I got a chance to see Melissa and meet her daughter, Devin, for the first time (she's 4 months old). It was so strange to think that this little baby sitting with us wasn't just somebody else's kid but my friends. I always get all flipped out when I start thinking about how adult some of my friend's lives are. Actually most of my friends have quite adult lives. I don't know if mine is or not. Sometimes I feel quite grown up. I can drink, I live on my own, I'm going to law school next year, I'm almost graduated from college. Then again, my parents still support most of my life, I'm terrified half of the time when I think about the future, I still act like 21 sometimes. Maybe I just haven't had my opportunity to grow up in the way my friends have. I'm not in a relationship, serious or not, which eliminates an area of adultness most of my friends are dealing with. I don't have a kid, thank god (nor do most of my friends). I guess the problem is I don't feel like I'm this old. I don't feel like I should be thinking about the next 30 years. I miss the days where I just knew what was going to happen and that was all I really had to worry about.
*sigh* On to happier things. I had a really nice Christmas. I do miss the big family Christmases back East, but sometimes it's nice just the 3 of us. I got most of the things I asked for and a bit more. I now own a blender which is very nice. I've read almost all of the books I got for Christmas already. So far this break I've read the following:
1) Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
Very good. I laughed a lot and made me realize I never want to really be a nanny. Also, that some people have way too much money and don't really realize what is important to them.
2) Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
I really enjoyed this though sometimes it was a bit hard to follow along with. Since the writing is done from the point of view of a 15-year-old autistic boy, it can skip around a lot. It had a very unique perspective though. Also, there were some surprises. Definitely recommend this one.
3) At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks
Good as always. Not one of my favorites, but I still enjoyed it quite a bit. I'm hoping Sparks does a sequel to this book following one of the characters like he did with The Notebook and The Wedding. Also, it had the sad twist as normal.
4) currently in the process of A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
So far this book is intense. I'm not a huge Oprah fan but she did well when she put this on her book list. The style of writing takes maybe a chapter or two to get into and the flashbacks are making me curious. Not that I've ever really considered doing drugs, but if I had this book would definitely deter me from experimenting at the risk of becoming addicted. I'm about 1/4 of the way through and the crap the guy is going through detoxing is crazy. Some of the stuff makes my stomach turn just reading about it.
Also I hope to finish Why Men Have Nipples and another book about random information. I'm one of those people who seems to know a random trivia fact about everything so I'm quite looking forward to these books. Also, Kelly bought me Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen for Christmas. I love the new movie so I think I should give the book a try. I'm very excited for it.
One of my other favorite Christmas presents was the movie Crash. I think I find something new in the movie each time I watch it. I completely love it.
Tomorrow is New Year's Eve and I'm still not 100% sure what I'm doing. Last year I was quite sad at the thought of possibly spending it alone. This year I'm not that worried though. What did make me slightly depressed though was the comedy club Laff's. Jamie and Erik
were thinking about going to the early 8 dinner show. I've decided not to go to that because it's a bit pricey. While looking up the price for the 8 show I noticed that they also have a 10:30 ring in the new year show. However, there is no 'single' pricing for that show - it's only priced in 'couples.' I guess that would be fine if you had an even number of single friends. Good thing I didn't want to go to that one. It would have sucked to have to say no because I was single. Oh well. Guess they don't' think single people might want to laugh at midnight. (The picture is my favorite New Year's Eve so far. Even though I look awful in the picture, it was just so much fun. Almost all of our friends together just having a good time. It was the New Year's between 1999 and 2000 and we partied like it was 1999).Well I suppose I should head off to work now or at least get ready for it. Happy New Years!!
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