new year

new beginnings. I know I won't keep writing in this journal even though I really should but I should at least make an effort to "blog" or write here.

I'm just going to start off on a rant because I finished off 2011 with a road trip to Utah and looped down through Las Vegas, ended at Disneyland>Universal Studios and drove back home. All in all about 2000 miles of driving. My friend who I used to think was my best friend didn't really act like a friend at all. Maybe it was because of his girlfriend's influence but still, human decency should never be compromised because of someone you're in a relationship with. Road trips are tough because of all the driving but this friend and his girlfriend did NO driving at all because they had no driver's license and had the AUDACITY to say to my face "we're really tired from the road trip so blah blah blah we want to rest". DUDE, SERIOUSLY!?!?! A thousand face palms to you, sir.

The trip went well but the stupidest thing was that the girlfriend was talking about how everything was over budget. Okay, first of all they "planned" on having this trip for about 3 months and didn't book any hotels or rent any cars but they bought their plane tickets a month in advance. So it came on my shoulders to call up hotels and try to find a car literally last minute and anyone and everyone knows that last minute plans cost an arm and a leg so it was their OWN FAULT that things went "over budget" because they failed at planning. They didn't plan or make any arrangements to see their friends in Utah and because things were so rushed, me and Maine didn't tell any of our friends that we were coming because we didn't know how much time we had available because we still had places to drive to (which obviously takes up huge chunks of time).

The day we were supposed to drive to Vegas from Provo takes about 6~ hours and Vegas>LA takes 4~ hours and we planned on leaving around noon time but we obviously had to eat lunch. Charmaine arranged for her cousin to see us and I arranged for one of my old childhood friends to come eat with us. I guess they assumed that since we had seen OUR friends that they could see THEIR friend, but they didn't bother to inform us that their friend was coming down to see them until after lunch. Charmaine and I were like, okay sure, we'll wait because their friend was a 40 minute drive away. 40 minutes pass and we ask; "sooo where's your friend?" Turns out she's taking A BUS from where she lives in Logan to Provo. =.= it's a TWO HOUR DRIVE by car and she's taking a bus -____- The thing that annoyed me wasn't that she came so late so we ended up way behind schedule, it was that they didn't communicate with us what was going on because if we had known that we had to wait such a long time, we could have made other arrangements to see our OWN FRIENDS. The whole mentality just felt incredibly selfish to me, yeah, "you said you're going to pay for everything but i'm not an indentured servant." it's called being a compassionate human being who's supposed to care about their friends.  I don't even want to  think about it anymore because it just reminds me of my other road trip with my ex gf and her friends and how awful that was. The last thing is that when we finally came home, I cooked dinner for everyone and they ate all our food and didn't even offer to help clean or anything. Am I a maid/butler now? Just because I'm a good friend/host doesn't mean you don't need to do anything or help out.

Why are people so inconsiderate? Am I just too nice and like to do things for other people and expect them to do the same for me? It isn't that big of a deal to offer to help out, or is it? Maybe I just expect too much from people or something. I honestly don't think I am, because I know all my other real friends would never treat me or my wife in such a rude manner.

End rant.