friends.

Friends.
Good friends.
Best friends.
Frenemies.
Acquaintances.
Old friends.
New friends.
Ex-friends.
Boyfriends.
Girlfriends.

Everyone has friends.  Everyone has many different kinds of friends. Sometimes good friends turn into best friends or even boyfriends or girlfriends, and sometimes best friends turn into frenemies, or even ex-friends.

What makes two people go from being good or even best friends to ex-friends or acquaintances? It's terribly sad.  There must be a breaking point though...it can be that simply distance makes a friendship fail, but I don't believe that because one of my very best friends and I went away to college and saw each other maybe twice during those four years and we are just as close, if not closer now.  I believe something has to happen.  Not necessarily a fight, maybe just a different opinion on a certain subject, or maybe lives just go in different directions and one gets left behind.  However it happens, it's sad.  That's all there is to it, it's sad.  The even sadder part, that I've come to notice, sometimes after one friend gets OUT of a relationship where the couple had a mutual friend, those friendships deteriorate. Maybe not immediately, or even with both people in the relationship, but eventually there is a loss of friendship.  Even sadder, the initial friends are sometimes the ones whose friendship doesn't last, and this new person who was brought into their lives through a relationship remains friends and simply takes them away. Maybe that's life ?

I love my friends, I would do almost anything for them at almost any given time. However, when I have "friends" who blatantly disregard my feelings and make me feel like the one in the wrong or make me feel like I'm over reacting or being dramatic, sorry sweetie, our friendship is speeding down hill at an increasing rate and you have no idea it's even happening until it's going to be too late.

NOT my favorite things...

cold weather

stomach aches

my shows NOT being new

mornings

snow

my sister's going back to school/work

texting first

Doctor appointments

favs.

pink nail polish

thanksgiving eve

moon brook

cabernet

sisters being home :)

peace signs

sparkly shoes

Life.

Because it’s not just about moving forward. It’s about ending up in the right place.

these are a few of my favorite things...

blue sky

straight, soft hair

watching movies in a warm blanket

kissing hello

kuhlua and vanilla ice cream

Practical Magic

favs

Bonaventure basketball games

my new red hair

pink starburst

glee night

my purple pumps

new eye makeup

11:11 on 11.11.11

throwback mountain dew

Coach bags
Kate Spade pink eye glasses
twitter

Marilyn Monroe

I have a mild obsession with Marilyn Monroe.  For Christmas not one, but two of my three sisters got me a Marilyn book.  Also, my cousin, who was my secret santa, bought me a coffee mug with a Marilyn quote...clearly my obsession is public.  I have started a small collection of Marilyn items in my apartment, and plan to continue. 

Lately I have been wondering why this obsession started.  At first, I think it was for the same reason everyone who loves her, loves her...she was a beautiful successful actress, I don't agree with everything she did, like have an affair with multiple men, buuuut for the most part I thought her life was magnificent.

Now, I think the obsession continued growing because I sort of relate to her.  She only ever played the dumb blonde role because that's all her managers and directors would allow her to do, she was good at it, why change something that was working, right? Although, she wasn't dumb, she was actually quite intelligent.  Well, a lot of people only think of me as a dumb blonde. I'm not dumb, nor am I naturally blonde. Anyway, I do tend to put on a show and hide the real me from time to time.  A little while ago I was talking with one of my best friends and she said to me that many people have asked her why she is friends with me since I am so flighty.  This really upset me, I wanted to scream, "KEEP IT TO YOURSELF!!" but I clearly didn't. Marilyn played a dumb blonde and people thought that was all she was...I put up walls and not allow people to see the real me, which sometimes comes off as a dumb blonde.  Fortunately, I know it's an act, I'm not really dumb, and honestly, I don't really care if someone thinks otherwise...get to know me, then you will see I'm not so flighty. "I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't." Marilyn Monroe. I love finding a Marilyn quote that fits my life <3