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There’s something about the image of a champagne bottle popping that makes me….nevermind.

So, it’s that time, again. December 31st. End of the year. That time when I look up at at the calendar and go ‘whaaaa? December 31st! Yesterday it was spring!? I’m not ready!’ But time goes on anyway, and I’ll wake up tomorrow and it’ll be a new day of a new month of the first year of a new decade.

Blogs galore are galavanting through the last decade, remembering and celebrating and commisterating, noting how much different they were back then, or maybe how much they’re exactly the same, whether that’s good or bad. I’ve done my fair share of that in my head, and in conversation, but I haven’t felt led to do much of it here on the blog.

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Sometimes I just don’t like people. I just don’t. A lot of times it’s because sometimes things come out of their mouths that are so…………..mindboggling.

One of the blogs I follow through my handy dandy google reader is Lost in Brook Lynne. I love to read blogs by people who engage me, make me think without trying to sound smart or deep or introspective by spouting off things no one else understands. I recently found Brook and enjoy her posts and perspective. So, in her most recent post, entitled “I beg your pardon?” and I kinda have to agree. Really? Really.

She writes:

“I doubt that fidelity is absolutely essential for a relationship. … Neither Brad nor I have ever claimed that living together means being chained together. We make sure that we never restrict each other.” -Angelina Jolie.

Well, well, well. Let me find out, Miss Angelina. I won’t say if I agree or disagree, because I am not married, nor in an exclusive relationship. But, I will say, as of late, women are willing to do more and more to keep a relationship together. Including but not limited to, being more lenient with infidelity.

-blink blink-

Oh well, the quote makes it seem as though she is doing her thing too. So, in case you’re wondering how this glorious happy couple works, there you have it.

Scary, right?

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Yeah. Scary isn’t quite the word for it. So, really… I could meet a man, have his kids, even adopt some kids with him and be totally happy… all I have to do to keep up the bliss is not marry him and give him the freedom to cheat? And I get to cheat, too?

BONUS!!! SIKE.

If that’s being happy in a relationship…. Singlehood, FTMFW.

Not only scary but really disheartening. More and more I’m afraid/convinced/100percentpositive that what I want (fidelity, loyalty, love unconditionally, best friend, all that) doesn’t exist. Not when this is out there and we let people think this is how people make it work. This is how happy couples survive. This is how it’s done.

Another of my fave couples, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett are rumored to follow the same policy– open marriage. I just can’t… iCan’t. I’m a good sharer– of crayons and play dough and toys. Not of people. I’m selfish with people. Especially people I feel I could spend my life with. Everyday I am faced with something new that says, ’sure he’ll be with you, but not just with YOU‘.

These things are getting hard to ignore.

Finderskeepers, No Takebacks, man.

(This post is long and mostly for me, so if you don’t want to read it, I’m not bothered by it. *sniff* So… just… skip over it to something happy. *glances over shoulder to see if you’re watching*)

MEH. That’s about how I’m feeling, right now. I was doing pretty good, until a few days ago, and now I’m all MEH.

Short story long, here’s what had happened:

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Some of my LJ friends might notice that my posts look odd. That’s because I found a great way to maintain my Livejournal and my Wordpress posts at the same time. This way my non LJ members can still keep up with the blogs they follow and my LJ friends don’t have to leave the site to read or comment.

Does this mean I am an attention whore? Possibly.

I also did it because I keep a separate writing journal but I am trying to stay active in some writing comms on LJ and don’t want to have to post twice. Et voila.

*bows*

Season’s Eatings