30 day Know Me, Love Me! Day 2- ppl I have been closest to the longest....

I'm digging some of the activities that I have seen on Facebook or other blogs.  So I am going to apply it here on my own blog.  :)  It is called "30 day" where you post a picture and write a short reflection of the theme for that day.  For the first day, you are supposed to add a picture and type 15 facts of me.  Well, I already did 25 things about me, so I will count that as day 1.

Day 2- A picture of a person that I have been the closest with the longest.

My twin brother, by 30 minutes- Bryan

 This is the my most obvious answer.  He and I go WAY back.  Way, way back.  In fact, so far back that I remember seeing him the minute our eggs were released and sperms raced to get to us.  I was hoping he'd make it too; after all I knew I would be the first to be fertilized.  I thought it would be nice to have someone else to hang out with in that dark place for those 9 months.  Despite he being a boy, and I a girl, we have been very close.  Admittedly, once he went away for his 6th -10th year of college in Lincoln, we slowly drifted apart- or branched out- depends on how you look at it.  At one time, we were pretty inseparable (out of the womb) and I enjoyed those times.  He always looked so cute in my dresses and ribbons in his hair....

Jenna, Melissa, Me, Jenn

 Well these girls were my rock in college and continue to be so. Through break ups of boyfriends, late night studies, sorority drama and mayhem, they had my back.  Even though I don't get to see them as often as I would like to now that we are all working, mothers, wives etc; when we do get to meet up, it is like we never left the AOII house!  There is no one else I would rather sing made up verses of song with; drink toga punch with; shop all day with; watch 90210 with every Saturday morning after drinking all night with; laugh or cry with (and sometimes it was at the same time!)

My BFFLMNOP, Becky

This is my first great friend that I had made as an "adult"- if you claim and adult 24 years old.  We met at a middle school that we worked at and developed a fast friendship.  She and I took some master's classes together, we vacationed with our spouses together and had kids in the same year (she is beating me by one kid...some day I will catch up!)  She has truly been there for me in all my worst days and nights, my highest of highs and my lowest of lows.  I know that she loves me know matter what and now that I am even farther away and she has a little toddler again, times are rare and in between- but when we do meet up it is like we never parted.  Cod with fries and jack and coke's for three dollars anyone???


Someone I knew (and THOUGHT was a friend) once said "Friendship is about proximity."  Well, for the most part I tend to agree with that.  You go through high school thinking you and your best friend will ALWAYS be friends, nothing will keep you apart etc.  However, it doesn't work that way. Life happens, people move, people change and grow, interests are developed or changed so then you take a look around and your best friend is no longer at your side.  But you pink promised, right?  You maybe even poked your little finger with a needle and SWORE you would always be there.  And some of you may have even put a wad of spit in your palms and shook on it.  (That would have been the end of our friendship if you tried that with me!!)  So friendship can be about where you live and how often you get to hang out.  Makes sense.
However the part I don't agree with is that friendship is ONLY about proximity.  No way.  I think we all have friends that maybe we've had since childhood, high school, or college or just the last job you had a year ago; and you still take the TIME to foster that friendship.  You call them, email them, FB them, write them, visit them whenever you are thinking of them or get time to do so.  If you were friend of mine- whether it has been 35 years like my brother and I; 16 years like my college friends; or 10 years like my co-worker- you will ALWAYS be my friend.  Maybe you know how you affected my life, maybe you don't.  But I can tell you that I do cherish everything we have been through and I thank you for your ears, tears, smiles and miles of friendship you have given me.  LOVE YOU ALL.