Lonelyyyy, I am so lonellllyyyyyy!!!

One of the things I have never had problems with whenever I moved to a new place was making friends. In 4th grade when my family moved from LA to Corvallis (Montana, not Oregon), I made friends over swing sets and sandboxes. In college I made friends over, well, let's face it, beer pong tables and schwag food (a.k.a. the cafeteria). I was in a sorority, which means that I could smile endlessly, carry a great conversation with you and be your new BFF with the snap of my fingers. Moving to Idaho the Mormons made friends with me because they thought I would convert to their religion. Actually I just wanted to yell, "MY FIANCEE AND I ARE LIVING TOGETHER AND WE'RE NOT MARRIED!" just to get a reaction from them :) We actually recruited friends from Montana to move to Idaho, and also made friends with a girl from New York. We actually only had one friend who was from Idaho that was normal-yeaaaaahhhh Shayner!

So one would think with my track record of easily making friend and being the awesome sorority member I was, I would do alright when we moved to Eastern MT, right? WRONG! People here already have their groups of friends, and it's really hard to break into that. They're friendly to you, just not friendly enough for you to feel comfortable asking them to go get coffee, or grab lunch during the week. Don't get me wrong, there are several lovely ladies that I met in a professional environment that I get along great with, and do in fact go out to eat with occasionally. But I never see them outside of the work week.

Patrick and I usually stick at home in the evenings and weekends, and don't really hang out with a lot of other couples our age. I tell him that I don't have any friends here, and he says, "Well I introduced you to my high school friends, just call them up and ask them to do something." Well, you think it would be that easy, but it's not! And like I said, I don't feel comfortable doing that.

Is is bad that I don't feel like putting in the effort sometimes? I think of all of the GREAT relationships I have with my friends from college, and then I think about how I don't think that any relationship I could start with the people here would even hold a candle to my lovely lady friends. I know this is really close-minded of me, but hey, I do what I want! So for now I try to put in the extra effort and time spent on the phone keeping connected with my friends who live all over the U.S.

I think that's fair, right? Oh, P.S., I'm really stubborn too. Sometimes I won't go out of my way to get something even if it looks even the slightest bit tempting, just because I don't want to :)