HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRIEND

To my friend who hates public displays of Birthday affection...I decided to publicly declare my love and adoration for you.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CORY!

"If you should die before me, ask if you can bring a friend."
- Stone Temple Pilots

I have had the great honor and opportunity to be Cory's friend for 16 years.

"It is by chance we met . . .
By choice we became friends."

We have shared countless memories and experienced many firsts, and many lasts.
In sixth grade Cory and I had a crush on a boy named Robbie. Our first love! (or so I tearfully wrote in my diary) We would prank call him and hang up. After school we could be found either walking OR following him home. When we weren't stalking cute boys on the playground, you could find us playing on the swings, inventing imaginary places, swimming in the creek, dressing up, roller skating, or hanging out at Rexall. I knew, even in sixth grade, that I was going to be friends with Cory for a long time. Maybe it was her contagious laugh, or her wild imagination, or possibly the way I seemed to throw caution to the wind when I was with her.

"If you have one true friend, you have more than your share".
~Thomas Fuller

Now that we are older, hotter, more mature, sophisticated, dazzling, brilliant, breath taking, adventurous, lovable, adorable.......
we pride our selves on the company we keep. I am not friends with Cory merely because of our history. I choose to have this delightful person in my life, and even though we have grown, our paths have changed, the quality of our friendship hasn't. We still laugh and cry together, get crazy hairbrained ideas that we think are brilliant, and now instead of rollerskating and swimming in the creek, we are visiting the Colloseum, swimming in a foam pit in Mexico, riding golf carts at midnight, or chasing birds in Canada.

"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere."
~Tim McGraw

Cory, you are a kindred spirit. My bosom buddy, and one of my best friends. Thank you for the times we've shared. I can't wait to see what the future holds for us. Whether it's taking another adventure, watching movies in our PJ's, or hooking someones backpack to a fence ;)
I know we've got good times ahead.

Happy Birthday and I hope your day is wonderful!

Text Messaging Gone Wrong

So, you could say that my older brother and I don't have the best relationship. It's about every other conversation that we have an argument. I guess this stems from our past. It doesn't help that in High School he would tell people that I wasn't his sister, and many times would leave me at school to walk home or try to find a ride (it was a joyous day when Lynze Wardle got a car). Point being, we still struggle to have even a civil conversation sometimes. This Thanksgiving we had another irritating conversation where I attempted to be nice and was shut down immediately.

This text to my sister is what followed:

"Nate's an ass. Hurry!"
(meaning hurry and get here since she was over an hour late!)

and what do I see as I'm sending it? Oh, just that I was thinking of Nate as I was sending it and being all worked up, accidentally put his name in the send to box.
SSSHHHIIITTTT!!!!! is what was running through my head.

So, feeling more embarrassed than bad about the text, I walked up to Nate and said, "Hey I just sent you a text, it was an accident" and walked out. He was already mid texting me back. The rest of the night was.....awkward. Looks like I ended up looking like the ass that night!
Hate when that happens :)

For the record, we did end up making up as we most always do after one of our petty arguments.

This is the closest I could find to an "Oh Shit!" face