me: look on FB and tell me if you are still friends with Leah
Janie: says its not found… what’s up?
me: i don’t know!
Janie: huh…
did you text her?
me: i just did, yeah
Janie: please tell me why i called my mom?
me: because you’re insane
same reason i called mine
Janie: we need to stop doing this
me: YES WE DO
Janie: fucking hell
hahaha, my phone hung up on her!
awesome
I should not call her back
but I will
me: hahahaha

11 minutes

Janie: …

I’m having a hard time.  Mostly I just don’t know what the hell I am doing.
It’s funny how you carry around all this baggage from place to place – one relationship or experience to another.  And sometimes you think you’ve let it go and then life comes in and BAM, it slaps you in the face.  GOTCHA BITCH!
This is a real thing that happens to me.
I’m going to say something nice about Janie for a second.  I KNOW.  WEIRD.  But in all reality, I feel incredibly grateful for the friend …

Janie and I have each become fans of the Tumblr blog The Ex Factor which is, “a compilation of AIM Instant Message Buddy Chats between two people you’ve likely never heard of. Stephanie and Adam are longtime exes. After a tumultuous, on-off relationship, which culminated with them living in misery in a one bedroom Sherman Oaks apartment, behind the Ralphs, the couple split up over Labor Day weekend, 1999. He kept the apartment, she kept everything that was in it.  Since that time, …

Oh, you guys. I spent last Friday night with my ex-wife and parents at the emergency room. I know, right? TOTAL PARTY. Best night ever. We got wasted on IV fluids, tongue depressors and that cart full of unlabeled medications.  We just absolutely wrecked the place.
After going out to dinner with my family to celebrate my victorious return to the United States without dying in a horrific plane crash or murder by the locals, I went home and had a good cry into my pillow …

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look into the reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade …