Critical eyes

Again it happens! Ben and his 2 petite lady friends were all aghast at my vacation plans. They looked on in disbelief when I said I would be spending Christmas alone. Then I mentioned I'd be staying in Kerikeri and one of them said, "It gets even worse!" They were torn between being sure I was gonna get raped in a rural area and that I would be horribly bored and lonely. Is this thing really that bad? I'm actually starting to get amused by the hyped-up responses.

Maybe I'm a big weirdo and my dream vacation aligns with very few others? These girls were quite young so I'd expect it from them, but Ben? I guess me and Ben bounce off each other in overly negative ways, we're both a bit critical of reality and sometimes it doesn't work well together. I notice we both like to surround ourselves with happy excitable people . This reminds me of when Rob in Japan decided we couldn't hang out because we were too similar in how we could so easily get upset by the world. I like to think I'm slightly less prone to depression than him, but I see what he was saying now. At the time it hurt my feelings terribly, as I had decided he was the one I had the most in common with there. I was probably right, but Miranda and Marny with their adventurous positive personalities were much healthier for me to be around.

Pyuh, why does knowing who is good for me not make it any easier to avoid those who are bad for me?

All that aside, it was fantastic to hang out with the small girl Ben small girl trio and watch Bjorn Again last night (ABBA cover band). My voice is sore today. Oh, what am I saying, me and Ben get along great together! We're big cheese heads.

Just kidding about the farts Joe, I almost never notice them. I just wanted to stick something wry in between all the lovey-dovey crap that was going into that paragraph. I have to edit my posts sometimes so they make me less nauseated when I review them.