Changing the Design

Ever since I discovered that Blogger will let you add your own banner to the top of the blog, my mind immediately ran an impossibly large amount of thoughts through it, all having to do with creating the perfect banner to go along with the blog.  And so, I have been trying to create said banner, but with no success.  I need to nail the perfect pixel dimensions first, then I'll really have something to work from.

But it's going to have to sit on the back burner for now.  I leave for a mission trip tomorrow, haven't packed, and I won't be back until the fourth.  So whilst I'm out, my mind can subconsciously mull it over, and then when I get back, hopefully I'll have something a tad more creative than my first two (failed) attempts.

Other than that, I had a semi-horrible dream two nights ago.  I dreamed my dad wouldn't let me go out drinking for my birthday.  Seeing as I will, in reality, be 21 on my next birthday, I thought I'd maybe get a couple drinks, just because I'm legally allowed now.  But that dream really mangled the thought.  I informed my dad of said dream this morning.  He was amused, but in not so many words reassured me that no such thing would actually occur on my birthday. For the record, alcohol does not have great appeal to me, but I thought I'd savor the occasion anyway, just because birthdays for me have become rather bland.  It's a fairly anti-climactic thing to look forward to, I suppose.

It's funny.  When you turn 18, you're legally no longer a minor, but what are you really?  It isn't until you turn 21 that you're totally "in the club", as it were, when it comes to legalities (at least in the states).  So what, really, are the 18, 19, and 20-year-olds?  We've been told we're no longer minors, yet we're not full-fledged adults yet, in the legal sense, until we hit 21.

Weird.  Another question: Since this world defines itself by opposites, what is the opposite of a minor?  A major?  No one has ever told me.  I'm not sure anyone really knows.  To me, it almost seems some arbitrary age someone picked years ago and said, "Alright, I guess they've gained the knowledge by this age to act half responsible.  And for the half that aren't, well, maybe they'll eventually gain the insight the hard way."