Today I made the trip to Champaign to have lunch with my fantastical friend Amy, and let me tell you that it was a much needed lunch. I love the fact that Champaign is only a little more then 1 hour away, it's a perfect meeting spot for me to meet up with my friends. We talked about trying to meet once a week or at least every other week and I'm hoping that I can make that work. Sometimes the phone calls, texts, and emails just don't cut it, you need to have the face to face conversation. I was thinking too that because Champaign isn't so far away and it's so easy to meet up with friends then maybe I won't make to much of an effort to make friends here. I was just thinking that yeah, I can handle meeting up with my friends once a week and I don't have to worry about people getting to know me and trying to decide if they like me or not, because let's be honest I am pretty harsh and very hard to like.....well sometimes. I know that's not the case and I know that I'll make friends here, it would just be so easy to not have too. It would be so easy to just stay holed up in my house and only venture out the get food and get Peyton from school, but in all actual reality, I do need friends, I do need them to be 5-10 min. away. I can't just rely on my friends from Arthur, even though it would be so easy to do that. I know that I'll always have my friends in Arthur and that won't ever change but I'm also ready to meet some new friends too, hopefully some that like Lamar because he can be pretty difficult sometimes.....oh wait that's me ;) I'm just glad that I can alway rely on my friends from Arthur and I know that will never change and that makes me so happy.