Old World United

For the first time in a while, my entire family was home for dinner tonight. That's something that is hard to come by, considering my twin brother is almost never home, my dad typically gets home late from work, my mom goes out to dinner with work friends about once a week, and I'm usually not home about half the time. Believe it or not, my family has been a source of some negativity in my life recently (absense of my brother and stress from my parents), so a nice meal together was just what I needed to transform my vision of my family back the way it once was.

My parents had wine with dinner, Andrew had Yuengling, and I had Blue Point (even though I'm almost 23, it still feels weird when we all drink together... but I like it). Jeopardy was on TV as usual, but we didn't pay any attention to it (usually when Yolanda Vega comes on during a Jeopardy commerical break to announce the daily lottery winners, we all shout out what we think the numbers will be before they pop up, as my mom continuously attempts to impersonate Yolanda Vega's accent... but not even that happened tonight) - we were too busy talking about whatever was going on with our lives these days and finding opportunities to poke fun at my mom that resulted in everyone laughing. It reminded me of old times. It was refreshing.

Things aren't quite the same on the friends front. Not to say that things are bad... but there are some some individuals I haven't really spoken to and I would like that to change. Furthermore, there seems to be this sort of generally unspoken tension I'm sensing from various people in regards to differing perspectives on friendship trajectories.

This probably doesn't make any sense.