Post Number 199!

There are “friends” who destroy each other,
but a real friend sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 8:24

Today I am in Los Angeles, humming in my heart all the songs from Wicked, the musical I went to see with my dear and wonderful friend, Tara, for her birthday. It was faaaaaaaaaaaantastic! The show was everything I hoped it would be, and EVEN MORE... which is pretty amazing since I had huge expectations. Visiting with Tari was tremendous, too. We've been friends for, what? 15 years? We met as preschool teachers- both fairly newly married, with no children. What a life has passed since then! We're VERY much alike, so you can imagine what time we stopped talking this morning and went to sleep. It could have been 3:30 am- but I'm not even certain it was that early. Poor dolly, I hear her downstairs right now getting ready to go to work. Which is so awful, cause I am all cozied up here and not even feeling all that guilty about it. She is such a strong, beautiful, special, talented lady- it's so cool to be allowed know her, and love her, and sleep in her delicious bed while she bunks up with her kids. That's love, people!

I have big plans for this incredible day!

1. Blog a bit then go back to sleep in Tara's yummy vanilla-scented bed. mmmmmm.
2. Go for a walk in her adorable little town- All.by.my.self!
3. Meet T for coffee at her fancy law office.
4. Zip a couple of miles down the road to meet MAMA P. for lunch!
5. Chat for a thousand hours, laughing until one of us says, "stop! I'm gonna Pee!"
   
6. Drive home, all refreshed
7. Go back to my life where I get to be considerably less all.by.my.self but, because I have had a nice break, be grateful for my wonderful, amazing life.
   

Okay, my next post will be my 200th. To celebrate, let's play Truth or Dare. Without the dare part because I'm not a daring girl. So it's really Truth or Silence. haha. Ya'll ask the questions- silly or serious, and I'll try to answer with the most amount of truth allowable by law, God, and common sense. No holds barred... ask about my life, my past, present, future... something I've never explained, or explained well... something you always wondered about me, my blog, my family, my relationship with God... Whatever flips your cookie...

Go ahead: fire away!
(by the way, you should probably know that if nobody asks any questions, I will feel like the girl who didn't get asked to the prom (hello! 1989!) and I will fall into the depths of despair... probably never to blog again. It's on you.)