travel reciprocation???

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you know when you have those friends?  those friends that are so fun to be around, and for some reason, those friends ALWAYS live in cool places.  don't get me wrong, i think that colorado is a cool place and i understand that people pay good money to come visit.  but for some reason, it's always me that seems to be traveling to see people.  why is that, when we live in such a "cool" place? 

even more so...is there some kind of a travel reciprocation that needs to happen before you start feeling taking advantage of?  like your state isn't good enough for them?  i have a friend, who, quite literally, has never gone somewhere to see me.  she has come to colorado, but never with the intention of seeing me while she was there.  as in, "i got a long layover and let's hang" type of thing.  i'm not at all questioning my friendship with this person...but you get where i'm coming from?  i think.

10 things

i got this, from a number of people that i visited this week...i couldn't name them all, but it's a spin off on the Mcklinky Tuesday



5 things i love/5 things i unlove...or don't love



1. i shamefully love reality TV. I don't get into American Idol and the like, but if the show presents people in the light of being "human", i'm all over it. there is this show, "solitary", on the reality channel. i watched a day marathon of the thing. i couldn't take my eyes off of it.

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2. i love japanese things and people (especially my family and friends!). i love the fact that everything is packaged just so. i love the fact that everything that is supposed to be big, is made small. i love that the food, especially the candy, is just divine and i don't feel bad eating it.

3. i love fall days. i have about just moved from colorado this year, because of this humidity that seems to think it has moved in permanently. i love colorado weather, but give me rain and cooler weather anyday

4. i love animals. they don't need to have fur on them...if they can look at you...they are all right in my book

5. i love being in a relationship where i can be myself (read: watch reality tv). no, seriously, i love the fact that while i am not dependent on my relationship to sustain me, that i would rather be with him, ALL OF THE TIME, than without. just so happens, we don't see each other a whole lot, so it all works out...absence makes the heart grow fonder.

5 things i do not like..i have a tough time writing this, because i don't want it to be perceived that i'm thinking about them all the time. i'm a pretty positive person and am actually usually ridiculously so, the worse the situation is.

1. i have been stewing on this one for a while...so shoot me if i have some negative thoughts...every once in a while. i do not like it when you are walking down the street, not thinking ANYTHING at all, but just happy to be walking down the street, and someone that you do not know, tells you to smile. there is NOTHING that is more irritating to me than that, for a couple of reasons. 1. because you don't know what kind of day i've had and maybe my pet toads were wiped out by a serious toad plague....you just don't know. 2. because 100% of the time that this has happened to me, i have not been upset in the least....just because i choose not to walk down the street with a dumb#%$ ! grin on my face, is NOT your problem. i smile a LOT, and i am confident in the fact that i do it more than the average person...so step off

i feel much better now

2. i don't like when people use ANY excuse for not talking to me about something that clearly needed to be talked about

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3. i do not like it when people are entitled to things.



4. i do not like cockroaches...maybe this is a given?




5. i do not like friend fights when i am almost 35 years old. those were for high school and i'm sure i had my time for those...all i know is...it's not now.