I noticed today that I am pretty much completely comfortable around my mom's friend and her family. I've known them since I moved here, since I went to school with her kids, but I never really talked to any of them until just a few years ago. Even then though, I was really cautious and anxious and shy, constantly thinking of what to say, or sometimes I wouldn't say a word. When a couple of them would come over for a visit, I wouldn't show my face much and I wouldn't talk to them. (I tend to feel even more nervous around visitors in my own home rather than at their place.
) Now though I can talk and laugh and hang around them without second guessing myself or feeling like running away. I don't know why I'm just realizing this though, I've been pretty comfortable for a little while now.
Whatever, that's my random [happy] thought for the day. I'm exhausted, and it's been a super long day for me. I'm going to go crash now.