We, the people, love to celebrate. I often wonder what America (I don't mention any other country because I'm ignorant of all other countries' affairs. "Those stupid American's. I think I'll go to the Nike outlet and buy their products.") would be like without celebrations. I mean, we make up holidays just for the sake of it in order to celebrate. Halloween? St. Patrick's day? Groundhog's day? Alllll made up, but I love it. But as I celebrate my 50th blog post tonight by using my KFC gift cards that I got from grandpa for Christmas, I'll be sure to celebrate a few things as I drool over the mashed taters and buttermilk biscuits. So here are some things to celebrate:

• The precious union of love: I don't yet think of myself as old or weathered, but i find that the longer I go living in this world, the more of my friends find this love. One of my closest and most satirical blogmates, Mormonmetalmonster, is tying the knot this month. And while I hope that he still finds it in his schedule to post a few entries here and there, I am pretty excited for him. How he and his new wife met is pretty cosmic in itself.
  

Now I'm not a big advocate of this marriage thing. Let's get that straight. Sometimes, love just doesn't work out the way you want it to. Ask Bristol Palin. Hell, ask a lot of people. But here's to celebrating love. If you're happy, I'm happy (for the most part). And while traditional Japanese folks don't find this 'love' thing imperative to happiness, America has watched enough Nicholas Sparks' adaptations and Jane Austen features to know that 'true love will find you in the end.'

• Friends. This one is cliche. We all have friends, and we all love our friends, and we all wouldn't know what to do without them. But just because it's a common thing, doesn't mean its not something to celebrate. And let's be straight here, friends come in a few different catagories:

Past Friends: Sometimes you look back on life for a second, and realize that some of your best friends five years ago are nowhere to be found today. You may not know which station any of them are at in life. But I think that's okay. All that matters is at some point, at some time, that friend was there to brighten your life. And it means a lot to you. Where would I be without Derek Lemmon introducing me to Incubus? I mean, I don't even listen to that band anymore, but whoa...when I did. Where would I be without Robbie Thomas teaching me how to make fun of people? The art has truly been perfected. And it doesn't mean I'm not friends with these people anymore, but its not like we hang out everyday, and that's okay.

Current Friends: Every year, I feel like I can ever have another group of friends that I love as much as I do at that time. And it's true about this year too. And it's really strange--you meet these people in the most unlikely of places. Every night I sit back and think, "my life is amazing, and it's all because of other people." If life goes on as it has been going, I'll have the greatest friends in the world by the time I'm 60, and after that, maybe I'll have enough practice to BE one of those great friends.

• I don't think anything else I can say will top the first two things to celebrate, so let's just celebrate those. This blog post is getting too long, so let's also celebrate Blogs, for gosh-sakes.