Mixing of Friends

Not to sound too egotistical or anything but I have a fair amount of friends. Not in a my-space-face-book-you're just a number to me sort of way either. I try to make friends wherever I go and I have been fairly successful in my travels. I've kept some friends since High School, separate years at college, from the gaming guilds I've had, work associates that have become friends, friends of friends and random people I've just randomly met. And while I'm pretty good at making friends I'm not too good at mixing them.

For some reason I have always just kept one group of friends separate from another group. Even the friends I made at college I have different groups for almost each year. Now this may make me sound like I lead different lives or that I'm fickle with people, or whatever but I'd like to think I try to be there when people really need me or when they just want to hang out. Sure this sort of thing would be easier if I hadn't been spreading myself thin but things happen, people move, and life goes on. If I didn't really care about these people I could have easily just let them slip away and never really talk to them again. Luckily (and maybe even the cause of which) I am an internet whore and keeping up with me is rather easy. I also have a fairly long commute which allows me time to call up people just to say hi.

And so, I finally get to the point. I have these groups of people that I know from different areas and times of my life and they are going to be invited to our wedding. Most of these people have known me for YEARS but don't really know each other at all. Sure some of them may know OF each other but haven't really had the time to get to know them like I know them, meaning, they would actually be polite to each other instead of instantly whipping into racial jokes, ass slaps, and drink requests. Yes, these are the types of people I tend to hang out with (are able to tolerate me).

And so because a wedding will happen eventually (if all goes according to plan) and these types of people will be invited I have to think of some way for them to realize that they all have hung out with me and have therefore gone through a social filter leaving only the awesome, nice and very very very patient. This usually means a party of some time thrown by me and filled with me introducing one person to way more people than a person can possibly remember instantly. But the way parties tend to happen is that people spend most of the night hanging out with people who they already know and that may leave out the nice and the very very patient of my friends. The awesome ones I never really have to worry about, they'll get drunk, drop their pants and start singing songs at any minute, with anyone who would join them.

So what I have started doing is start inviting a few from each group and forcing them to interact with each other in small intimate groups, until they realize that all sides are awesome and can be even more awesome together. Then I'll throw a big awesome awesome party, so everyone can celebrate how awesome awesome people are. And that, if I had my way, would be my wedding.

Is this being manipulative? Can I wear out the word "awesome" any faster?

Awesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesome.