Skip to main content

The difference in friends

Image
By
 
*gasp*!  Someone else besides Mama is posting!

I wanted to talk a little bit about friends.  This past weekend I had the chance to spend the weekend at a cabin that my rommmate's family owns.  Twelve of us drove down on Friday night, and after a two-hour detour (pretty much a circle :-)), we got to our destination 13 hours after we left Provo.  We spent Saturday and Sunday at the cabin, and then yesterday we drove back 11 hours to Provo.  It was completely and utterly worth it.

Since being in Utah, I can honestly say that I have missed DC.  I have missed school mostly. While I perhaps wasn't as liberal as most of my peers (which is saying something), I LOVED learning and figuring out how things work in the world.  I felt extremely comfortable in classes, and loved my professors.  That hasn't been the case here in Utah. However, that has been balanced out by the friends that I have made.  The 24 hours of driving that we did this weekend?  They went incredibly fast, because of the people we had with us.  I think that I will always remember driving through who-knows-where in northern Arizona at one thirty in the morning with another two hours to go, while cracking up hysterically at the antics of some of my friends or a comment they made.  The weekend was full of quotable comments, everything from funny interchanges between couples to two cents from my roommate Brighton's mom that was hilarious! 

I think perhaps the best feeling for me was that we were all loved.  Everybody has their eccentricities, whether it is being obnoxiously loud to being really, really scared of ghost stories, but it was accepted and you are loved for it.  Here's to friends!

Comments

  1. John KennedyFebruary 21, 2013 at 6:04 PM

    Im glad you had fun cheese! It looks like a great group of friends!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

SURPRISE!!

By
When the pizza guy came to the door last night, here's what John saw: It took a few seconds for John to process who the pizza delivery man was, but when he did, he was incredibly happy (and couldn't stop saying "heeeeyyyyy....".  It was Jared Moran, John's best friend. And me, I just knelt down, right then and there, and began repenting of all the lies that I have told over the last four months, hiding this most amazing surprise :-)  I told Sarah the other day that I was glad to see the light at the end of the falsehood tunnel, because if I kept this up much longer, I was destined to end up in liars' hell... Jared ran the Air Force marathon with John last year.  It was his first marathon, and from what he told us, his last.  However, he called in June and said he was coming again, but I was supposed to keep it a surprise from John.  I'm not sure what changed his mind, but we sure are glad he did.  John hates runnings marathons alone, and ther...
4 comments
Read more

Like Dominos....

By
It all began with glare.  Simple, obnoxious, I-can't-stand-it-anymore glare. Our 60" rear projection TV in the family room was basically unviewable except after 10 o'clock at night.  The glare from the windows was making it impossible to see anything during my 10 minute lunch break each day, and something had to change. Too, the TV didn't fit in the entertainment center from Germany.  John, wanting bigger and better, hadn't considered that the space is only 40" wide.  For the past five years, I have been nagged by 6" of overhang on both sides of the TV stand. I went to Lowe's to price blinds.  $1,043 for five blinds, and that was at 20% off. I figured a new TV would be cheaper than that.  I was right, even with the state-of-the-art receiver and new HDMI cables that sly salesman told us we needed to have. But where to put the old TV?  It just needed a quiet, dark place to retire. Glo's bedroom.  Her TV was a relic from the paleoneoneand...
3 comments
Read more

Getting Hannie Home

By
Knowing that Hannah was leaving on her mission to Ecuador February 7, I needed to get Hannie home.  To her credit, she took care of mostly everything out in Utah, including finding someone to buy her apartment contract.  When I got there, it was all about driving her around so she could take care of last minute things (selling back her books, mailing back a rented book, turning in her work stuff at the library), but really it was about some good old girl time too.  Eating at some of Provo's great eateries and buying cupcakes. Kitty, sampling some of the goods. Ah cupcakes.  Sweet Tooth Fairy bakery has become a tradition every time I visit Utah.  Seriously, they sell the most delicious cupcakes and cookies there.  It made sense to me to buy eight cupcakes for the two of us for a three day drive home.  Little did I know... One of the things that I have done too many times to count now is helping my college-age kids move in and out of their apart...
Post a Comment
Read more