challenge day 6: bff.. or not

tell us about your best friend when you were 16, and where you two stand today.

so.

when i was 16, i had two bffs and we went everywhere and did everything together. we'll call them harry and larry. harry and larry and i were inseparable and just alike and loved each other like sisters. but i was a little wild in high school -- i hadn't quite figured out who i was and i sort of blew around with the wind, drifting around life until something got in my way and i'd have to drift in a slightly different direction. harry and larry were more confident in their personalities and lives and "selves" and i think that was part of the reason that moe (me) drifted toward them.

then came "nate". he was a boyfriend of mine and, i'll be honest, our relationship was a little ridiculous. well, harry and larry, being the great friends that they were, embraced nate (okay, all the boys names are getting weird, but follow me). and he embraced them. very well. nate ended up being a jerk, and i had to travel a long, hard road to find that out. literally. like. literally.

anyway, things were never quite the same with me, and definitely not with harry and larry and me. in fact, i got myself into a spot of trouble that harry and larry just happened to help me find.

and harry and larry let it happen to me alone.

and proceeded to tell me everything wrong with me. and some of what they said was right. i was not a great friend to them. we were not great friends to one another. i didn't know who i was, and certainly they could not know me if i didn't know myself. i did foolish things, more foolish than most teenagers even. i was thoughtless and careless and quite selfish, too.

and where are we today, you ask? well. harry and larry are around. we've found each other thanks to facebook. i've looked for years and years for them, to let go of a burden of disloyalty i have carried around for a long time. i often have felt we could still be friends, even today, but for being foolish young people. harry and larry may or may not be close today, but harry and larry and me are very, very distant and different and done.

i hope this wasn't too confusing lol. you will hear more about harry and larry soon. stay tuned. why would i include a question like this?! i hope y'all stories are much more uplifting than mine.

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5QF

i'm linking up with mama m. again this week for five question friday. just like i love wednesday, i love friday. i get two fridays in a row with my job, but the second one (the actual friday) is the best. tonight, sergeant j and i are watching grown ups and couples retreat and having italian sammy and soup night :) i can't wait to hang out with my hunk-a burnin' love! (can you tell i just left mama m.'s blog? haha)

challenge day 5: without you.

something you could definitely live without.


haha... well, i could live without hair growing on my legs every time i shivered. and milk, but not cheese. and toenails that have to be clipped, and snoring and sinus problems and migraines. i could totally live without insurance companies robbing my family and (don't shoot me) obamacare. and i could live without knowing about calories (that's the rudest discovery of my adult life). i could live without ridiculous people getting rich from doing ridiculous things...

(ahem johnnyknoxvillekanyewestlabronjamesoprah-ok-she-doesn't-do-ridiculous-things-exaclty-but-i-can't-stand-her-anyway cough cough)

new math

and especially ignorance. or whatever it is that makes people think that the world is about them. i mean, i'm all about being firm in your beliefs and opinions, but the whole point is to deal with one another in love. just because you and i don't agree doesn't mean we don't like each other. we don't like each other because you're hateful haha... but seriously. nothing gets under my skin more than someone who has an opinion and holds it, self-righteously, above anyone else's intelligence. rude. those kinds of people who feel that their time or safety or voices are all more important than anyone else's (for example, the people who drive like maniacs and put all our lives in danger).

as marybeth maybel would say: "A wise man once said, try not to get too attached to a hypothesis because its yers." (if you don't play video games, you can ignore that!)

anyway, lots of things irk me but hey, it takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. and i'm glad God didn't make everyone like me.. nothing would ever get done! (except the world would be full of sweet blogs :] haha )

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