Thanks! Giving pt 2

Family. I love my family, AND I like them too! I used to say, "Family are friends, that you're forced to have." But it never feels forced, per say, and there's only one uncle who is not fun to be around.

My other uncle and his family came over to the family's house in NYC for Thanksgiving dinner. He lives in Ohio, has a boy and a girl, 12 and 14, I think. He is a big family man, and at the same time his wife, originally from MD, is one who prefers to keep her children sheltered. So the children have this inner urge to be with family, but don't always have that chance. We were able to actually hang with them, and you could just see how much they enjoyed it. The girl even teared up, because she didn't get to see my nieces at church, before they had to leave. The boy was talking about how he wished he had a brother as well.

I think about their actions and words that remind me of how lucky I am. When I'm with my bros, we can go play basketball, video games, board games, scrabble, etc... Its somewhat cool. There are lots of people who are an only child, or have just one sibling, and I got 4. I'm just very thankful for them and my family. This was a good thanksgiving.

Thanks, giving.

Continuing from my last post .

Originally I was going to mention what its like balancing time between gay and straight friends. Having to hopefully map out weekends in advance, so I don't miss any important things, and I can be there for the people I consider "friends". However, as I was on my way home, I had this change of perspective.

I realized on some level, I was complaining about having friends. "Poor me... I oftentimes have to choose between sets of good friends." Yet, I realized I'm amazingly lucky to do that. Some people came to this area on their own, without knowing anyone at all. I'm here and am connected into a few different networks of people and have good friends in each. Basically if I was proactive, and made the first move, I could easily hang with cool people and good friends, whenever I want. That is something I very much take for granted... and I'm very thankful for it.

I look at the last week leading up to Thanksgiving. Saturday, I was with my brothers on a road trip-ish. Sunday, I came back and went to a pre-Thanksgiving dinner with roommates and good friends. Monday, I saw a movie with friends in VA. Tuesday, I caught up with an old friend from NY and played Halo with them. Wednesday, was a fun chill day with work friends. Followed by hanging out with other friends in VA. Followed by going to WTF? at Town to meet up with Freddy and the guys. Followed by taking a bus up to NYC for the holiday. Of course last week was special, and not particularly a common thing, but just the fact that it can happen truly humbles me and makes me grateful for all the people in my life!

Ooops(ish)

SO I haven't posted a blog in almost a week. Oops. I have been thinking of a number of different topics, and what I'd be saying, however, I was busy. And Family, Friends, fun and vacation definitely trump the daily posts. But I'm back home now, and trying to get things re-organized and set-up for this holiday season. I had an awesome time, pictures are slowly but surely making their way up to facebook, and I'll catch up on those missed posts pretty soon. I hope everyone had a good time, and I'm looking forward to this final month of the year, gotta end it on a high note!!