[MonkeyMama]

I try to be social. Sometime I am happy for my social life, sometimes I wish I got out more, and sometimes it exhausts me. But overall I am more of a family person, and they take a lot of time, not a lot of time for friends. & beyond that, friendship is just exhausting. I have those few friends I have had for years/decades that I can always count on, and find myself frustrated as I age how long it takes to develops those friendships. In the meantime I am stuck wading through the endless muck of pettiness and people who are the best of friends once second and the worst of enemies the next. I have found a few gems in the rough though, though I Can take that crap less and less as I age. I can't keep track of who hates who and why any more.

For a while every time I hit it off with someone they shortly thereafter MOVED, that is the frustrating thing around here, it is such an expensive area people tend to pass through pretty quick.