thread throughout all seasons

the person who currently knows me the most intimately (since she lived with me for a number of years and also has the title of closest friend) called me during her lunch break today.

so good to connect.

this is the first time, in oh, three to four years, that we have not talked at least once a day…  she started a new job last month with a new commute which means we do not have our daily, usual phone date any more…it was already hard going from seven days a week, breakfast and evening communication in person, drinking english tea and eating toast in the mornings and crawling into each other’s bed at night to fill each other in on the day’s happenings to only talking on the phone every day (once she moved out and got married, all that jazz)…

so delightful to have an hour with her on the phone during her lunch break today.

someone who knows the good, the bad, the ugly of christy; someone who always tells me like it is, even when i wish she wouldn’t, someone who…faithfully loves me, and who doesn’t mind my craziness, and in fact, encourages it.  ;)  someone with whom i can go out in public and absolutely not care whatsoever about what others think because we’re having such a great time (i think no one quite does fun like we do ;)…like the time she grabbed my butt and i almost squealed in surprise (or the time i did the same and almost made her fall down two flights of icy stairs, whoops, and she did yelp, haha), or the time she stole my shoe when we were at a bachelorette dinner, a very supposedly refined dinner at a italian restaurant and we kept making each other crack up with laughter…and then…my shoe was missing…and it ended up in my purse…or the time she put a skunk in my bed and i screamed bloody murder and woke our neighbors up…or the many times we did many inappropriate things that i cannot speak of here ;)…all the gatherings and dinner parties we threw together, the trips upnorth to the lake, the many group trips we took elsewhere, the long walks, the long talks, holding each other through the tears and pain of life, celebrating through all the joys and happiness…knowing how to read other and knowing how to fight with each other…always choosing to love and forgive and seek to understand the other, thus becoming even closer…being able to do whatever…singing crazily in the car running errands…loving to do nothing more than be quiet and just enjoy each other’s presence…helping proof each others’ papers when we were in college…keeping each other accountable, helping each other grow, learning what it means to live sacrificially with each other…how to serve one another, how to think of another person before our own needs…becoming adults together.

seasons come and seasons go, but a friendship forged through life like that…remains forever.

thankfully, her husband who is also one of my best friends, understands our bond and has kept my place in her life; i’ve not had other husbands be so understanding of the female need for female friends ;), and for that, i’m beyond thankful and blessed.  =)