Tuesday - Warmish with snowflakes
An okay day.
In lieu of my usual update, I’m going to write about something else, to see how it goes.
I’m the person who keeps in touch. Many of my friends here in Japan say that they have lost touch with old friends, they just don’t have a lot in common with people back “home” anymore. I never thought it would happen to me. Never.
I’m the person that sends Christmas cards every year. I love Christmas and anxiously wait for my first card of the year.
I keep in touch.
Today I just downgraded one of my best friends on Facebook. I moved her from my “Close Friends” category to …well, nothing really. I RE-moved her from the Close Friends category. She’s still there in my Facebook feed, just not as prominently as she was before.
We’d been doing quite well for a long time, staying in touch. Then she got a hectic job, had a loss in her family and then - nothing.
I got the occasional email for a while and then they tapered off. She never was good at the Christmas Card thing, but after a few years of me sending one and getting nothing back, I decided to let it slip this year. She didn’t notice.
I’m sad, but a little philosophical about it too. I wish her well and who knows, one day we might revive our friendship, but for now, I’m going to move on.
The other thing was dinner. After work tonight, I came home and cooked. I made pancakes. Technically it is Shrove Tuesday today. I’m not religious at all, but I had been craving pancakes for a while, I had a lovely mix I’d bought at FBC and just hadn’t had a reason to open. Tonight was the night!
We came home and I cleared off the table, set it, and then made the pancakes. They were good! I served them with some kabocha cup soup and salad, plus bacon. I cleared the bacon with F because of his “no meat” stance. Apparently bacon isn’t meat!
For some reason, F’s pancakes were a little darker than mine ( I did his first) but for the first time in ages, we didn’t fight over dinner. I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed our meal tonight. It was lovely not to fight or argue over which restaurant/style of food would be better.
That’s it for me. I’ll probably be back to my normal style tomorrow night. Oh, and I received FIVE postcards in the mail today. Details will follow, eventually. Night.
2 comments:
I have one friend just like yours whom I've given up on, too. My heart yearns for her friendship because we've been friends since 7th grade. The last straw was sending Christmas and birthday presents and not receiving any acknowledgement that they even arrived. I'm sorry, but I always send out a thank you for gifts received and expect the same in return. Is that too much to ask?
Oh no! Not even an email to say thanks? Definitely not too much to ask.
I haven't known my friend quite as long, but we were in University together, so I've known her a long time.
It is sad to have a friendship fall apart.
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