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About a century ago, it used to be quite the done thing – that if you had an extra room, you took in a lodger to help pay the bills. These days, we certainly do need help paying ourrent, our mortgage or our utility bills. Sometimes, we need help even putting food on the table. Only we no longer go out looking for lodgers. We go out looking for a roommate.

When we take on a roommate, we think people are going to be decent. We think a roommate will behave the way we would behave if we were going in as someone's roommate. So, we just start the arrangement off on a handshake. We think that we don't really need to talk about anything practical in great detail, because of how awkward these things can be.

Well, things can get pretty bad. It can be hard to get your roommates to be clean, it can be hard to get them to leave if you don't get along, you can't always take for granted that your roommate will be honest , and if he doesn't pay what he promises to pay, in a month or two, you may be in terrible financial shape all of a sudden. You may find it hard to pay your own bills or even eat.ally know.

You may very well have friends that you have known since high school, but some people completely lose touch with most that they knew when they were in school. You can more easily than ever find those that you knew back then, but before you start adding everyone from your graduating class to your Facebook account, think about why you want to add each person. Some friendships end for a reason and some simply run their course. You want to continue the high school relationships that you treasure and that may still be valid today, but not all of them are going to stand the test of time.

High school relationships end for a variety of reasons. Many friends swear that they will always be friends and that they will always stay in touch, but that does not happen very often. The reasons vary, but many drift apart due to time, moving away for college or a job, getting married and having children, or simply no longer having anything in common. We think that all friendships are forever, but this is simply not the case. Friends are great, but we sometimes out grow some of them or we just change too much. That is a part of life. Remember that when thinking about trying to pick up where you left off.

One of my best friends in the world reached the half-century mark a few weeks ago, and I was determined that we were going to have the greatest 50th birthday party of all time. While it was definitely one for the ages, it did not go down exactly as planned.

First and foremost, we all sort of acknowledged ahead of time that we were all too old to have that much debauchery at his 50th birthday party and decided we would just keep it to a few beers and some snacks with regard to the refreshments and music for the entertainment. That lasted for about two hours, when we realized that were having too good of a time to stop and had a couple of the designated drivers go out and buy more alcohol.