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Getting Our "Social" Back On

Most weekends the hub and I do stuff together. It's not because we are lovey dovey (although sometimes we can be) but because when you buy a house in the valley and your friends live all over the place and no where near to you, you have to expect you can't see people all the time. Then when you spend all your time with your spouse people must think you don't want to spend time with them so they don't call. I had one friend tell me, "oh, I don't call because I figure you two want to be alone." I tried to explain that is not true. She didn't believe it until she got a boyfriend and then we really didn't see each other for a long time! hehe

Add in that the hub and I are the largest movie buffs and spend a ton of times at the movies on the weekends, you sometimes suddenly find yourselves not being very social. Plus, when you live in LA you have to make plans in advanced, likely really far in advanced. My one girlfriend is always completely busy and booked for at least 3-4 weeks in advanced. So when I want to spend time with her I have to start a month ahead of when I want to see her. Planning in advance is not good for two lazy people who have no idea what they are doing until about an hour before they want to do something. The problem of course is you get a lot of "Oh, I wished you called earlier."

Anyway, three weekends ago we started to get our social back on. It started with my friend Krueger's birthday at the Red Lion and continued last weekend by accident, when I got terribly hungry for ice cream which is not something I get terribly hungry for a lot, seeing as I am Lactose Intolerant. It was Saturday night and being that we had stayed at home all day working on projects we both felt the need to get the heck out of dodge. So I suggested DIDDY REESES located in Westwood on the UCLA campus. Now when I first arrived in LA I was 22 years old so I spent a ton of time hanging out at UCLA. When I wasn't at a party, one of my favorite things to do was to go to DIDDY REESES, a cookie shop that made fresh cookies all day long. Best part they only cost .25 cents. The two best things at DIDDY REESES are the cookies and the ice cream sandwiches. I really haven't eaten many ice cream sandwiches over the years because I am not such the big fan of ice cream. But that night I was jonesing ice cream and cookies and knew we had to make the trip to REESEs. So we got in the car and headed to DIDDY and we both got our $1.50 yummy goodness and some cookies which are now .35 cents or 3 for a dollar. While we were in line, yes, even after 12 years there is a long line, we called some nearby friends. Luckily they were available that night and we got to hang out to the wee hours of the morning.

This weekend low and behold we had two engagements. A pajama, game, dinner night at a friend's house and a then a dinner party at our house last night. Both nights were fun. It's nice to get our "Social" back on. It's funny how life works. Sometimes you are soooooo busy that all you want to do is stay home and be alone. Then other times all you want to do is get out and go places and see friends. Getting to the happy medium is always the mystery.

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