The Rough Patch Continues

Okay so clearly I’m horrible at keeping up with this blog-- probably because I’m embarrassed by how much I’ve let myself go. I’ve been so bad. I also know I still need to elaborate on my last post. Luckily, all these issues are intertwined so I think I can catch myself up in one long post.

This Lindsay < My Lindsay

As you all know, this project involves changing something that will inevitably have an impact on someone else; there is no one my personal change effects more than my best friend. Let’s call her Lindsay. She doesn’t want me to use her real name so I have chosen Lindsay, after Lindsay Lohan, because they both have a lot of freckles-- she will most likely kill me for this. The poor girl suffers from a similar gossip addiction as I, and is actually still recovering from a serious Perez Hilton problem she had back in 2008. We have a lot of similar theories regarding celebs and we spend a lot of time dissecting gossip as well as various aspects of the Real Housewives series. I am aware that it sounds like we have a shallow friendship, but I can assure you that we have plenty else to talk about as well.

Anyways, since I chose not to purchase a TV after moving to Athens-- thus not being able to watch and discuss Real Housewives—my decision to only catch up on gossip once a week has understandably been very hard on Lindsay. I should not have been surprised by her lack of support, and that being the unrelenting individual that she is, has knowingly precipitated my downward spiral into relapse with a simple text message regarding Blake Lively. Another thing you should know about Lindsay is that she is very passive aggressive. This is how it went:

Lindsay: Is it cheating if I read something and tell you about it? Because I’m really mad at Lainey right now. I want to know what’s going on with Blake and she hasn’t written anything

Lyz: Wait what happened to her????

Lindsay: I want to tell you but would that be infringing on the terms of your blog project?

Lyz: Maybe but just tell me, does it have to do with Ryan????

Lindsay: No never mind- forget I said anything. You can read about it on Thursday. In 4 days.

Oh Blake.
Of course these photos weren't staged.

See what I mean by passive aggressive? Well, as you can imagine I FREAKED out. Because I love Blake and was worried Ryan found out about her past and broke up with her. So I tried to distract myself by trolling Facebook in the hopes of finding something interesting to tide me over until Thursday. I’ve been doing that a lot lately when I feel like looking at gossip. Unfortunately none of my Facebook friends are really that entertaining, and I usually just end up stalking someone stupid like an ex-boyfriend or two-- which gets me nowhere. 

Another thing I’ve been doing is compulsively checking Penelope Trunk’s blog. Penelope is this brilliant woman with Asperger’s who lives on a farm and blogs about career and life advice. You would like her I think. I got really into her during my quarter life crisis last year and stuck with her because she is uninhibited and posts some craaazy stuff on occasion.

Although Penelope and Facebook can be interesting at times, they are no substitute for my beloved gossip columns, and as you probably guessed where this was going, I broke down roughly 30 minutes after the first text message from Lindsay was received. It was worth it, I will say, because I was so proud of Blake’s wedding tactics-- she rarely lets me down and I can’t wait to see her Martha Stewart wedding spread. Unfortunately, that one slip-up and the amount of joyfulness it provided, has made me feel that it is “okay” to continue to slip-up from time-to-time. And by “time-to-time” I mean almost every day since.

So, I think one of the possible solutions here is to get really serious about blogging more often. I’m going to really try to keep up with it 3 or more times a week, even if I have a ton of work. Also, I figure the more I blog, the more support I’ll have from you all, and the less I will be effected by Lindsay’s enabling. Thanks for bearing with me- I’ll update again soon!