Maintaining Friendships

BFF's. Like totally. Um, that's really not reality for many of us. Best friends FOREVER. I think not. There are people who are lucky enough to have had the same best friend since they were a little kid. My dad actually is one of those people, but I honestly don't know anyone else who has had that kind of luck and friendship. The truth of the matter is, friends come and go. Some of us still have our college friends in our lives, some us even are close with our high school friends, and then there are some of us who have even maintained relationships with our grade school friends. Many of these relationships have been consistent through the years; however, some saw years when you didn't speak at all, but somehow renewed that friendship again. Then there are those friendships that you thought were real and they totally fall apart. Whether it was distance and/or just a slow growing apart or a big falling out that ended the friendship, we've all been there.

Gone but not Forgotten

I have been watching Reality TV for a long time now. I still enjoy many of the old standby's like Survivor and Real World...and even the Bachelor on occasional seasons. However, there are some reality shows that were on just a few brief seasons and then were never to appear again. And you know what? I miss some of them. A majority of the shows were were very popular in their day but just ran their course...very fast. However, it would be great if some network would show re-runs of them or even recreate one.

1. Average Joe. This show premiered in 2003 on NBC and its premise was to take a very pretty girl and put her in a Bachelor-type dating show but instead of handsome, buff men, she got a bunch of "Average Joes." She didn't know this when signing up for the show, so was essentially bamboozled. However, in my opinion, these so-called Average Joes were more on the nerdy side, then on the ordinary side. The girl was obviously duped from the beginning, but sucked it up and went with the flow for the remainder of the show. And just like the Bachelor, the relationships at the end of the show, were not long-lasting.

Why are You Single?

I recently read an article on Jezebel about a 32 year old single woman who is constantly asked why she is still single. Usually by her married friends. I obviously forwarded this email to my mother and another 30-something single girlfriend of mine. My friend, like myself and the author of this article, constantly get asked "So, why are you still single?" It's such an annoying question and one that I get asked that quite often. I guess I can take it as a compliment (can I?) that people are shocked that I, being as awesome as I know I am, still haven't snagged me a man for good. So why am I still single?

There are a number of reasons that I am single. First and foremost, I am NOT going to settle. Period. I know what I want in a man, and I am not just going to date someone, or even take the next step and marry them for the sake of pleasing everyone else. Yes, it would get a lot of friends and family members to leave me alone, but would I be happy? Probably not. But they would be. Right, mom? Finally, your friends would leave you alone about your poor lonely, single daughter out in NYC. And really, that's the only reason for me to land a man. Just to please you and your friends. 

Hungry for the Games

It's almost here. March 23. Random date, huh? No, it's not anyone I know's birthday or anniversary. I'm not heading anywhere exotic on vacation. And it's not the day that I am certain I will meet my future husband. Why its the opening of the Hunger Games movie. And I absolutely cannot wait. I know, I know, I sound like a huge loser making that statement, but I haven't been this excited to see a movie in a while.

I was first introduced to Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Triology last year by a good friend of mine and a student of mine at different times. On separate occasions both of them told me what an amazing series this one and how I must, must read it. They both explained what the books were about to me in their own words, and my response was "um, that sounds dumb. It's so not for me." I mean, did I really want to read about a futuristic world where people are voted in once a year to fight to the death for others entertainment? No I did not. And when I was at the movie theater a little while after that and saw the trailer for the movie, I straight up didn't get it.

Welcome Back to Me (yes!) and Lindsay (not so much)

Well, I'm back. After a two week hiatus, I am back. When I took on this project in late August, I knew it would be hard. People start blogs all the time, and then stop after a few months, or even weeks. I honestly didn't want to be one of those people, and it was looking like I was going to be after 6 short months of writing this one. At the least, I wanted a solid year out of writing this blog so I will do my best to get to that. The problem is, I am afraid I will run out of material. (It's starting already.) And after being on vacation for a week, I think I came back a little too relaxed and lost my creativity and desire to write. So I took off another week.

This blog has been a good outlet for me thus far to voice my opinions on certain topics, make my random observations in life, and kind of just ramble sometimes. And it was sort of cathartic.  So here I am, ready to start again. I think. Hopefully more exciting things will start happening in my life, funny things will occur and more ideas will come to me.  And if they don't, hopefully there will be enough trashy TV and celebrity gossip to at least earn me a few more blogs.