Old Friends.....

Ok, 1st things 1st.  Update on cleansing as it were.  Yeah, that's right "as it were."  Past-tense if I remember my english grammar correctly from grade school,

tho I may be a little rusty, so no nuts from the peanut gallery....*ahem*  Tasha...yes, you.  Wordsmith to the stars that you are.

 

I stayed on the cleanse for a total of 3 days...I know OMG!  Tell ya what?  Having a headache for 2.5 of those days and having my muscles cramp at nite, were definitely not good signs of something that would work for a wk or 3 wks for that matter.  Ahhh, well such is life.  

Had my full caffeinated java cleanse this morn and all is now right in my little corner of the world.

Onward here, speaking of grade school....FaceBook presented me with a nice little suprise of a "friend request" today.  My BFF from grade school and all through my school yrs for that matter found me (who I have been trying to find on/off on google for a bit now). 
Let me tell ya, FB   

 has proven itself today.  I do like the social networking site, not only can I stay in touch with friends that I no longer work directly with, old school friends (a few +or-), friends I do work with, and new friends that have become rather important to me, etc.  It has allowed me to give and gain decent info whether job related, topic related, and I can become community involved at any given time if I desire to do so.  FB does have it's downside too, but then again, there is such a thing as not checking in or just shutting down the puter for the day, etc.

Anyhoooo, my school BF and I grew up together more or less. We went thru 1st crushes, boy angst and just plain old growing pains together.  After graduation, or maybe it was our Senior year that we ended up like a lot of friends do, sorta doing our own things and beginning to drift apart.  Our graduation was great, we both couldn't wait to say good-bye to HS and get on with whatever the rest of our lives had to hold for us.  I was dating at the time and opted to go to dinner out with my main squeeze.  Her family was having a grad party for her, and she had invited me.  Ya know, in hindsight I really wish I had gone to the party and we would've celebrated our feat together, but life has it's own way at times.  We saw each other on/off after that, but very limited.  I was dating someone new, she was dating (who I would come to know later as her husband, sorta), she was in school and I was working FT, kind of in search of "whatever" as teens tend to do after HS.

She came into my establishment (at that time I was waiting tables at nite) with her group of friends, and I was introduced for the 1st time to her future husband.  Personally, I thought we were both a little young.  Like what maybe 19 or 20 at that time?  Too young IMO to be hitching up with someone perm.  We got together a couple of times after that, talked and what not, but it was like our true connection that we shared for yrs had some corrosion going on, and we weren't ready to have the bristle brush-baking soda workup done.  Long story short, she ended up getting married in a park with her close friends.  Her parents weren't there because they didn't approve and I still feel sad for that fact.  I was a guest, which at the time was fine, but yrs later I thought how nice it would've been to be more involved with her planning and just girl stuff all around.  She moved away after getting hitched, somewhere in the midwest.  Waaay foreign for this Ca girl and p'bly her too since she hung out on the west coast with me.

What do I hope for, you may ask?  Not a whole lot.  If anything, growing up, having kids and just dealing with life has made me realistic, maybe too much at times.  Tho, it would be nice if we could resurrect a little of the magic

we had as friends for all of those yrs.  What will be will be.  I am glad that she is back in my universe at least.  I know, she is well enuf to type/check-in on FB periodically, and hopefully she is thriving and very happy.  That's all I can hope for with any of my friends.