I’ve been pretty swamped these last few days but being busy is a good thing.

I have about 7 voicemails that are just sitting in the memory of my cell phone that I need to call back but and every time I think “I need to call this person back” I get distracted like a cat watching and chasing around an unreachable beam from a flashlight. I never catch the beam but meanwhile, days have gone by and now it’s been so long since the messages came in…I’m a little embarrassed to call at all.

This happens a little TOO MUCH with Emails as well. I’m sure I’m not the only one. I have some emails from people that I haven’t made the time to write back “properly” to and I’m sure they must be thinking I’m ignoring them…NOT the case… but I must say, I’m getting tired of starting my emails with “Hey _______, I’m so sorry I haven’t been back in touch sooner…” [Something I need to work on perhaps]

A few days back, I discovered the danger of not returning an email from someone (even though I’m pretty sure I DID email back). This person emailed me a little note preaching the gospel of “friendship” and how I somehow broke the Ten Commandments of email etiquette. JEEEZE.. Hang me to a cross already! I wont go into this story too much but it didn’t end pretty.

Most of my friends back in Michigan are very understanding. They know that I have a life here just as they do there. I really do try to keep in touch as much as I can though. Perhaps the saying “out of sight, out of mind” is a little true but with that being said…I have some really good friends that I don’t talk to after a few months have gone by but when we do talk, it’s as if no time has gone by at all. That’s refreshing.

After moving away, I did notice that I was mainly the friend who always called everyone (which I didn’t mind)…I learned this by trying an experiment of not calling to see how long it would be before a call came back my way. Let’s just say I waited quite a LONG time. I wasn’t upset or anything (I’m not that “high maintenance” of a friend) but when they did call, they said something like “Why haven’t you been in touch?”… Um TELEPHONES work both ways but I didn’t say that.

Anyway…I’m not even sure what point I’m trying to get across here.

I did think by blogging, it would be a way for friends back home to check on me and see how things are going but that backfired a little. What happened with some people is they thought I was being too impersonal or something. Not what I intended… however, the upside is that I’ve made some new online friends and readers that I’m very thankful for