I yearn for younger, simpler days sometimes
On of my best friends came back home this weekend, with her son to visit some family. It was looking pretty bleak that we were not going to see each other. Whenever she comes back, her family consumes her like a plague and it’s hard for her to get away. Four of us ended up going to dinner on Sunday night, and I haven’t had that much fun in I don’t know how long.
We ended up going to this bar across the street, to grab one more drink, because we weren’t ready to say goodbye yet. Well it turns out, there was karaoke at this place. There were regulars galore, who were not going to willingly give up the mike to us newbies. A couple hours later we finally got our chance to sing. Gia sang “Jack and Diane” and I sang “I Remember You”, that’s by Skid Row for anyone who is clueless out there. But the highlight, was Melissa and Katie’s duet, “Almost Paradise”, a little off-key, bringing me back to the days of Footloose. (I love Kevin Bacon, by the way.) We videotaped the whole thing, and replayed it only to hear Gia and I laughing so hard you couldn’t hear the performance.
It’s nights like this, that I wish I was 17 and still living at home. Before any of us had real jobs, and were able to hang out at each others house every night of the summer and every weekend night of the school year. Before we got our hearts broken or started breaking hearts. Before we started moving away to college, only for some of us to return for a brief moment in time, only to move away again. Before some of us got married, accidentally got pregnant, and now are all grown up; resulting in seeing each other less times a year than I have fingers on one hand.
Katie, how I wish you lived in Minnesota, or the midwest for that matter. But I know this is the reality of life. In some weird way, you living across the country demonstrates how great of friends we really are. The fact that when we get together we can still have this much fun, makes me one lucky gal, and I have the sore stomache muscles to prove it.
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