Friends

I am watching Oprah's premier of her final season and John Travolta is her guest. She stated talking about what a good friend he is and so glad he is with her. They came out dancing together to "Love Train", and I thought, I have friends that make me feel like dancing. Do I make them feel like dancing? I see the love on Oprah and John's faces and I hope I have that effect on my friends.

She said there is no one on earth she would rather be with and 25 years later, he still make her heart pitter patter.

You do not get many friends in life, true friends that you have an unspeakable connection with. Some similarities are evident, but some are not until you dig deep, talk for hours and shop with them!

I have one BFF, and we are an unlikely pair. If you only knew how close we are, it still amazes me. She has been with me through my adoption, helped me with beginner motherhood and is impressed by my computer skills. (they are really not that great...but shhh don't tell her). I love her like a sister and I hope she realizes how important and special she is to me.

I have been blessed to reconnect with 3 friends in my life. These friends and I have drifted apart over our life's journey but have somehow found each other again. Each one brings something different to my life and look forward getting to know them as adults, traveling with them and growing old with them.

I want my friends around me when I turn 40, 50, 60, 70 and at death. I know they are truly accepting of me and my faults. I want their faces to be the last I see because after all of these years, they do not judge, or back down or walk away.

If you have a friend you want to connect with or reconcile. DO IT!

We have opened our hearts to each other, I am a better person.

Leaving the comfort of home

I had to leave NJ today...my home. It is sad. As I drove over the 9th street bridge I began to cry, already homesick. I feel like I belong here. Not just because I love it here but because I can drive over the bridge and know that is where the crash scene was filmed for "Eddy and the Cruisers". My favorite restaurant, The Crab Trap. I know where Tony Marts used to be and that the 60 min wait at Smitty's is worth it. I know 3 different ways to drive yo Philly and how to get from Cape May to Atlantic City without using the parkway. I can drive by my childhood home and my friends old apt, so many great memories (the apt stories are another blog)

I am also leaving behind my oldest friend, my craziest friend, my God daughter and a ton of family. It does not help that Olivia is also crying she wants to stay.

Only 1 other place I have felt lime I belonged, Savannah GA

So for now I will cry, put my "Jersey Girl" sticker on my car and make a 2 year plan.

Well we are on the road. 230pm and only in GA. At this rate I will be driving all night. So the last thing I need is a 6 year old screaming and crying because I turned off the car and it shut off the DVD player. I don't hit my child but came sooo close today. Don't pull a brat move on me in this heat!! I told her if she did nor stop I would throw her DVD out of the window. She said "you won't do that ". She apparently does not know that I don't like being told I "won't" do something. I do it just because.

So after the crying ended, we got back
In the car and began our GA treck up 95. Which state should I leave this mathem and disappear into?

I think I will wait for MD. I am not a southern girl

I only have 4 more working days until vacation and I have already checked out. I am living vicariouly through my relatives on FB that are in OC right now. Planning how many times I can eat Mac n' Manco pizza in 1 week.

However the bizarro world of work always creeps into my mind and stops my day dreaming. A man on twitter has 70,000+ followers. REALLY! Is he a movie star? Journalist? How is he famous? Then after looking at his profile his location says: "# Location Inner Pussy Walls". WOW, now I know. The surprising and even more disturbing thing is, this does not shock or offend me. I guess I am that twisted. I had to run and tell a male co worker what it said. Is this normal, I ask myself. I am sure my BFF will tell me, but I think she is just as twisted as I am.

Oh Steve! You make our lives so difficult.

Can't you just admit to the design flaw and move on to a solution. You took 1.5 hrs today to blow smoke and let people look and listen to you to say nothing we did not already know.
Check your ego at the door. I now understand why women turn to women.

Can I have a pink bumper?

Thanks Steve!!

While I am on hold with dreaded IT, let me start. Bizarre things happen in my life on a weekly basis, most of them I call my BFF about and we laugh it off.

I was in Costco the other day planning to stop at Starbucks after. I checked out and got in line to get a churro to go with my coffee. the guy behind me decided to strike up a conversation.
"Are the hot dogs here good?" I said yes. "Are they juicy? Do you like them a lot?" Really asshole? Do you think I don't know you are making sexual references? Don't be so obvious! Then he looked at my purchase of a Sonic care tooth brush with the receipt sitting on top. "Oh, I did not know they are that expensive, I have a ton of them at home. " Is he trying to tell me he has a lot of money because he has Sonic Care toothbrushes at home. Not working. Then he says "So what do you like on your hot dog?" Ok now he is pissing me off. Are you really trying to have this conversation with me?

I quickly got my churro and ran to my car, to call the BFF. It has got to be the bra!

Ridiculousness

Such is my life. Inspired by Chris F.