How our Thursday nights started is pretty simple,
football. The NFL network is not offered as part of my cable service (ugh), and
I need to watch football. Now while my Browns rarely ever have a night game, I
still need football. My BFF suggested coming over and watching with her husband
— and so it began. After the football season was over, we still stuck with our
Thursday nights. And then I discovered Project Runway.
I had never watched the show before and somehow
stumbled on a re-airing of one season’s premiere, and I was hooked! I texted my
BFF about my television show discovery and not only did she watch it, but it
was on Thursday nights. It was perfect! We have been Project Runway obsessed
ever since. It is to the point that when the designer I loved won the season,
we cheered like we actually knew him. We also cheer when the people we don’t care
for are eliminated like this has any effect on our life whatsoever. It is an
escape.
At this point in my life, I would be lost without my
best friend. I would be lost without the daily texts. I would be lost without
her support. I would be lost without her kindness. I would be lost without her
family. I would be lost without her friendship. She makes me want to see myself
the way she sees me, and her kids see me. No matter how bad it gets for me, I
know she will never let me drown. Her husband is very aware of the fact that
when he married her, he got me as well. He lets us be best friends.
I am honored to have two best friends, three
including my sister, but only one lives near me. Our friendship still confuses others
since in high school we were nothing alike. We hung in different circles and
she is younger than me. Outside of National Honor Society, we were not a part
of the same clubs or classes. She was way smarter than me. Funny how people
still compare you to who you were in high school. The joys of small towns.
Anyway, we became friends in college, later
roommates, and we are still together. Some people you just click with, and she
was mine. In college we were totally different, but it worked. As much as I
disliked her forcing me to watch hours and hours of Buffy, I endured since it
made her happy. Plus, she was forced to listen to the music I like that she may
have thought sucked. She was wise enough to not tell me such — told you she was
smart.
After school we took completely different paths. She
married the love of her life and now has great children. Well we all know from
this blog experiment that was not me. And you know what? It didn’t change
anything. Of course she has other responsibilities and isn’t always available,
but she never makes me feel like that. She knows when I need her and she is
there, usually with sweet tarts. Never has being a wife and mother been an
excuse for us to grow apart. In fact, she gets angry for me when others use
that as an excuse to me. Our lives are so different but we have Thursday
nights. Every week we both have something to look forward to. During those hard
weeks, we can just count down the days until Thursdays. Laura Bush seems to still have the same group of friends she had when she was younger. She has gained new ones, but those first friends are still in her life. I look to Laura Bush when it comes to my “core” friends. I hope they are always there. Her husband became President of the United States and she still maintained her friendships. They may have not seen each other as much as they liked, but the friendship was still there, still strong. What would Laura Bush do?
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