Egg Opens Up Her Home And Self

For a long time, I was accustomed to living alone. I can't count the times when I lived with my family. I've had some roommates, all of different backgrounds and personalities at various stages of my life. The best roomie had to be Angel Jr, who stayed with me for about three months. We just clicked perfectly and never had any serious problems, except when he had to deal with my hormonal rages. I can be such a crab hehe!

Recently I opened my home to a friend, who just moved back to the area. She's in my age range, and pretty down to earth. And also very artistic! And compared to the Egg, she cooks on a regular basis. Perhaps I can pick up some good habits:) I just hope that she likes it here. All is fine, except I think I'm more hyper and tend to talk about anything and everything. My worry is that she'll get annoyed with my quirks! I suppose if that does happen, then I'll just have to accept it...

Living alone means too much freedom. You can be a slob, talk to the wall, fart without inhibitions, keep opening the fridge every hour (when you know there's nothing in there except for condiments), etc. Once a person shares the same dwelling with you, the right to respect each other's personal space becomes very important. Yet, parts of you will be exposed whether you like it or not. Don't worry...I'm keeping the farts to myself! I can't believe I just wrote that...

Channeling The Dark Side

For the past two years I've been living without a television, which used to be one of my best friends. To my surprise, I had found that I could live without it. Don't get me wrong, I still catch episodes of my favorite 80's shows, Family Guy, or Daily Show if I get an opportunity. And if I do get an urge to watch anything, I usually find something on youtube (most recently it has been a fascination with 48 hour Mystery episodes!). Without the TV, I also read more books and took up new hobbies like gardening and facebooking...

I'm not going to criticize anyone who watches TV. It's entertainment, a learning tool and also a sleep inducer. But I'm also mystified by the crap that I find on it. When I'm having a slow night at work, I'll usually spend time with one of my elderly residents who happens to be a night owl. He always throws me the remote and says "It's all yours." While channel surfing, I came across "Megan Wants A Millionaire" and "Dating In The Dark." Obviously Megan is just using this show to boost her acting career. Good luck sister! I think I felt more nauseous by the "Dating In The Dark" episode. Two women rejected two great guys. One thought the dude was being too forward. Huh? What's wrong with that? It's not like he groped her or anything! And she seemed to like it. The second woman thought her guy wasn't tall enough, but that everything else about him was fine. They didn't even give the guys a chance. Well good luck to those sisters too! I got so mad that I turned it off.

Once again I had to remind myself that the TV isn't always reflection of me..."It's not always about you Egg. There's lots of nutjobs like you out there." Okay at one time in my life, I also judged guys based on their height or touchy feely ways. I realized later that one will indeed be left in the dark if certain imperfections, whether financial or physical, aren't overlooked...Egg is quite happy with Mr. Egg right now. He thinks that she's crazy because she doesn't find his belly to be an issue...if it was a matter of morbid obesity, it'd be another story! And besides, he gives the best hugs:-)

Egg's Sabbatical

So, I've been on hiatus since last year. Not because I was traveling to exotic places, or hiding in the witness protection program. I simply slacked off and put the blog on hold...I apologize for the disappearing act, which was sudden and without warning. Basically I lost the courage to write. I found that I had lost inhibtions with the writing (you know...opening up freely) and that sort of frightened me. Does that happen to anyone else out there?! You feel a sense of freedom when you write, and then later on, you're scared that you let yourself loose...Alas, I had to remind myself that I gained a lot of strength from reading your stories and comments which were always full of encouragement

I hope to catch up with everyone. And hopefully I'll have entertaining stories to share again. Jeez I look back at my earlier entries, and wonder what I was thinking with some of the rants. HA! They seem trivial right now:)