Random thoughts on a Saturday evening

I’m writing this freely. I’m not even looking at the page as I type, which is totally freaking Chris out, but I think it’s funny so here it is.  I have friends. Friends that are so varied and different I can’t even imagine how I can be friends with them all. Some that are so hip and cultured it makes me look like a reckless redneck, and some that are so recklessly redneck it looks like I’m from wall street. Friends that are from when I was in public and high school that somehow I still have things in common with or can relate to in some way. College friends that will always be my friends no matter what going on in my life. Somehow those are the keepers. Friends like Sheri and Corey and Gina and Giselle and so many more who have been with my since my third year of college at least if not before, have seen me at my most drunk, my most upset, my most insane and my most happy.  These friends are the ones I want to share my life experiences with, the ones that have been around to see my life progress in the way I wanted, the way I’d hoped. I want to be there for theirs, I want to see how they live, how they do with their lives, if they get married, have babies, get the jobs they want, go on vacations that are once in a lifetime, come to parties at our house, play with our daughter, get a dog or a cat or a parakeet (though I won’t visit if they do, birds are scary). I saw a friend today that I hadn’t seen in years, at least 9, maybe more, and it was good. Not awkward, though it should have been by rights. I don’t care what people say, facebook has been a great thing for me – I thoroughly enjoy keeping up with my friends. Even though it has been so long it doesn’t seem it, as I’ve kept up with her life and vice versa. As an example of this for my baby shower in Jan 2011 a friend came that I hadn’t seen in at least 7-8 years at that time. 7-8 years! That means you Jen. What a shock and how very cool she came.  That never would have happened without FB, regardless of how evil you may think it. Anyway, back to today. We have a shared love of books, this friend and I. That is constant, from when she knew me as a toddler to now – that hasn’t changed.  Just now we read grownup books and she writes some, too. See her blog here: http://sweetmarie-83.blogspot.ca/ (she has a few books out as ebooks, they're awesome!)  We were both so excited to meet an author from Ontario that we both love, that it overcame any insecurities we may have had stemming from not seeing each other in so long – who cares! We got to meet Kelley Armstrong!

 I haven’t blogged in months, and I’m not even convinced this is really a blog, I just blabber on and expect people to read it, but hey. Why not. Anyway I’ve been wanting to write about friends for a bit now, it came out a bit disjointed but I’m not the published writer in the group, right Marie? ;) I love ya’ll and I cherish the fact that I have so many friends in so many stages in life with so many differing personalities, it makes life so interesting. Love you guys.