Is There Anybody Out There?

16 05 2010

You know the kind of friend who knows everything about you? I mean EVERYTHING. The kind of friend you can call for no reason.  You can go on car rides together and be comfortably silent, not feeling the urge to fill the air with meaningless conversation.  The friend whose seen you do the “ugly” cry. The person you’ve shared a hotel room with and not worried about what they thought if you smelled up the bathroom. A person who could show up at your house  unexpected when it’s horribly messy and you didn’t feel the need to explain why. I can count on one hand the number of friends (not blood related) in my life like this and still have a few fingers left over.

In fact, since I’ve moved from South Carolina (6 years ago), I haven’t found anyone like this. It’s not that I haven’t put an honest effort in to find them, it just hasn’t happened. It’s not that I haven’t met people I really liked a lot, but it just seemed they weren’t interested in that level of friendship or the spark just wasn’t there.

My husband is now this kind of friend, but it doesn’t REALLY count, because he’s my husband. Besides, as you know I had to order him off the internet.

So now, It’s the two us searching for a “couple” to be our friends. The perfect couple. He has a lot in common with the guy, I have a lot in common with the girl and vice versa. They have kids. They are intelligent with a great sense of humor.  They like to be physically active, but also enjoy being couch potatoes on occasion. They are very cool, but at the same time very goofy. They enjoy drinking, but aren’t boozers. We could travel together and be so close that we may fight and annoy each other, but still like each other beneath the surface of it all.

There have been a few couples that came close. Some moved away. Some were just too young. Some partied too much. Some are just too busy with their lives to even have a chance. It seems there’s always something

I’m thinking they should start an internet service for couples who want to meet other couples.

Actually, now that I think about it, they probably have these sites, but they are most likely looking for a little more closeness than we had in mind. The mind wanders. Perhaps that’s not such a good idea. Gross.

I guess the search goes on.



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How to Get Organized

1 05 2010

I cannot believe how long it’s been since my last post. My promise to myself to post something at least once a month has been broken rather quickly. I apologize for any withdrawal symptoms I may have caused you.

So what has kept me so busy?, you are wondering. Many things have, but the two that stick out most in my mind are my disorganized house and a severe case of brain atrophy.

Let’s talk about my house. My house is basically a collection of little piles of crap I don’t know what to do with. Every once in a while, I get a wild hair up my arse and decide to go through one of the piles.  This past Monday, it was my walk-in kitchen pantry.  I even phoned my mother for help in a moment of weakness. The first thing she said was (must say in motherly type nasal tone), “I’ve been noticing how much that needed to be done. I have a lot of good ideas, but I didn’t want to say anything without you asking, you know. You really need to put that dog food in a container. You are going to get mice. Your vacuum shouldn’t be in there. Did I mention you need containers for your dog food? Blah, blah blah.My eyes by this time had rolled around in my head twice.

After a mad search on google, I found a great article on how to get organized. They made it seem so simple! Just spend a few minutes every day on a different section and soon your life will be perfect! Just like they instructed, I made my three boxes.

Box 1=things to throw away

Box 2=things to give away

Box 3=things to keep, but move to another location

I went in to the pantry armed with hair in ponytail, my paper towels, boxes, and trash bags ready to work.  If you could now just imagine the theme to The Good the Bad and the Ugly playing.  I soon realized why I hate doing things like this. It took me exactly 2 seconds to become confused.

4 full spray bottles of bug spray on the shelf. All of them full. 1 bottle is for wasps/hornets, 1 bottle for ants, 1 bottle for bees, 1 bottle flying insect killer.

My mind started racing. Why do we need all of these? Does bug spray expire? Is “flying insect killer” good enough to replace “wasp and hornet killer’? Wouldn’t whatever kills a bee be able to kill a wasp?  I started to whimper. Soon I realized I had wasted 10 minutes staring at bug spray.

After some further shit shuffling, I find we have a brand new rice cooker sitting in it’s unopened box. First of all, most people I know don’t even have a rice cooker, let along two of them. And though I’ve fallen in love with the one we use, I had no idea we had a brand new SUPER size rice cooker sitting in the back of our pantry. Which one do we keep?

I decided to move on and wait until my husband came home to discuss it. Progress was made and I ended up with one pretty full box of trash and another very full box of things to give away.

Unfortunately, the give away box is still sitting in the kitchen next to the pantry waiting for me to move it. Yet another pile of shit I’ve created to deal with.

Stay tuned until next time when I talk about my brain atrophy.

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