The plan for tonight was to go to Adam's brother Teddy's house, and then we were going to go to Pop's Nightclub to bring in the new year! But instead, we ended up staying the night at their house... Everyone was drinking except me, with being pregnant of course. I'm not much of a drinker anyway, not in front of strangers at least. It would have been fine with just Adam and his brother's family, but there were other people there I didn't know. Someone called Lois and Dave. Can't say I was very impressed by them...
Adam had a little bit of some sour apple pucker. I think he bought it for the shotglass more than anything else, because he didn't drink much. He's not much of a drinker, either. Anyway, when it was bedtime, they blew up an air mattress for us to sleep on in the living room. I couldn't sleep. I was so homesick :-( I think I had finally passed out around 6:00 in the morning...
I remember when I was a kid, trying to stay the night at my friend Cassandra's house. Everyone else went to bed and I was left awake by myself. I had to end up coming home that night because I got so homesick. I thought about - what is my Mom doing without me? I could be at home right now doing something I like rather than listening to everyone else sleep and having to be quiet. And it was the same then as it is now. I wanted to go home and sleep in my own bed.
The only time my homesickness started to go away was when I met my best friend Tahnee as a teenager. I stayed the night at her house, and it was hard at first, but something about her, her house, her family, and the time we spent together - I guess I didn't feel like an outsider. And she stayed up with me, too, so I wasn't all alone, until we were both ready to pass out. She really helped me get through it, and she's the first person I could ever stay the night with without having to go home in the middle of the night.
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