I just called Kathleen and she told me she was walking from Buffalo into Ontario and that there was a hot air baloon overhead that had a light glowing inside making it look like a big orange moon and that she could see the mist rising off of Niagra Falls and she could see the lights of the city ahead and she was about to cross the United States/Canadian border and she was going to talk to me on the phone while she did and it would be like I was there...and it was.
We talked and talked and she told me all about camping and her road trip and how excited she is to get here on Saturday and to be here forever with me and how she sent a big huge box of clothes from Indiana to arrive here about the same time she does and she told me their house got burglarized twice before she left South Bend and that her ice skates got stolen (horrible, horrible thieves!!!!) and something of Charles' and something of her roommates but I can't remember what because I was so shocked about the ice skates and then all of a sudden she said "I see them omigod I see them there they are there's the falls!" and we were both silent for a moment and I could hear the water rushing and then Kathleen told me how happy she was that I could be there to see them with her. And I closed my eyes and listened to the water and imagined how good it must feel to be in her shoes at that moment. Then she said "okay, we saw it, let's go get a burger" WEEEHAW! That's good ol' american ADD for ya...
When we hung up the phone the feeling of anticipation and excitement at the prospect of her arrival feels like a hot air baloon in my chest. And I am so excited, my head must be glowing orange like a big moon. My best friend is moving to nyc!!!!! (We haven't lived in the same town since we were in high school, but have kept extremely close and see a lot of eachother through the years, all the same...) My best friend is moving to be with me!!! (me and my stupid rhyming again...)
Posted by Maria at May 29, 2003 09:34 PMmaria-I'm really happy for you about your friend. Sounds great. Me & my best friend Jill went to school together K-12 and we were like peas and carrots and now...I can't remember the last time we spoke. Sorry if I sound depressing..I'm menopausal right now, I could start crying at the drop of a hat..Emotional rollercoaster! I do feel compelled to tell you I'm not actually old enough to be going thru menopause, but am having some female troubles and I'm taking Lupron injections that have thrust my body into menopause..this sucks...anyway, where was I? Oh, you and Your friend :) Don't ever let her get out of your grasp..it's so hard to reconnect with someone when you let years go by. Enjoy being together for as long as you can.
Posted by: sandy at May 29, 2003 11:42 PMWhat is funny to me about Kathleen and I is that in high school we had all these plans and all of these dreams, and bit by bit, they come true despite the distance that has always separated us. It has never stopped us from traveling together and visiting eachother and writing letters and talking on the phone...It is such a great feeling. (I also know what it's like to lost touch and it makes me sad too) Her dad used to always say "you guys should move to NY while you're young and focus on your writing...I would give my right arm to live in NY again..." So a couple of years ago I moved here and now she is doing it too and I feel like everything is falling into place in a way. I can't imagine life without her. I swear if we were gay we would get married...but we're not, too bad.
That sucks about the hormones. I get really bad pms. I can only imagine what menopause is like. (It's not going to pretty when I get there -I am already an "overly-emotional" lady...)
Man, I am a master with the grammar today. (Maybe because I worked on a 90 page brief this morning and my brain is f-f-f-fried).
Posted by: Maria at May 30, 2003 11:55 AMmaria, I know you have a mother that probably "nags" from time to time, but make sure you're getting your pap smear every year..I let mine go for 4 yrs and finally went..I fucking hate going to the doctor, anyway I had 13 cysts removed from my ovaries, and if I had of gone I could have escaped surgery and this whole mess....I was in so much pain during PMS and every woman in the world says it sucks, so I thought I was normal, but PMS shouldn't be too painful, so take care of yourself and get the pap smear, so very important...okay, taking off "mommy" hat now...
Posted by: sandy at May 30, 2003 01:50 PMLOL that is hilarious because my own mother is deadly afraid to have a papsmear. She's had ONE in her whole life and afterwards she came down with a wicked YI and then all of a sudden a million other problems, she's petrified of them ever since...I, however, have one annually and am always much relieved to find out everything's in good order. I can't believe you had 13 cysts removed! That's incredible.
Posted by: Maria at May 30, 2003 02:11 PMTell me about it...they showed us the pictures and they are now using those photos in medical books. It looked like a mushroom field in there. My doctor said he didn't know how I had been able to work for the past year. But these lupron injections have me so messed up. I'm a walking basketcase, my family knows when to scatter though. I couldn't open a bottle of mayonnaise the other day, so I yelled and threw it out the back door in the yard, than I was fine. My husband just sat there with his mouth open, he finally said, "honey do you want me to open the jar?" I was like "No, fuck that jar." I'm losing it..haha..
Posted by: sandy at May 30, 2003 02:25 PMOh man that's rough! Sounds like you need to have a blog so you can vent. (coincidentally, in a fit of frustration, my big brother threw a jar of mayonnaise out the second story window of our apartment one time...that's weird...)
Posted by: Maria at May 30, 2003 02:48 PM