Rainy days and Headaches

Today is day 3 on the headache that won't quit. It may have to do with the nasty weather we are having up here. It snows one day then its 58 degrees the next and rains. Most likely it will freeze all up tonight and the driveway will become a sheer glaze ice shoot.

Nothing much has progressed forward in my moving out/move forward portion of my life, though I keep plugging on anyways. Packing takes up a lot of my time. I really need to get back to some work for the show that my friend will be taking my woodburned boxes to, otherwise I won't have very much to sell and then I will have no one to blame but myself if I don't make any money.

I have noticed a disturbing trend in my life lately, however. People have seemed to have stopped listening to what I say, or I notice that all they seem to talk about is TV. It makes me sad, as I don't spend a lot of time watching TV, so I don't have much to contribute to the conversation. In a time when I need friends the most It makes me sad to see so many of the people that I thought were my friends actually could care less about me...

One of the people I actually have been talking to a lot and I have put her in my "support network" catagory of friends gave me her opinion that she has had that happen to her as well and she considers when people stop listening or caring, maybe you have grown beyond what that friendship has to offer and that friend has become "demoted" to an acquaintence. She didn't actually use the word demoted...that's a me-ism, but that was the jist.

I wonder if I am shedding friends like a snake sheds its skin, or if this is the crunch time they talk about when you find out who are your real friends and who are just fair-weather friends.

But I am a firm believer of quality over quanity...so If I have a few good friends over a vast multitude who are there for show, I'll count myself lucky.

It doesn't hurt any less though when you are talking to someone and their expression changes to a "nobody home" look.

I guess I'll have to wait and see who is left standing beside me when the dust settles.