stay in touch with my friends

So I love people genuinely…. I try and surround myself with quality souls from all walks of life…. our differences unite us and i love to find what unites me with people and then share in celebrating our differences!

I am rambling…

My point is my friends are not necessarily all people who hang out together and/or even live in the same city or country and therefore it is unfortunate that I happen to be one of those people who SUCK at keeping in touch. My New Year’s resolution was to stay better in touch and I am proud to say that I am currently on a role reconnecting with people but my goal is only complete if I can keep it up

i want to make sure that i can keep small tabs on Joel (not stalker-ish, just that i know he’s ok etc) as he is living a hard life and really doesnt know whats right.

i want to make sure that he gets help before its too late, and that he can have the best life possible.

Di says she came over twice in two weeks for a total of like… 5 days?

I need to do a better job emailing regularly and sending letters the old-fashioned way

My whole life I’ve been very good at this, but lately some people that I really care care about have been slipping away. So I’m going to try and make a better effort to keep connected to people I don’t get to see or talk to as often as I’d like. I know from life-long experience that it’s worth it! ^_ I want the friends of my youth to be the companions of my old age!

I pretty much know where everyone that counts is now, thanks to that website.

I call me friends who live out of town while I’m driving home from work. I know, that probably drives some of you crazy. But it helps me stay in touch with them! I am much better about calling all of them than they are about calling me, so I must be doing a good job with this goal. I just have to keep it up forever so we don’t lose touch!

Hello Lost Friends Out There,

This letter is to you and you know who you are. You’re wondering where that goofy, gorgeous and intelligent, ok fine at least the first one, friend of yours went. San Diego kids. I up and moved to San Diego and though I told you this somehow 2000 miles are a real disincentive for the both of us to pick up the phone, because face it the closest we are going to be to having a beer together is each slurping Sierra Nevadas while chatting on our cells in very different climate and time zones and that is about two steps away from getting drunk alone, which is what I will do after we hang up.

Let’s get the I’m sorrys out of the way: I’m sorry for not responding to your e-mails in a timely fashion, sorry for being a dork and not responding at all because it had been so long that I felt embarrassed, sorry that I didn’t call because I didn’t want to talk about how I don’t have a job quite yet (been interviewing though), sorry that I ditched Facebook and Myspace because they are a Time Suck. All of my Time Suck time is devoted to tech blogs and vaguely related job search stuff, oh, and blogging on a list site.

That’s enough sorrys. I discovered paper pads and rediscovered Outlook and use that for scheduling things. You won’t know this because it is lame, but I now have a reoccurring event that pops up ever 2 weeks and says “Call ___your name” and forces me to take action by either dismissing you or calling you. Ditto your birthday card. And every communication I will bug you to visit me until I have finally guilted you into it. And come on, is it really that hard to visit your good friend who just relocated to San Diego and has a spare bed??? Yes, you can find the time. Do I need to say there is free beer?

As for my intown pals I haven’t been that lousy have I? Hope not! I do need to have a party soon because you all have been super about inviting me to everything under the sun. My 1/2 true excuse is that I’ve been getting my place together and now we have a couch, chairs, wine and other prereqs for a “party”. Once you leave college chairs matter for a party or so I am told.

The other thing I need to do (and you are guilty as well) is ACTUALLY SCHEDULE the coffee date implied by our frequent partings “let’s do coffee really soon, ce ya.” I’m a little shy so help me out on this and volunteer a possible time or…I’ll put an entry in Outlook to e-mail ya! Thanks for wanting to be my friend again in 2007

Sincerely,
Your Found Friend

has been working well

i keep my ‘old friends’ appointment maybe every other week

which is great compared to the looooong neglect of the past

friends are as good as a fragrant brioche

i knew that’s exactly what my friend pen would say when i called, and sure enough that’s exactly what she said

it was great just hearing her voice, and getting that confirmation that yes, although we haven’t spoken in at least a year (mia culpa, mia culpa maxima), we’re still tight friends as always

that was last week. later today, i plan to finally return that e-mail from andy that’s been sitting around my in-box for weeks asking me how i’m doing and all