Home (Phillip Phillips)

There is nothing like a day where you make friends, laugh, and feel like you belong 100%. Today was one of those days and I know it seems funny but I'm starting to realize more and more that when you meet the right people then you don't have to work for it really at all - you just click. I'm working for an amazing family and I get along really well with the mom. The great thing is that the more I find myself fitting in the more confident I become, and the more people feel comfortable with me. Today I spent the day at a superbowl party with a bunch of twenty year olds I had never met before. Right away I felt comfortable and as the day wore on and we talked, laughed, played endless amounts of games and eventually related on several silly topics I was really relieved to find that there really are people in my area that I get on with quite well. I showed up at two thirty after wandering up and down their street about five times and creeping out a few joggers with their dogs. Finally when I made it, fully equipped with five decks of cards, a game called "What?" and two bags of chips. Everyone was downstairs watching the game. I was quickly introduced to logical Nicole, whimsical Emily, wacky besties Ben and Kaylee, outgoing Scott, silly Dan, orderly Ellen and technical Zach. That may or may not be how I remembered their names. ;) Amusingly, Zach turned out to be a lot like another Zach I used to know, even if we didn't really hit it off as instantly as some. Most of the girls plus Ben abandoned the football game pretty quickly for a long round of games beginning with 'What?' And moving to Catch Phrase, and BS. Kaylee and I (the name similarities between us had both our heads turning circles all day) hit it off over Supernatural, Doctor Who, and our mutual distaste for seafood. Once Ben and most of the other girls had left Kaylee and I were still chatting it up over some card games with Dan. We were, that is, until some very heated rounds of Nuts began (Thank God they had a different name for it - 'Nerts' is a little less suggestive than Nuts). As the game ended we drew a crowd to the Nerts table until Ellen, Kaylee, Scott, Dan, little Dan, Emily, and eventually even Zach had no choice but to join. By the time it was eight PM the crowd had dwindled down to Ellen, Nicole, Emily, Zach, Dan and I, who went downstairs to watch the Maze Runner. We joked our way through. Overall the feelings of confidence and belonging snuck up on me. There wasn't a single point in the day when I felt that I was being targeted, or even aggressively disagreed with. I laughed, I played, I even correctly referenced "'Tis only a flesh wound." much to the delight of my companions. I've been informed I must watch "Galaxy Quest." All in all I guess there really is nothing like a group of people that you feel a great connection with. Sometimes if things are right you can just feel it, right off the bat.