i wish that i could say great and wonderful things have happened since i last wrote here. nothing much has happened though. although...in my favorite book, the perks of being a wallflower, there is part where charlie is talking about the football players at his high school and how these are their "glory days" that they will tell their children about someday. and he says "maybe these are my glory days too and i'm not even realizing it because they don't involve a ball". all i guess i'm saying is that while nothing particularly adventurous is happening in my life, it's a good life nonetheless and maybe when i'm old i will tell my children how we went to look at christmas lights and laughed together. or how i had a group of people that i love so much that once a week we could spend almost an entire sunday together and still just sit around and talk and laugh until all hours of the night. and how we experienced real laughter and real tears and real anger together and it made us better people together. because these things really are important to me. i wouldnt trade them for "excitement". maybe these are my glory days and i'm not even realizing it...
i feel like the year 2009's lesson for me was about friendship. about what it really is. and how words are really cheap. you can SAY nice things to people. you can compliment them, call them nice things, tell them you miss or love them, but if you're actions don't reflect all of those sentiments, they're really meaningless words. several situations i've encountered in the past year have really driven this home for me.
today i am going to be baking muffins and cherry cream cheese danishes. i have never made a danish before in my life, so we'll see. i've eaten plenty so at least i know what it *should* taste like.
