The Minnesota trip was fun and I got some cool presents for the holidays. My parents got me SG-1 Season 1 and 2 and a bunch of new clothes. My Dad made me a new wooden puzzle game and my Mom got me a pretty executive pen set. My sister bought me Half Life 2 which I have now beat and really enjoyed it.
In addition to seeing the "fam" I hung out with a lot of friends I had not seen in ages. It makes me miss the old crew from back home. Even when I got only a few of them to show up at the bar for the first night I was back we still ended up with a crew of about 10 people. If everyone would have showed up we would have doubled that amount.
I miss being able to call all my friends and create an instant party where ever we go. Out here in Vail I am thankful for my friends but if I called everyone together I would end up with about 4 people. And of those 4 maybe only 1 would go to a bar.
I am not that bummed out that I can not go to the bar as it is different here than it is back home. Here people go to the bar for a whole different reason. Back home it was a place to play pool and hang out. We would just be a group of friends at a bar. Here it is a meat market. People go to the bar to show off themselves and to gawk at others.
I think the group of friends I hung out with probably made that difference between the two bars more than anything but it is not like I can just go hang out at a club or bar by myself. First off, unless I know someone really well I am notoriously shy and will not go talk to them. Once I know someone then I will talk your ear off but I am the worst at meeting new people.
My biggest problem with meeting new people is that I am not very good at hiding my personality. And I am a loud obnoxious annoying person that has no sense of propriety. That means I do not make a good first impression. In fact I know what kind of first impression I make and it is never good.
It is not that I am a not a good person, I feel that I am a very likable person once you get past my rough exterior. But I know that to get past that first impression I need to have someone introducing me and standing next to me in a first meeting to act as a buffer between me and the person I am meeting. So when I have 4 friends who are all homebodies, that means I do not get out much.
In addition to seeing the "fam" I hung out with a lot of friends I had not seen in ages. It makes me miss the old crew from back home. Even when I got only a few of them to show up at the bar for the first night I was back we still ended up with a crew of about 10 people. If everyone would have showed up we would have doubled that amount.
I miss being able to call all my friends and create an instant party where ever we go. Out here in Vail I am thankful for my friends but if I called everyone together I would end up with about 4 people. And of those 4 maybe only 1 would go to a bar.
I am not that bummed out that I can not go to the bar as it is different here than it is back home. Here people go to the bar for a whole different reason. Back home it was a place to play pool and hang out. We would just be a group of friends at a bar. Here it is a meat market. People go to the bar to show off themselves and to gawk at others.
I think the group of friends I hung out with probably made that difference between the two bars more than anything but it is not like I can just go hang out at a club or bar by myself. First off, unless I know someone really well I am notoriously shy and will not go talk to them. Once I know someone then I will talk your ear off but I am the worst at meeting new people.
My biggest problem with meeting new people is that I am not very good at hiding my personality. And I am a loud obnoxious annoying person that has no sense of propriety. That means I do not make a good first impression. In fact I know what kind of first impression I make and it is never good.
It is not that I am a not a good person, I feel that I am a very likable person once you get past my rough exterior. But I know that to get past that first impression I need to have someone introducing me and standing next to me in a first meeting to act as a buffer between me and the person I am meeting. So when I have 4 friends who are all homebodies, that means I do not get out much.