Debbie Downers

OK, we all have one of these in our lives (and mine doesn't know this blog exists). There's no point in denying it. Mine called last night.

I have known my Debbie.Downer for more than half of my life. Really good person, however, when we talk, it's about all the things that have gone wrong in their lives. I was looking forward to talking to my friend last night since life has been chaotic, etc. I hadn't even told them I had moved and I received an email out of the blue. It was as though they were reading my mind about getting in touch. Gave them my new phone # and about 20 minutes later my phone rings. I didn't expect to hang up a little peeved that all we did was talk about them and all their "woe is me" crap.

I wanted to talk about moving, our soon to be daughter, etc. Happy things. Yeah, that didn't happen. It was all about the loss of their job, how they don't have any money, how they had to sell their cars because they couldn't afford them - even though I warned them not to buy them (an Au.di & a V.W. Tou.reg). You get the point. This person is very much a live in the moment type - there's always tomorrow/later to take care of things. This includes traveling and purchasing things they don't really need but have because it's cool.

I'm not trying to be malicious towards this person because they are a very good friend, however, being the person I am, I want to say, "I told you so!"

So now I'm in a bit of a mood because yeah I feel bad for them, but you made your own bed, now you have to lie in it. You're not getting a whole lot of sympathy from me. This situation kind of reminds me of the "Grasshopper and the Ant" story. The ant worked hard while the grasshopper played. I'm the ant (thanks to Lane's help) and the friend is the grasshopper.

Anyhow, it doesn't help that it's cloudy and pretty chilly outside either. I don't mind the clouds so much. I do mind the 60 degrees. It should be warm.

What's going on with our adoption:
We were able to go down and get our fingerprints taken yesterday thanks to the help of our congressman's liason. She is also going to make sure they get processed more quickly than usual so Lane can travel to China.
However, we're all (our travel group) still waiting on TA and still not sure if any of us are leaving on the 4th of June.
Most of this has to do with that stupid flu virus.
So all we can do is sit and wait.