yay random quizzes and some mushy stuff too
today was the most fun. woke up and cuddled and watched some mindless tv with the boy. cleaned the room (it actually looks decent!!!) while jamming out to Pat McGee Band. joelle came over and we went for an adventure drive up rt 3 North to the Pheasant Lane Mall... we only sorta got lost - but it was ok because we found Panera and had a lovely time chatting over soup and salad and lemonade and tea. eventually we did find the mall and a decent parking spot! we walked around in and out of stores trying hard to find things for other people and getting tricked by non-moving escalators. to end the mall adventure we waited in a crazy line at Haagen Daaz for ice cream which was served to us by a lady with a strange foreign accent. we came home and i showed joelle the crazy lights on the street down the street from me and them we DECORATED THE CHRISTMAS TREE!! remember gay lights don't go together. needless to say we strung the entire lights wrong so we had to redo it - but it was so much fun!
i love the holiday season. i love everything about it, the crazy malls, the searching for the perfect gift and the smells and the crispness in the air, and the little snow flakes that fall every now and again even if they don't amount to much.
there are so many people that i'd love to spread some holiday cheer to, but they're always too busy or don't have the time... but one of these days they will take me up on my offers to come over and watch a movie or go out for ice cream, and things will brighten just a little bit. but someting tells me these people are running with a different crowd now and seem to have forgotten how much joy they spread to other people.
but as always things change. people change. lives move on and people drift. i'm finding that more and more of my "close" friends and i are becomming distant and we have less and less to talk about when (if) we get together. we acknowledge each other and make small talk and formalities where once there were deep and meaningful conversations. if this is what getting older is all about i don't think i like it one bit. but we're no longer a tight knit group, people drop in and relationships change. people drop out. and groups get smaller.
my kid sisters are going away to college in a little under a year. joelle gave me her senior pic. she looks so much older in it. i can't believe how much the both of them have grown. looking back on pictures in the past i can't help but smile when i think of how much they've added to my life. i'd truely be lost with out the both of them, i hope some things never change.