up.

I wonder if I will get to be a bridesmaid?

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[pearlrose86.livejournal.com]

I kind of felt the same way when my little brother moved out into a house and got engaged himself. I even had the bridesmaid question!

Although, I am moving into my parents house for the next summer or longer...so uh, I don't feel quite so good at being grown up, either.

[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

Nice to know I'm not the only one!

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, I guess. And hope that you don't have to be a bridesmaid. That way lies madness.

My sister and I had a long discussion when our brother got married some 18 years ago (it lasted for 3). Mostly we were just happy that for once he did something first. My sister married at 40 and I'm kind of thinking about it for my 50th birthday next year.

There are many different ways of being a grownup.

[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of hoping that I get to be a bridesmaid, actually, since I've never done it before, and it sounds like the kind of experience that I'd like to have ... once ... as long as the other people involved in the wedding are all sane. (I have not yet met the prospective s-i-l, but I trust my brother not to pick someone who's going to turn into Bridezilla.)

[mincot.livejournal.com]

My little sister got a house first and got married first and got a real Job first ... there are indeed many ways to be a grownup.

(((((((((((You))))))))))))) on the job market. It sucketh. The worst is that no matter how good you are and no matter how seriously bad the market or how crappy your luck in the jobs that DO pop up (i.e. they're for someone without yuor specs or you happen to be a clone of someone else in the department and they want diversity), it is hard not to globalize and think that the problem is that YOU are bad at what you do. That's particularly true when you look at some of the flaming eedjits that DO have jobs. But don't let it get to you any more than you can help, k? It IS NOT YOU. ((((You)))))))

Maybe I'll get married by the time I am 50, too ...

[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I just wish they'd decide I'm not who they want before they get to the interview stage, though...

[harriet-wimsey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my younger brother is getting married this summer, and meanwhile I've been living back at home after not even finishing grad school for a year. I do have a job, actually, it's just that it's half time and I can't afford insurance, counseling, meds, and an apartment all at once. I'm really excited about the wedding, though, and I do get to be a bridesmaid. But it's weird. This is certainly not where I expected to be at 25.

[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

Hope things get better for you soon, and congrats to your brother!