Can you have sex with your best friend?

Disclaimer: Obviously, I’m talking about this from my own personal stand point but I’d love feedback. I’d like to know what other people think or if you’ve been in a similar situation. Opinions? LOVE ‘EM! Feel free to e-mail me or message me on Facebook, y’all!

Casual Dating and Hook-Ups: Antiquated social practice? Sluts on the loose?

Have you ever found yourself looking at someone and thinking “Damn, I’d totally hit but not commit?” “Ready to bone but stay alone?” “All up for mating but definitely not dating?”  or something along those lines. [It really didn't take too long to come up with these, surprisingly.] Why is everyone so hellbent on being monogamous?

I Feel Like I’m Going to Explode

The only  post of the summer.  With like 8 drafts in the dashboard. Haha.

Moving on…

2.5 hours until I leave Texas.

How many hours have I spent here this summer and why doesn’t it feel like enough? So many things that I could’ve done, people that I could’ve seen “If I had…” but would I have really? No one knows.

This hasn’t been the best summer I’ve ever had but it’s possibly one of the most rewarding. For 2 months of my summer, I got paid to hang out and make arts and crafts with little kids. I bonded with 3 very different, very special women who made that experience even more amazing.  The DMA was a wonderful place to work this summer. It was definitely unforgettable from the cute 4-5 year olds, to the far-too-touchy-feely 9-12 year olds, to plastic tile mosaics and cardboard furniture, to crashing the Go Van Gogh van and irresponsible adults, but I wouldn’t have traded it for a different summer.

I also realized that I really do have an amazing familly here in Texas. My 3 sisters, my group of best friends, my family and my shoes! Haha. Honestly, though there were some rocky bits with a certain individual, Texas will forever and always be my true home. Although I have another family in Missouri, it could never replace all the love and all the memories that I’ve made here (and vice versa.)  Dallas and Allen are nothing really special in and of themselves because my true attachment is to the people that have been with me and continue to be there with me through some of the best and worst moments of my life.

I find myself often complaining about what I don’t have, what my parents can’t do for me, what I should expect but I just as often take for granted all that I do have. It’s moments like these, the ones where what you care about most must be left behind (even if for a little while) where you remember all that you have to be thankful for. For you to truly see how blessed you really are.

It’s taken all that I have in me not to cry while writing this but the appropriate moment will come.

So this is my unofficial goodbye to Texas and my family. My journey back to Mizzou will be a somewhat reluctant one but I’m sure my reluctance will be replaced with warmth and reassurance when I finally get into Columbia.

Home is where the heart is, right? The Lone Star state is pulling on my heartstring but the ones in the Show Me state are slackening slightly.

What is it that I feel like I’m missing?

Disclaimer: Ramblings about relationships. About wanting to be single & taken at the same time. About being conflicted and confused. Not really coherent but if you’ve been where I am, you’ll get it.

10 Things That Should Occur on Both Sides of a Relationship

Disclaimer: These are in no specific order. I was just thinking about things that have happened in my current and past relationships that I really appreciate. Don’t take this too seriously. I’m just musing.