just being pensive... my parents are going on a cruise to Alaska next week and I'm sort of planning a small get together some night when they're gone to cook up some burgers and stuff, go swimming, and just hang out. I'm a small get together person, but still... it's kind of depressing that there's really only one friend (with her husband, daughter and daughters boyfriend) that I can think of to invite over for it. I so wish my friend Kieth could come over for it, he's my closest friend. But even though he only lives two houses away it's still too much for him to be able to come over (he's the one with MS... I mean I'll ask him for sure, but I know that just that tiny little jaunt from his house to mine would be a major effort for. Even though it's only a few hundred yards it would most likely take him at least an hour and many falls to get from the couch in his room to the lawn chairs in my back yard.
Then I keep thinking of this other friend of mine named Chris. He only lives a few blocks away and we've known eachother as long as me and Kieth have (since freshmen- sophmore years of highscool). For most of my life he was best-friend #2. But we lost touch a couple of years ago... sort of drifted apart even though there really wasn't a reason to. It would be so cool to see him and start hanging out again. But it's just weird after that long... we haven't even talked on the phone to eachother for these last two years. I want to pick up the phone and call him, but there's weird anxiety there. It's stupid, I have no good reason to be anxious about it... but I am. I can just picture myself picking up the phone, dialing the first 6 digits and then hanging up before it goes through. It's stupid and a sad way to let one of the best friends I've ever had stay drifted away.
Anyways... I'm just feeling down from it all. I'm in one of those places where I'm seeing opportunities past and friendships forgotten everywhere I look. I so want somebody right now that I can just call up and be like "hey! let's hang out!" and just watch some TV and talk about life and junk.
=( I think it'd be good to try calling them. You never know, they might be wanting to see you too.
Ahh, but I know how you feel. I think.
Umm.. if your friend can't go over to your place, is it possible you go over to his place instead? But yea. If you and Chris were that close, and lost touch, it's really a good idea to call. I think really good friendships don't simply end like that. Call him! Yes yes! Say anything, "hey! wanna hang out for [insert whatever]?". I think it'll work.
Yeah, just call him. What's the worst that could happen? Some awkwardness, and not knowing what to say? If you two are friends that won't matter really. I hate phones, but there's been times I've stared at the phone and wished more than anything that someone would call me - and not having that person' number I couldn't call myself. Anyway, he's probably thought about calling you a time or two himself.
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no man I'm in Arizona... about as opposite from Alaska as it gets (well maybe besides Hawaii)
I was saying that my parents are going on a cruise to Alaska this week (they've done this every year since my Dad retired like ten years ago. For some reason they just love taking Alaska cruises... they've tried every cruise line by this point.)
I'd say about half the really good friends I've had in life are people that I never talk to anymore but I've got to where I can call someone out of the blue and talk to them like I've been around them for years. This happens when you move all over the US for years at a time...lol I guess it's just my nature to be able to do that. I'll have someone in my phone and think, hmm, i haven't talked to them in a year or so... I should text them. then they'll be like, holy **** man it's been forever since I talked to you... how ya been...etc. Just call him up, say you wanna cook some burgers on the grill and he needs to come over since you haven't talked to him in a while. You'll have him over and chatting it up about the past few years in no time. It's easy to say this since I'm not in your shoes but if you don't think about it then you'll just do it and it'll be alright.
well I still haven't called my old friend... heh, I'm a loser like that I guess. But my parents leave at 3:00 AM tomarrow morning... just 6 hours and I'll be joyously on my own for a week. whoooohooo!
Can anybody tell me the best way to make french fries from raw potatos for my little burger cookout party? Obviously we're talking about cooking them indoors (the frys) in some sort of deep fryer pot or something. But what... do I just chunk up a potato and fry it? is it that easy? Can I make some sort of tasty coating to make them like curley fries or something?
yep, you can just cut up a tater and fry it. that's what my mother used to do, make sure to salt it a bit or it'll be quite bland...lol. I only have to say that since I very very rarely ever salt anything. but even this was something that I have to salt. I wonder if you could roll them in flour or maybe bread crumbs to get a good coat of something on them, something I've never tried but it may work.
well I still haven't called my old friend... heh, I'm a loser like that I guess. But my parents leave at 3:00 AM tomarrow morning... just 6 hours and I'll be joyously on my own for a week. whoooohooo!
Can anybody tell me the best way to make french fries from raw potatos for my little burger cookout party? Obviously we're talking about cooking them indoors (the frys) in some sort of deep fryer pot or something. But what... do I just chunk up a potato and fry it? is it that easy? Can I make some sort of tasty coating to make them like curley fries or something?
'French' fries? You mean 'freedom' fries, don't ya, citizen? You don't want frogs in your barbecue .
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