It's 1 am and I just finished a two hour chat with a long lost friend. I got an email telling me I had a new friend request today so I went to check it out..didn't recognize the name (he changed it) so I looked at the face and about jumped out of my chair.
The last time I saw this friend was right after Lexi was born. We were shopping at Target in Msla and ran into a couple of my friends from high school. I have often wondered since then what happened to my good friend. I have searched online with no luck and had really given up for now on ever finding out where they were today.
So I accepted him as a friend and decided that since I was there I should probably update with a few of the pages I've done lately (little did I realize how many I hadn't added yet so I was there a while). And then it happened...a chat button appeared and there was my friend with his ever famous, "Yo Blondie" that I knew so well. Of course, I use to be blonde when that was being used so often.
We chatted for two hours and it sure made me miss Missoula and all of the good times I had there. I couldn't tell you exactly when I met my friend, Rick, but I can tell you that he, Steve, Brent and I had been friends from day one and that if a girl could ever wish for amazing guy friends, they were it.
We talked about our lives now and about all the good times we had growing up. We laughed and then laughed some more. I don't think I've honestly laughed so much in such a long time. Of all my friends from Missoula, I've probably missed these three the most.
I met Brent on my first day in 6th Grade and it was like we had been friends our entire lives. I still run into him every now and then as we meet in our travels and I still love him like a brother. Of course, now he'd rather talk hunting with Andy. LOL!
I'm thinking I met Steve during my freshman year. We were in the same Earth Science class and I remember he use to come to school with the biggest hickies on his neck. He was a rebel and a smart mouth and he made me laugh.
Soon we were hanging out and he introduced me to Rick and I loved Rick from the moment I met him. He had this crazy grin that always made me second guess him...I was never sure if he was being serious or if he was about to deliver a punch line.
Now these two use to sneak over to my house in the middle of the night and try to persuade me to come out and run with them. They would knock on my window and whisper my name through my window. I would lay there completely paralyzed because I was sure my dad and mom were going to hear them at any moment and kill me! I never did sneak out...of course had I known that my parents were dead to the world when they went to sleep, I might have...good thing I was scared!
I remember them telling me about jumping on my trampoline in the middle of the night while we were all sleeping. There was a time when they sat in my driveway and watched our tv through the window as we all sat oblivious to them being there.
We camped out in the back of their trucks in the rain. We partied. We laughed. And we laughed even more. We listened to Adam Sandler CDs and sang along. These were my boys. These were the people I loved like brothers and I knew that they would always be there for me. Always.
Well, it has been about 10 years since I've seen Rick, about 12 years since I saw Steve and about 2 years since I've seen Brent. But I have to tell you that chatting with Rick tonight made me realize just how awesome they were and are and just how much I have missed all of them.
It brought back a lot of fun memories I had long forgotten and for that I'm thankful. Those were the days and I was a lucky girl to be surrounded by such crazy wonderful friends. It surely made me want to drive to the top of a mountain, kick back and listen to some Adam Sandler and reminisce. Of course, no one would get the humor like we did back in the day! Happy times, good memories, great people. What a way to end my day.