I will never do that. Well. Maybe just this once.

Some of my blog readers may be a bit surprised to learn that I lean a bit on the dramatic side of life.  Who am I kidding.  If you already didn't know that, perhaps we should spend a day together and then you can reassess my personality :-)  I feel.  That's the best way to describe myself.  I feel....deeply.  I think we all "feel" on some sort of continuum....my emotions just tend to land on the the more intense side of the continuum.  With this personality characteristic comes strong statements, positions, and declarations.  BUT, another part of my personality is in direct conflict with these statements.  The spontaneous and open-minded side of me.  Which makes me more likely, in action, to be more like "I will NEVER go there.  Unless you can make a partially-logical case, and then, maybe..probably... I can give it a shot". 

A classic example of this happened tonight.  We had our date night (wooohoo!) tonight.  First we at ate the new Noodles & Company in town.  Two doors down from our new Noodles & Company is our town's new Aspen Leaf Frozen Yogurt establishment.  Going into Noodles & Company I was making statements such as, "I am never going to eat at Aspen Leaf.  I am going to be loyal to Orange Leaf because they were here first.  And what town needs two self-serve frozen-yogurt places?  And why in the world do they both have the word "leaf" in them....isn't that a little fishy?!"  (I, of course, could look this up on Google but then that would stop the Seinfeldian self-talk and that's just not fun). 

Fast forward 45 minutes later.  We're leaving Noodles & Company and I make the statement, "Well, we could just try it.......see what it's like".  My "boy-cott" turned into "boy-that-sounds-good-right-now".   Of course though, upon leaving Aspen Leaf I did make the statement to Michael that I liked Orange Leaf better (what, with there funky cool chairs and all) and will continue to pledge my alliegence to them.  Michael of course chuckled because he knew that I would keep that loyalty until the next time we ate at Noodles and Company.  Sometimes my loyalty is a matter of convenience.....

Speaking of convenience...this reminds me of a time I rallied a handful of friends to boycott our dorm's convenience store at Iowa State because they sent me a rejection letter for a cashier job I applied for.  (I think it was called the "December 12th Movement--People Against the C-Store").  Which, my friends remained loyal to.  Until they saw me coming out of the aforementioned evil store with an orange juice and a pack of gum.  Hey, a gal needs an orange juice from time to time.  And the store is right there. 

Some might say it's a fault that I am like that, and to those people I say, fine.  We don't have to be friends, ever again.  Well, maybe we can still be friends.  Probably will be.  Okay, we can be best friends.