Insanely Awe-dical

Turns out Reggie and the Full Effect released another CD. I knew he was working on one -- but didn't know it was already finished and RELEASED.

Heading over to Tower Records to pick that up right after work. Booyah.

Kate posted a very interesting post about love (well thats me), friendship, and growing up. I'm in the same boat as her -- when did life get so complicated? I remember this thought echoing in my head throughout my life in the last 8 years of post-grade school education. Life constantly or even exponentially got more complicated. From drama on the playground, to the difficult classes of high school, to awkward social situations and understanding girls (what little number of the I met), to dorm life, apartment life, college life, working life...

Things really did catapult to a serious level, and now where am I? Looking for a full time job, perhaps juggling multiple jobs/internships, making sure I'm set with an apartment, perhaps getting medical insurance since I will not be able to stay on my parents' insurance when I graduate...

This did get complicated, but it is nice to look back and remember the good simple times, and the people who rocked your world then, and helped shape you. Times are different, people drift off, and its sad. No reason to fight for what made you friends -- things are so different now in different places that it is impossible to wish for that. Kate says to just "remember how we used to be and how much we mean to each other." She's right.

I will take from my friends what I have, and appreciate it for what its worth. I hope a lifetime of inspiration, hard work, and happiness. They have given me so much, and I hope nothing less for them. If you're inspired me, I hope you know who you are, and you all know you're the best. Period.

By the way, I freakin' love Kate. She rocks my world so much, I don't even want to imagine what I'd be doing without her. She is absolutely right with what she says in her post -- we have changed a lot. We fight, we make up, we work hard at our relationship. Sometimes we have our issues, but we talk about them, and work things out. We compromise and sacrafice for each other. We understand how one thing would affect the other.

I posted a comment on her lj, and said that I need to be concerned where I'll be living in 6 months, and I need to be concerned where we will be living in 6 years.

I'll close with some lines from The Starting Line's "The Night Life." It's about a breakup, feeling bad about it, and eventually recovering from it, but it also reflects some words about friendships that aren't as pertinent anymore:

"At least you lived to talk about it.
At least you got your health.
At least it made you feel alive."