You Take the Good and you Take the Bad

We’ve got a 6:48pm flight booked tomorrow for 4.  David, Joe, Gabe and I all going to Italy to see my sweet (yes, very sweet) friend Jillian, Colin, Ava and that little Miss Caprie. It is funny how I met Jillian.  A friend who played for the Lakers, you know my fave college hockey team, ended up playing down in Fort Wayne after he graduated.  Not only did we feed Dominic great dinners on Thursday but he helped ship at MJC way back before 435. Okay, like 2 years ago. He asked me if he could bring a teammate over for dinner and that Colin’s wife, Jillian, was a MJC fan. I was a tad nervous due to my lack of coolness yet agreed.  The moment I met Jillian I knew we could totally hang out. I adored her, she was funny, genuine and so fun to talk smack with!

Have you noticed how hard it is to find real good friends once you hit 35? It’s tough. Seriously, when I was young it was simple and it certainly helped seeing the same crew everyday at school. It totally nurtured the friend ship along.  MJC sometimes consumes my life and I totally forget I need to give my friends some attention or else I won’t have any. And hanging out with MJC when I am 50 may be a tad boring. I am not even sure where I am going with this post. But today really sucked. I’ll just lay it all out for you.

1. Lynette, Kayla and Sam are all  in CA with no internet or cell phones. These are my girls I can text, call, email all day about what I saw that was cute, who called who, some great idea ticking in my head and just about everything. I am lost without them. Feeling real lost!

2. I try to walk with my friend Anne everyday. I get held up and was 20 minutes late. I hate being late, it’s like saying work is more important than our friendship.  Seriously, being late is the one thing that irritates me the most. I hate when someone is late (yes, they can call and say they are late and it’s fine but don’t just leave someone waiting for 20 minutes like they have nothing better to do than wait.) Sorry Anne…but yes I did call.

3. All the girls at 435 and I went to lunch at our old stomping grounds Las Lomas.  I just adore my MJC girls. Renee and Vivian looked so dang cute! Seriously, and I’m talking behind their back, but we dress so super casual at work everyday. I mean we pull and pack, work our tails off so we must be comfy. Today those 2 got so cute-i-fyed. Omg, seriously!

4. I finally splurged and got the coolest sweater ever only to put it on and find a huge hole.  Ill survive though, I just need to exchange it..but I was so trying to battle for Miss Cuteness with the girls above.

5. David and I bought a house up the street to play around with. Ever since I moved down the street I miss fixing things up. My new house is perfect and I can’t think of one thing to make it any better.  We are pretty excited for this new project. We started painting tonite. I really need to take some pics.

6. I really miss my friends. I sat in the driveway crying because there was no way I would be getting on that plane tomorrow. And I hate that I let down Jillian. My boys were ok to just stay home. I think that is just what Joe needed. Gone 3 weeks in September, 2 in October and 2 in November has had a huge effect on him.  He has been me since the day he was born. He totally feels my stress. So while this weekend is not what it was intended to be it is going to be perfect.

You know, this week was full of stresses and today more so than any. But as soon as I heard about a smile I put on a friends face that was all I  needed to turn it around.

And my sweet Jillian, I love you so much for still being my friend when I am constantly putting everything in front of our friendship. I guess that is how you know you have a true friend. She expects nothing of me and only wants to see me happy. Thank you.

Man, I am lucky in way too many ways.

No clue why I put Gabe up there other than he is so dang squishable.  It’s not even a new pic.  It’s from Halloween 2009.