Yes, I overcame my 'don't touch my feet' syndrome. My toes are now french-tipped. It's adorable!

Pictures forthcoming.

Age 21

• In the United States (excluding insular areas), 21 is the minimum legal age at which one can purchase and drink alcoholic beverages.
• It is also the age at which it is legal to gamble and work as a prostitute. Prostitution is illegal everywhere in the US except licensed brothels in Nevada (except in Storey County and Lyon County, where the legal age is 18).
• In most states, a person who is 21 or over may also rent a car (although there are usually extra fees until the person is 25).
• Twenty-one was the minimum age of suffrage in the majority of states until the introduction of the Twenty-sixth Amendment.
• It is also the minimum age at which one can purchase a handgun or rent/use one without supervision in most states.
• Twenty-one was the age of majority in England and Wales before that age was lowered to 18 with the enactment of the Family Law Reform Act on 1 January 1970.

I sit here with a glass of wine from the first bottle I've purchased on my very own, thinking of all the other things I could be doing with these 21 years under my belt. I think of the tips I make at Starbucks and wonder what kind of tips I would make in Nevada. I might be naive, but I had no idea prostitution was legal ANYWHERE, except maybe places where there aren't instituted, legitimate laws. The idea of gambling is about as attractive to me as the idea of prostitution. At least as a prostitute, you know you will go home with money in your pocket/g-string. Gambling, though, could send you home with empty pockets, having shot someone with the gun you're now allowed to use without supervision.

So I think I'll stick to sipping a half-glass of wine, tonight (Bolla Chianti 2005). I'm excited to say I can actually identify the flavors listed on the bottle! Coffee tastings (I learned at Sbux) are modeled after wine tastings; its fun to know how to locate which flavors on which area of your tongue. Makes a gurl like me from Bonney Lake Warshington feel right cultured.