big girls don't cry

what the helicopter is going on with me!?  it's like my emotions have come out of left field.  is this something that happens to people my age that my 30-something (i mean 29 year-old) friends never warned me about?  i spent the better part of my late teens and 20s not really being much of a crier.  the exception to that rule was if i was with my mom and sister.  one dramatic example was when my 'contract was not renewed' with a company i had been working for for two years while i was in college (which totally worked out as the company shortly thereafter went out of business after the ceo was investigated by the fbi and arrested.  looooong story).  at the time this happened i had been planning to spend the next summer studying in london.  i remember very vividly crying on the phone with my mom exclaiming, 'i *sob* will *sob* go *sob* to *sob* london!!'

an example of my cold-hearted ways was when one of my best friends was shocked to see me cry while watching 'sisterhood of the traveling pants' (it was emotional, people!)  we had been friends for a couple of years at this point.

well, in the last year things have significantly changed.  i cry at every flippin' little thing.  my aforementioned best friend having a baby, commercials, cheesy hallmark and lifetime movies, articles in magazines, the auditions for 'so you think you can dance' (every episode!  i almost thought i'd have to give up the show)...ugh...the list goes on.  it's embarrassing really. 

*sigh*  just another one of those growing up things my mother didn't warn me about. (and yes, that's what i'm gonna blame it on)