"Too bad we weren't lesbians..." she said.
"I know, it would be so much easier." I replied, without even flinching. We were sixteen then, and sometimes, even now, we still feel the same way. Not that our husbands aren't wonderful- just that girlfriends understand each other in a different way.
A gal's gotta have a bestfriend. Marissa has been mine for 15 years! We have the kind of friendship that is casual, everyday, no need for formalities. "Hey, what are you doing?" is the typical start of all of our phone conversations. Sometimes there is no real "start" to a conversation with us. We just simply talk like we never stopped talking, no formal hello or greeting. "I still can't believe how tacky so and so was..."
Marissa is the kind of friend that I can brush my teeth and talk on the phone with at the same time, and she won't even be irritated. I can answer the other line and not get back to her for half an hour and she won't get mad. This is how we are. We know we'll talk again soon, and something must have been pretty good to not click back over. We talk about EVERYTHING and ANYTHING. Who else could I have a half hour conversation about CLEANING with? And it is never boring.
Marissa and I have known eachother slightly longer than we've known our husbands. We are very close, like sisters, no- closer than sisters. We truly know each other in a way that nobody else does. When we were younger we played outside together, walked home from the bus stop together, and took turns walking each other home. We had fights and wrote each other nasty letters and folded them up in special paper folds and had other people give them to each other. We trick or treated together. When our small town finally got a Target store, we went together everyday and bought candy. We played MASH together. Then we got a little bit older and borrowed each other's clothes, makeup, curling irons. We spent hours making mixed tapes. We anazyled countless songs on the radio and learned them word for word- because those songs were about us and our lives. We spent hours on the phone together then- I think our record was 8 hours (even though we lived down the street from each other). We still spend hours on the phone today. We helped each other get ready for prom. We wished on stars while swinging in the park together. We struggled through first loves together before we found our true loves. We took classes in college and conquered 5 mile runs together. We've hated each other's boyfriends and parents as if they were our own. We've lied together, spied together and cried together. We lived together several times, ran away together, contemplated God together.
The same things make us mad. We have the same bad habits. We have the same core beliefs. Yet we are also very different. This is why we work together so well. A gal's gotta have a best friend. I'm so glad Marissa is mine.
A gal's gotta have a bestfriend. Marissa has been mine for 15 years! We have the kind of friendship that is casual, everyday, no need for formalities. "Hey, what are you doing?" is the typical start of all of our phone conversations. Sometimes there is no real "start" to a conversation with us. We just simply talk like we never stopped talking, no formal hello or greeting. "I still can't believe how tacky so and so was..."
Marissa is the kind of friend that I can brush my teeth and talk on the phone with at the same time, and she won't even be irritated. I can answer the other line and not get back to her for half an hour and she won't get mad. This is how we are. We know we'll talk again soon, and something must have been pretty good to not click back over. We talk about EVERYTHING and ANYTHING. Who else could I have a half hour conversation about CLEANING with? And it is never boring.
Marissa and I have known eachother slightly longer than we've known our husbands. We are very close, like sisters, no- closer than sisters. We truly know each other in a way that nobody else does. When we were younger we played outside together, walked home from the bus stop together, and took turns walking each other home. We had fights and wrote each other nasty letters and folded them up in special paper folds and had other people give them to each other. We trick or treated together. When our small town finally got a Target store, we went together everyday and bought candy. We played MASH together. Then we got a little bit older and borrowed each other's clothes, makeup, curling irons. We spent hours making mixed tapes. We anazyled countless songs on the radio and learned them word for word- because those songs were about us and our lives. We spent hours on the phone together then- I think our record was 8 hours (even though we lived down the street from each other). We still spend hours on the phone today. We helped each other get ready for prom. We wished on stars while swinging in the park together. We struggled through first loves together before we found our true loves. We took classes in college and conquered 5 mile runs together. We've hated each other's boyfriends and parents as if they were our own. We've lied together, spied together and cried together. We lived together several times, ran away together, contemplated God together.
The same things make us mad. We have the same bad habits. We have the same core beliefs. Yet we are also very different. This is why we work together so well. A gal's gotta have a best friend. I'm so glad Marissa is mine.
2 Comments:
Eileen, your dedication brought tears to my eyes! You are the bestest friend anyone could ever ask for, I'm so lucky I found you! (or did you find me, back in 1990 when you thought I was suppose to be at the elementary bus stop)? Looking younger than you today would be a compliment, back then in was an insult! If I only knew! And don't you dare rub it in that I'm 28 cuz in 6 months and 2 days you too will be 28 Missy May right along with me! Thank you very much for making my birthday so special. I know how hard it must have been for you to leave Isaiah for that long for the very first time (and you didn't even get a good massage to make up for the first real seperation from you son). And even though I know you were holding back for my behalf, you did so good today, I'm so proud of you. Im glad that you were able to get a break cuz you deserved it, you are such an awesome, hard working, mother. They say it is possible to make dreams come true, so maybe someday we will be neighbors in a 4000 sq.ft. house with a 4 car garage and 4 cars at the beach, a personal trainer, chef, maid, pool, waterslide, outside fire place, plastic surgery, a well trained dog, vacation homes, 2 to 3 vacations, stylist, frequent manicures, pedicures, massages, facials ect. ect. or maybe I'll just settle for the one thing I left out of my "perfect world", to be bestfriends with you for ever! Corny but true! Thank you for everthing today, I am so greatful! I can't beleive after 15 years we are still celebrating birthdays, and we still make it an all day thing, or shall I say a 2 week thing. Wow! I can't wait until I have a baby and then we can celebrate our kids birthdays with eachother every year for the next 18 years! I know it will bring our friendship to another level! Well thank-you so much for today and for the last 15 years!
Love, Marisa
Also thanks for letting us use the snorkle gear in Hawaii! It enhanced our experience!
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