So a lot of my friends and family have been asking me lately. . ."whats with the attitude? whats wrong everything okay?" Well my answer, "its just that time of the year."
I've never been one for the holidays, even as a kid waking up at 4 am to see what Santa had brought me wasn't at the top of my list or even encroaching on the top 20. But sure enough year after year my sister would come wake me so we could sneak in the living room together. I love gift giving, and gift receiving don't get me wrong, but there is just something else about this time of year that really chaps my a$$.
Why does everything have to be a date event? Thanksgiving with the family we all go to my grandmothers house everyone shows up, all my cousins with their kids, my sisters family with her teenagers and husband, my brother and his wife with their son (who just happens to be the cutest baby in Utah - no joke he won the award from a magazine) then enter my last sister and her boyfriend. No one says anything but the looks are all there. . . "Wheres Lynn's boyfriend?" ***Lynn doesn't have a boyfriend, hasn't since early spring.
Alright fast forward, its Christmas time, I live in Salt Lake. My sister is in love with the lights at temple square and wants to go see them, but wait, "Who ya gonna ask to go Lynn?"
*** No one. . haven't been on a date since early spring.
New years - thank god I have to work, I could see this happening just they same way not only my family but all my friends, we get together do the ball drop, and then the awkward, "Who's Lynn with?"
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Maybe you should talk to my brother! Since he and Tina officially, officially for real this time, broke up, I am pretty sure he hasn't been on a date. The only one left in our family is Emily and she just turned twenty, and all his friends are happily married with kids. He would probably understand exactly how you feel...
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