This post last week on She Wears a Red Sox Cap sparked my interest. In it, Kelly talks about how she’s always had guy friends and her opinion on girls and boy’s who are friends.

I wasn’t the girl who was friends with the boys. Even though I’ve always had guy friends, I’ve never been really close with them. I guess me and Eric were pretty close for like a month before we started dating, but clearly we started dating eventually and I liked him for about five months before we started dating so clearly we were never “just friends.”

Now girl friends, that’s a different story. I’ve always had close girl friends and even though I know a lot of women who say they don’t get along with other women/girls because they are too catty, I’ve never been that girl. Throughout my life, the people I was always closest with were my girlfriends.

Now, on the subject of whether or not girls and guys can be JUST friends. I’m torn on that topic. A part of me says yes, I mean I have lots of guy friends after all. But, at the same time, I wouldn’t consider any of my guy friends “super close friends” and I never hang out with guys alone.

Most of Eric’s friends are guys too and, to be honest, I don’t know how comfortable I would be with him hanging out with girls, especially alone.

All that being said, I know that some guys and girls are friends, good friends. Some of my close girl friends are really close with their guy friends so I see it happening. I also see that more often than not, one of the two people in the relationship is harbouring feelings for the other person (like mine and Eric’s “friendship”).

Like Harry said, men and women can’t be friends because the sex part always gets in the way. Amen.

What do you guy’s think? Are you a girl with a lot of guy friends or a guy with a lot of girl friends? Can guys and girls JUST be friends? Do you/would you get jealous if your SO hangs out with the opposite sex?

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Funky town has passed – my semi-depressive state has moved on with the heat. Thank god.

A few things I did last weekend to cheer myself up; I slept, I cooked, I baked, I drank red wine, I read a book, I layed outside, I invested myself in a work project, I ran, I spent time with friends.

A delicious dinner that I spent two hours making on Saturday night, while listening to music and sipping on wine:

Chicken and asparagus pasta courtesy of Spark People.

Zucchini brownies courtesy of Spark People, only 100 calories each!

Oh, I also booked a trip home in September and planned two birthdays for myself; one in Kamloops and one in FSJ. Hey, a girl only turns 21 once, right?!

So, in light of my new, more-positive attitude I’m going to list some things I’m looking forward to…

In the next day, I am looking forward to Big Brother, tonight! Can’t wait for Jeff to use that mystery power to turn the house upside down. PS: Thank you, America for voting for Jeff. I <3 him!

In the next week,I am looking forward to going to see the Time Travelers Wife and Post Grad – two great looking movies. I adore Alexis Bledel and I get shivers every time I see a trailer for the Time Travelers Wife. Eric Bana is hot.

In the next month,I am looking forward to going home for a visit, celebrating my 21st birthday, starting school again and all my friends moving back to Kamloops for our fourth year!

In the next year, I am looking forward to graduating and getting my undergrad degree!! There might be more school in my future, but not for a few years, I hope

OK, your turn! What are you looking forward to in the next day, week, month and year??

Today is my Dad’s 51st birthday, so I would like to send out a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to him. Love you, Dad.

Interesting facts about my family. My dad is 30 years older than me and we both have the initials A.Y. we also have the same skin tone, I got my red hair and freckles from him! People say I look just like my mom but I have my dad’s colouring. My mom is 30 years older than my brother and both their initials are L.Y. and they both have olive skin and tan easily whereas me and my dad burn in the summertime and just get really freckly! I always thought that was kind of interesting!

Anyways, my dad has always been there for me, driving me back and forth to countless hockey tournaments in the winter, to lifeguard courses and swim meets in the summer and everything in between. Whenever we had any kind of sporting event I could count on my dad to be the loudest voice in the crowd! I remember my first year of hockey I was standing in front of the net, trying to stay up because I still couldn’t skate very well then and I heard my dad’s voice from the stands, “STICK ON THE ICE” and whoosh, down went my stick to the ice!  He was definitely my biggest fan

I am running the Scotiabank half-marathon on June 28 to raise money for the Heart and Stroke Foundation since my dad had a heart attack last August. If you’re interested in supporting in my run, go here to donate! I still have a ways to go to meet my goal of $2,000 and every little bit helps!!

Here’s some pics of me and my dad, the first one I have no idea how old I am, I’m thinking between one and two? And the second one is at my graduation three years ago!

Time to announce the winner of giveaway #1, for the larabars and clif bars! I went to random.org and plugged in the numbers and the winner is…….

………….Amber from A little pink in the cornfields!! Yay, Amber is just getting back into running so I’m confident she will put the bars to good use, they make a great pre-run or post-run snack! Amber, email me at amber (at) girlwiththeredhair (dot) com and I’ll get your address from you and send you these yummy bars straight away!

Today’s the last day to enter the giveaway for the book, so if you haven’t already you better get on that!

Me and Eric went to see UP last night. It was such a cute show, I’ve never watched a 3D movie before so that was really wild! It was definitely a sad movie and it got me thinking, do you think it’s harder if the husband passes away first or the wife?

 I’ve always thought that husbands depend on their wives more than the other way around, maybe not so much anymore, but back in the day the wives did EVERYTHING for the husbands. Cooked, cleaned, sewed etc. So I’ve always thought it would be harder if a wife died first. It’s also a little more unexpected to lose the wife first because women usually outlive men, for some reason I always feel more sad when I hear about a widower rather than a widow. I don’t know why that is. What do you guy’s think?