Vacation in North Carolina

Although I'm really enjoying my vacation to visit my best friend, I am having to get used to living on a different schedule than I normally do.

My bff's husband works weird hours (from 2pm-11pm) and so stays up later than I'm used to at home. He will usually stay up until 3am and then sleep until noon.  Considering his work schedule, this really isn't unusual.  I wouldn't want to have to come home and go straight to bed either. However, because of his schedule, my bff also tends to keep later hours than usual (going to bed around midnight and getting up around 9am). Luckily, NC is an hour ahead of MO time, so I'm not staying up much longer than usual. I am, however, eating much later than I'm used to. Not so much breakfast because I get my own when I get up, but lunch and supper are a lot later than I'm used to, even taking in the time difference.

Dinner was started after 7pm

Went to a cheese steak place (after 8pm). Loved it! But I'm no longer used to eating like this...

Considering living with other people is never easy, weird eating hours is not that bad.

My vacation is more like a "staycation" in that we aren't really doing much but hanging out and enjoying each other's company. The only difference is that I had to drive over 900 miles to do it. I wouldn't change anything though. We've just been hanging out, playing games, watching tv, and talking. We did go shopping at Target this afternoon and may go to the movies tomorrow. We were supposed to go to the beach today, but it rained.  I'm excited to go to the beach. I don't really like the beach, but I like to go see the ocean at least once a decade...

Have a banana Princess!

 We've both been playing a lot of My Kingdom for a Princess.  We sit in the same room, on separate laptops, playing the same game. It's a time management game. They finally created a version that will work on a Mac, so I downloaded it the other day so we could both play at the same time. It's definitely my favorite time management game.

I really wish my bff lived closer so we didn't have to pack in an entire year of hanging out in a week's worth of time. I'm hoping that she will get back to MO in the next year or so...

I'll leave you with some wonderful advice from Dwight K. Schrute.

I found this poster at Target and since I couldn't think of a good reason to buy it, I took a picture instead. My favorite quote is "Whenever I'm about to do something, I think, 'Would an idiot do that?' and if they would, I do not do that thing."

Single Saturday #1

At 34-years-old, being single is a little bit different than it would be if I was 10 years younger.  For some, 34 would be more depressing; they would probably be more desperate for a date/mate and would probably be tired of the looks of pity from their married friends. For me, I am content. If God chooses to drop the perfect guy for me right on my doorstep, I'm willing to give it a shot, but I don't go looking for dates or worry about being an old maid. However, even though I might be perfectly happy being single, there are always a few things that being a part of a couple would make easier...

I am currently staying at my best friend's house in NC. I am so glad to be here, but being single does make a few things more difficult. First of all, it was a long trip...even though I managed to make it halfway across the country in record time. I kept myself busy by listening to two audio books. I started out with Nicholas Sparks' The Guardian, and finished up the trip with Kathy Griffin's book, Official Book Club Selection (quite the variety, I know). I am, however, under no disillusionment that the drive would have been more fun if I had someone to ride with me (assuming I got along with that person...we're not talking about just anyone here).

Another minor consideration is that my bestie is still pretty much a newlywed. Since I haven't seen her in a long time, I forget how her and her husband act around each other. There's nothing wrong with it, and it is cute, but it does make me feel like a third wheel sometimes (only when they are being all lovey-dovey though). I am sure the situation would feel more normal if it was two couples hanging out together instead of a couple and a single person.  Even a group dynamic would be quite different.

This has been one of the main issues I have with being single at my age. Almost all of my good friends are married. Most have kids. It may be wrong, but for the most part I just assume they don't want to hang out with me anymore. While that might not be true, I still find that relationships aren't quite the same after someone gets married. 

While I don't like being the third-wheel, I don't think it is a good reason to feel forced into finding "Mr. Right".

So I'm just wondering how other singles feel in similar situations. How do you deal with it? Have you lost friends when they marry?

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