Friends

Wheeeeeeee.

See, here's the thing about diet and exercise.

When you do a bunch of exercise, you don't want to eat junk. You just don't. You aren't bored or hungry, you're pumped up and happy. So, when your body is allowed and encouraged to eat more, you don't want it. But come the days you don't want to exercise, all you want to do is sit around and watch TV and eat a whole packet of something chocolate-y.

Which defeats the point.

Anyway, today was really good :) Woke up at 7am (on a Saturday, which sucks, but I've paid for it so I have to) and went to boot camp. It's not that hard, like, I don't feel like it's that awful, but it does mix it up for me and lifting tyres and sandbags and weights is cool. I like weights. Muscle is good. I like feeling strong.

Then I went to hang out with a group of friends. That was sorta boring, I don't have much in common with them, but it was great to see people that I haven't seen in ages and I missed. My friend is going to Holland for a whole year now, where her boyfriend lives, and so I'm probably not going to see her again for a long time. So I'm obviously glad I went.

Then I went to a Zumba thing, which went for about 2 and a half hours. It was a charity event for breast cancer, so there was Zumba instructors from all over the area there, all doing a few songs each. So that was lots of fun, though I felt a bit sick half way through. I don't know why, but I just felt queasy. Same at boot camp, except then it felt like cramps, and I don't get cramps. My best friend Jess, who I don't see much, except now we do boot camp together, was there so that was nice. I mean, it's mostly nonstop dancing but just hanging out is nice.

Last night I was hanging out with my bffl. We were doing a make up assignment, after being caught for plagiarism, for too much collaboration when we did the original assignment. I don't know why we did this one partly together then, considering it's exactly what we did last time with results that could have fucked up our whole uni experience. But she has the textbook cos I'm cheap and didn't buy it so I needed to work with her, and we tried really hard to just check answers, not have anything else done the same except by coincidence. But even so, we use basically the same method for things, because our knowledge of stats is basically just our combined understanding. We do all our work together in class and only ask each other when we don't understand. So really, if we do something wrong, we'll both have done it.

But either way, we spent a long 4-5 hours on it, after already doing it or 5ish hours that day. It's not done yet but we plan to turn our respective assignments in on Monday. They aren't due for two weeks technically but we want to show that we're serious. Hopefully he doesn't take it as us rushing the assignments, but we haven't thus far, we have put in considerable effort. Like, a lot. And he basically just added heaps of questions because he wants us to learn the material and study and make something good out of an error in judgement.

Anyways, the reason I actually brought last night up was because I was thinking about how effortless it was to spend that long just chatting away. Like, for example, I see her about 4-5 days a week, for extended periods of time. On Mondays in lecture/class, for 2.5 hours, plus chatting afterwards, then Tuesdays in lecture/class then I walk to her house after uni, we have dinner, then we go to hangdog for 2/3 hours. Then she'll drive me home and maybe stay for awhile to watch How I Met Your Mother. , then if we don't hang out on Wednesday out of uni, I see her in our lecture that night, and i generally drive her home. Then on Thursdays, I see her in lecture and maybe break. Then on Friday if she doesn't bug me to go running or something, I generally go to her house after dinner and we study for a few hours, which generally ends up eventually just hanging out in her room watching Modern Family or Big Bang or HIMYM or Glee. Then we sometimes make weekend plans too. Or plans involving other people too. Or lunch or something. Plus we text and chat and ring etc.

Like, literally, I see this girl all the time. But I seriously didn't realise how much until right now. Because she's so easy to be around I guess. Duh, that's why we're best friends. But I literally cannot tell you what we actually talk about. I saw a thing on Tumblr yesterday though that was like 'how I'm friends with my friends' and it was like 50% insult based humour, 30% pun based humour, 15% same taste in music and 5% deep connection and understanding.  That's pretty true I think. The amount of insults that get hurled around is very high. Actually she says it's because I'm just local, I'm way more convenient than another friend who lives in Shellharbour. But I think that's the insult based humour coming out.

Anyways, she's great. She's kind of a contradiction because she has that 'pretty and popular' vibe, and I mean, she is, but she actually is kind of a hermit that likes to hang out on Tumblr and watching Tv shows online and on other funny meme sites. Plus obviously she's a nerd. So we get along great, but we're different enough that we complement each other I think. We're generally on the same wave length, but we also approach things very differently and she's loud and outspoken but I have firmer beliefs in some things.

The point of this explanation of my bffl was this. Like 6 months ago when we went more hermit, she was like 'you and my bf are like the only people I can be bothered to actually organise to see, everyone else is like meh.'

And now I'm kinda feeling the same way. I mean, I don't have a bf and I do hang out with lots more people (social butterfly award goes to mwa) but most of the time, it's like 'meh, I guess I should go see them or hang out with her, or talk to him, or whatever, but I'm not actually crazy enthusiastic.' Like, my good/best (I have too many best friends, I don't know how to describe them). Though I was thinking about this today and she's more like my sister than my best friend. We don't hang out all the time, but I love her in the most forever way, if you know what I mean? Like family, I'm never going to let her drift away for good? So I'm always cool to hang out with her, as well as my bffl. But everyone else? Meh.