Why do there have to be two of me?

So tonight Alex and I got home from our ritual O.C. night at Hillery and Challis' to find that our answering machine light was blinking. Of course we got a little bit excited because no one ever leaves us messages (it's really kind of sad). So we play this message over and over and over trying to understand what the person is saying; they sound very inebriated. The message goes like this "Hi Mallory, it's Derek from just south of P.A. I've been thinking about you a lot and thought I'd give you a call because I'm in town." Alex looks at me like there is some guy I'm not telling her about, but I honestly can not place this guy. I actually scared myself for a minute thinking, "Oh no what if I do know him but haven't seen him in like 10 years and he has been stalking me?" Then it occurs to me that I don't know and have never known anyone from P.A. so how could I possibly know this guy? So then I start wondering how he got my number, and what was actually going on...so I called him. This is how the conversation went:
Derek: Hello?
Mallory: Hi, is this Derek?
D: Yeah! Hey! How are you doing?
M: Pretty good, I just got your message but I couldn't place who you were
D: Oh yeah, but then it just kinda clicked eh?
M: Well...no
D: Oh, this is Mallory Smith isn't it?
M: (as it is all coming together now) Yes, this is Mallory Smith, but you are probably looking for the one from Maple Creek.
AWKWARD SILENCE
D: ok, well...sorry about that...bye

So that was my exciting night...random guys calling for me and me left without the ability to simply say "wrong number" because when they confuse you with someone with the exact same name as you, you start to wonder if you're losing your mind

Yup, that's us and Gretzky 

But for real...that is my boyfriend Hans (right) and Paul (left) with Wayne Gretzky 

Me and Alex (right) on our roadtrip to Calgary- March 11 & 12 

Optimism vs. pessimism

Alright, so there are some people that are really hard to deal with sometimes, but they are your friends and you want to be good friends to them no matter what. You know the people that I'm talking about. Oftentimes these people are overly optimistic or overly pessimistic. So I think it's good to see the world for what it is...see the good in things, but if things are bad don't overlook the situation. Back to why I'm here...I have no problem telling people how it is. If someone is going to ask me for advice I will try and tell them what I think as straight as possible, without being completely tactless. So tonight when a friend came to me with a few life woes I tried to console her, tried to tell her what I honestly thought. That yes, things might be shitty now (since it was a guy problem) but that everything happens for a reason...if she is not with this guy, that means that she will probably stumble upon someone better and be thankful that she didn't stick with guy #1. I understand that when people are in a rut that they often do not really care what advice you give them; they are just going to sit there in their misery anyways. But I get very upset when someone asks for you to be a good friend, you try to be a good friend, and they throw something back at you like "ahh yes, the optimism of one involved in a new relationship, refreshing indeed." Hmm...how can I work on being crass enough to come out and say things like this: "He dumped you because you say bitchy things like THAT"