Growing up

Two events that occurred during this past week have led me to believe that I have (finally) become a full-fledged adult. Now, the reason I felt so insecure about this (i.e., my "adult-ness"- that, by the way, should be a word) is that I am not in a regular job. Grad school is fine because you do make enough money to live, but when people ask what you do, and you say you are studying, they instantly jump to the conclusion that you are in high school or something and treat you like a baby. Not that high-schoolers deserve to be treated like babies.. anyway, I was talking about the two events.
The first happened in the beginning of the week. One kid, who we will call Kid, to protect his identity (not to mention his pride and self-esteem) screamed for me to chase away a moth that had settled on the wall, and I did it without hesitation. That probably doesn't sound like much of an 'event' to you, but for someone like me who is used to calling parents or grandparents or sometimes even roommate to do insect-chasing work, it was quite an achievement to be entrusted with a responsibility of this magnitude, and actually completing the task with minimal fussing and squealing.
The second was having my marriage fixed. This, however, quite apart from being a reminder of how much I have grown, was more like a wake up call. I have so much more growing up to do. For instance, how many grown women do you know who haven't cooked a complete meal in their life? Unless people have started considering 'kanji' a complete meal, I am in real trouble. My husband-to-be is trying to ease my fears, or maybe just trying to be funny, by offering to get me a "cooking for dummies" book. I am pretty positive that no such book exists, but if there is, or if any of you are planning to write one, I really would like a copy. I could, at the very least, familiarize myself with the theory...
PS: In all this excitement, I forgot to mention that I got my passport on Thursday, so that's one activity that I'm dropping from my vacation activity list. Yay!