i'll start with my husband, justin (jay). he's not my only best friend, but he's certainly worth mentioning first. i am aware that "my husband is my best friend" sounds a bit cliché, but just like all of my closest friends, we've been through so much and, not only are we still married, we're still friends! that makes him tops in my book. here's the scoop (it's not much, but it's history)... we went to high school together, but never met. i'd heard about him through my friend jennifer v (at work), and met him through my friend jason g (a couple of weeks after graduation). i went to wisconsin for a couple of weeks... upon my return, i had a little 4th of july get-together to which he was invited. after the 4th of july shindig, he kept calling and inviting me (and my friend kim that was visiting from wisconsin) to "hang out" with him... friends' functions, movies, whatever. i thought he was just being nice, but after kim went back to wisconsin, he kept it up. a few months later i started classes at tjc... went to lunch with jason g (the one who introduced us) and some other friends. jason g asked me how long justin and i had been dating... ?! we're dating?! apparently, our first date was july 19th (1997)!
life-long friends, bethany (beth) and cassie (cass). met them when i was 13 years old at the bus stop on the first day of 8th grade in arlington tx. i must admit that i was the biggest dork on the bus. (having just moved from wisconsin, my then fashionable clothes were a little outdated... no offense to my wisconsin peeps!) i moved around alot in wisconsin, but making friends was always pretty easy up there. i was worried that things wouldn't be so easy in tx, but they talked to me anyway as if it didn't matter that i looked different, dressed different, talked different... everyone was so accepting there! i grew on beth and cass... and i think they even started to like me! ;) we stayed friends, lost touch for a few years, got back in touch in our early 20s, and have stayed in touch ever since. beth has one little girl, emm, who is absolutely beautiful. beth lives in austin tx with her forever boyfriend daniel, roommate tim, and tim's dog ketra (that i just LOVE). cass is married to her on-again/off-again high school sweet heart, brian. they live in arlington tx in the house cass grew up in. i love being in her house... while she's changed the decor, it's like a piece of childhood that never changed. they have two gorgeous kids, daughter adrienne (looks just like cass), and son ethan (looks just like brian). we try to get together as often as we can... which ends up being once every year or two or three... but everytime we get together it's as if no time has passed at all.
mary... i'm pretty sure she was my best friend all through high school and still is. our "mrs robinson" is married to a younger guy that we knew in high school, named brian. they live in tyler and have 3 wonderfully entertaining kids: alex, bryce, madilynn (madi). my parents moved from arlington to tyler to take care of my grandparents (they didn't want them in a nursing home until it just couldn't be helped anymore). the transition to tyler was rough as i'd hoped arlington would be the last place i'd attend shcool and have to make new friends. nobody talked to me for atleast a couple of weeks. as a high school student who was used to making friends easily, that was brutal. i was actually told not to ask anyone with a letter jacket for directions as there's no telling where they'd send me as a prank. nice. i think mary (and missy) were the first people to actually say something (nice) to me. then we realized we live only 5-10 minutes away from each other. and so began that friendship. a side note here: it's not fair to dis everyone in tyler. i made some wonderful friends later in high school, that i'm still in touch with to date (and some of yall are reading this right now!). i should also mention that part of my anti-social high school life was my fault. after some time without much friendly contact, i retreated inside my shell... considered tyler a lost cause, swore when i graduated i was moving back to arlington, piss on everyone in that small, closed-minded town. so, yeah. i had to come out of that shell again, realize that i was the one being closed-minded, and start mingling.
monique (mo). lives in north carolina. she is not married. hell i don't even think she has a cat. she's the youngest of 4 kids, and her dad works on dead people. i've known her since 5th grade (wisconsin). we can talk about anything, when we get the chance. we don't get to talk as much as we'd like as she's a very busy woman. she wants to be a teacher and is working so very hard to get there. i don't think she has any idea how truly proud i am of her.
shawn. ::sigh:: complete ass. but he's always there for his friends. no matter what, where, when, or why. brutally honest... even when he shouldn't be. he was living in san marcos, but recently moved to houston! 
and jamie. the newest of my most trusted friends. jamie lives in alvin tx in the middle of nowhere (about 5-10 minutes away from me, depending on how fast i drive down the gravel road) with her husband (jerry) and two cats (sunshine and freckles). her parents are her neighbors, and keep life interesting. jamie and i met via our husbands that attended aviation school together. jamie and jerry have no kids yet either... and since all of our friends already have kids, we've decided we'd like to have kids around the same time so we're not going through it alone (obviously we won't be going through it "alone" as we'll have our husbands... oh who the hell am i kidding...)! if you only knew the conversations we've had on this topic...note: you can find all of these people (except monique) in my friend space here... http://myspace.com/sondragerman
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