New attitude

While reviewing my recent posts, I realized that I've used this blog more as a venting space than an area to share stories and thoughts with friends and family. And so, my goal is to keep it more upbeat and light-hearted. It will go along with one of my personal goals of being more optimistic. :)

Today I am working on finishing up projects before flying home tomorrow. It's amazing how fast time goes when you're on vacation sometimes. I thought I had all the time in the world to finish things, and now I have less than a day to get ready for Christmas!

I am ecstatic about being home with the family- first time we've all been home at the same time in a year. I will also be going to a wedding of a childhood friend this next week, as well as catching up with many Portland friends!

I don't want to learn things on facebook anymore. Not small day-to-day things, those are fine. But big, life events of "friends". Like finding out someone's engaged/expecting/in a relationship/married. Maybe the problem is that facebook causes us to be TOO connected. What if we learned things through the good old-fashioned grape vine? What if we knew things about people because we actually saw them and talked with them on a semi-regular basis. I'm tired of knowing people superficially and losing out on close friendships that once were. Is it better to just not hear about things? I don't know. Sometimes I think "hearing" things online hurts just a bit more.