Really?? It's Christmas??

I feel like I am just a Negative Nelly when I type on my blog but in real life am a pretty happy person. I wonder why that happens.

I'll start with the bad. I broke up with a friend this week. It's weird. I've never done that before, but really, I needed to I think for my sanity. From the last post, you know that the person kept coming up on my Facebook. I texted. Never heard anything. Then on Monday I texted and said "Hey old friend who never responds back, I hope life is treating you well." And still nothing.

I know sometimes I might be bad with returning phone calls or texts and everything, but I always try to in a week at least. Especially if it's a friend I'm bad about doing that with. I guess mostly, I am the friend that is good at keeping in touch with everyone, but when you live in the same town as the friend, responding is usually a must in a few days. So basically, I broke up with a good friend who lives in the same town as me because he can't seem to respond to anything. And I didn't do anything. I would like to blame it on his girlfriend, but my other guy friends while we might not hang out, still talk to me even when their girlfriends might not like me or like them hanging out with their girls who are friends.

I also gained a new guy best friend. Well we've been quasi friends for like 4 years, but this week he told me I'm one of his best friends and he'd hate to do anything to ruin that. That made me feel pretty good. Thank you for making me feel awesome. :)

There's a whiskey here called Templeton Rye. You can get it in IL as well, but it's super hard to get it here. This morning I went to get it at a grocery store at 8am when the shipment came in. There were 60 bottles and I was #57 with my ticket. Some people had been there since 5:30-6am. It was like Black Friday for hard to find whiskey. Fun times! :)

I love the holiday season. For my family, it's never been about the presents. It's always been about spending time with family. I guess that's what happens when you live 7 hours away from your extended family. Family has always been important to my family and I'm very thankful for that.

My parents and sister asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I realized that somewhere like in college, Christmas quit being about the latest gadget and cool thing but what I needed as opposed to wanted. So now that I am a homeowner, I asked for things like electric screw drivers, a weed eater, snow blower, etc. Things I needed but too lazy to go and look for when I could just borrow them from a neighbor the few times I needed them. But my Mom said I had to put down something fun at least and then I realized my perfume levels were getting low so I asked for perfume. Man. . . I guess that proves I'm old.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to those who don't celebrate Christmas!