Be a better friend

Apparently I do this a lot, spreading my self a little too thin and essentially “double book” (a social worker friend coined that for me yesterday) with my friends. I feel so torn, as 3 of my favorite people were here and all left in a short time span. I try and get everyone in, everyone happy and everyone settled and I think I end up taking too much away from the experiences trying to make everyone content. This has been an ongoing theme when visiting my home town b/c I only usually have 3 or 4 days to get ALL the friends and family in, but now it’s become a problem in CT as well and I just have not found a way to set up those ever essential boundaries with regard to my time…kinda links up to the “use my free time more wisely” goal. Guess I’ll just have to keep working on it and keep it in the forefront of my thoughts…

I have been trying to really be congnizant of my attempts to be a better friend and this weekend I was able to really be present for a friend in need. I had a whole host of grandiose (sp?) plans worked out in my head for how I was going to spend my last weekend off before summer school began…a friend popped in Thursday night in tears and everything changed. I told her to simply leave Friday and Sat. open and let me take care of the rest. I took her to the best sushi in NY (my best sushi in ny), over to the Nuyorican for some soul refreshment and then out for some retail therapy…and it was wonderful for both of us. I’m glad I was able to put my own stuff aside to be there…I look forward to doing it more!