Yeah, I think we have the opposite problem, Burrell. We don't have kids and pretty much everyone in our demographic does, so we just don't have people to hang with because their social lives do revolve around their kids.

In fact, we kinda went from hanging out with singles (we were more or less the first married out of our group) to couples before they had kids to now empty nesters. Which, okay, he's 40 and I'm 34, but we're not empty nesters. So, it's weird. It means we mostly hang with people who are not our demographic. Like his two buddies, who are early twenties, just out of school, single, trying to figure out their future. We're good mentors for people like that, but it's a different social dynamic.

I kinda relate to the whole Marshall/Lily couples dating thing. Sadly. Although now that I think about it, I probably relate to Lily way more than is good.

(eta: Anyway. I'm going to check on the SO and take a Midol and stoke the fire and watch Leverage. So I should be feeling marginally better shortly.)

Leverage is ♥ tonight. Great way to wrap up a season and leave you hungry for more.

I hope you feel better.

Liese, I totally miss that "just drop in and hang out" thing.

We stayed in the town we went to high school in after we got married, and a lot of friends did, too. Even after we had Jake, friends would show up on a Saturday afternoon, or we could decide last minute to go to the mall, and just hang around on a Friday night watching X-Files and having a beer.

I miss that desperately, I really do.

Thanks, megan!

My crankiness is low-level, but my introversion is high.

Oh, man, Olympics. Ouch.

Your crockpot (slowly) brings all the lurkers to the board?

I think I may have to tag this, despite the earworm.

Liese, I've got some houses for sale on my street. We're not total drop-ins, we email or call first, but... Cranky here, but I've got the weather and roads and insanity.

I love that another neighbor has called me from the road 2 nights in a row to vent.

God, i love my hood.

Gotta go to bed now.

I have tried some of megan's recipes and YUM. CJ really likes the pulled pork. I have a small crock pot and wish I could find a small cut of corned beef.

The cranky extends to Colorado.

Yeah. Hee. I am in my dream house, you are in yours! It's just that mine happens to be in the middle of the (gorgeous) high desert. Which comes free of people.

I realize I am a bundle of contradiction, because if people did just drop in, I'd be all People In My Space about it. But I can't help but miss it too. And it was a Hawaii thing, too. That happened all the time there. Not that I ever lived there. Just that when I visited, people were always stopping by to see my grandma or whoever.

Anyway. Leverage! And thanks.

Liese, one of the things I love about living in a rowhouse is that there is a healthy respect for personal space. We're on top of each other, regardless. So my neighbor who called en trauma route? Parked in front of my house. But didn't come to the door, even as I was talking to her. I waved to her on the way to the pool as she was going up her back steps.

It must be West Coast, because I have the cranky too.

Absolutely a West Coast thing, because I was cranky today. Spending the afternoon rummaging through a thrift store and scoring some good loot helped with that.

I just miss having people who could just come over and chill.

We encourage our friends to do that at House O' Reason.