Well HELLO strangers!

Okay, okay, so it's been a little while...

If you notice the last blog, it had something about Tom Brady having a perfect season-well I think we ALL know that didn't happen! My friends even sent me balloons and a card that said "Sorry Tom couldn't pull off the victory for you. Thank goodness you have friends that really love you. GO GIANTS"--yeah, some friends, sent like, 25 balloons to my office where I was forced to fear for my life (as I am TERRIFIED of balloons!).

And in more recent news, the Memphis Tigers also lost their chance at a perfect season this weekend. However, their championship hopes are STILL alive baby!

So I've turned 25, celebrated Single's Awareness Day by shredding pictures, visited friends in Auburn, yadda yadda...I owe blogs and pictures from it all. But I'll try to write a meaningful blog before I throw the craziness of my life on y'all.

What has inspired me to FINALLY update my blog you ask? 1-Shawn keeps telling me to give the readers what they want and that he KNOWS I've had some good material lately. Yes, yes I have. 2-My sister has asked numerous times if I'm EVER going to blog again. Yes, yes I am. 3-Chad, my fabulous brother in law, has started a blog. Yes, yes he has.

So I've been sick for the past week with who knows what and was dog-sitting at my parents house. Last night was the first night back in my apartment, and what do ya know, I couldn't go to sleep! My friend Corrie and I laugh because when we can't sleep, we end up watching the same bad tv. Well she was sleeping peacefully last night and I was watching re-runs of "Home Improvement".

Laugh if you must, but I think it's a great, albeit cheesy, show. (Can I get points for using the word "albeit"?) So last night, Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor's old college roommate was in town (who graced us later with the wonderful character Shooter McGavin in Happy Gilmore) for a few days. Jill, Tim's wife, hates Tim's old friend. He burps, farts, crushes beer cans on his head, etc. So she asks Tim "If you met him now, do you think you'd still be friends with him?" He thinks about it and is kinda like, yeah, he's good for a few laughs and we've been friends for a long time. Then Tim and his friend are talking and his friend keeps bringing up the past, and Tim is like "Well, today is pretty great too" and his friend says "But weren't those the best days of your life?" Tim is like, they were good, but these are good days as well.

So WILSON, the greatest character whose face we never fully see, talks to Tim later in the back yard. Tim tells him about his friend who keeps living in the past. Wilson says, it's okay to reminisce, but not to dwell on the past. Tim says "How do I just cut him out? He's been my friend for fifteen years". Here's the kicker...Wilson replies "Really? Has he been your friend for fifteen years or was he your friend fifteen years ago?" BAM.

How is it a line from Home Improvement hit me so hard? Perhaps I'm at a phase in life where I have a lot of people who I call friends, but they aren't friends to me and to be honest, I'm not a friend to some of them anymore either. I have people I know getting married, having kids and while I'm excited for them, they might as well be strangers. So are they my friends now, or were they my friends 4, 8, 12 years ago? Call it a quarter-life crisis, but it's time to prune back the craziness. Now I know people lose touch after high school and college, but could it be that I'm hanging on to friendships simply because it's convenient?

So I challenge you to think about it. Are there people in your life who are dragging you down because you are putting forth more effort than they are? I'm sick of wasting time and energy on people who will never care about me as much as I care about them. I'm sick of the meaningless promises. I got rid of a BAD "friendship" one a few years ago, and it felt great! I shredded a picture of a guy who treated me like dirt when I found out he got engaged to give myself closure, and it felt AMAZING! Getting rid of the superfluous relationships that have plagued me and jaded me...what a terrific concept.

I will be an acquaintance, old roommate, former whatever, etc. but from now on, only the people who care about me and love me for who I am will be honored with the title "friend".

Ahhhhh, I already feel better...now I get to see Raja Bell tonight when the Grizzlies play Phoenix and then I will go home and watch One Tree Hill =) Happy girl right here!!!!

More to come soon, I promise!!