last friday i had dinner with an old classmate. i met sandy when we were in 6th and 7th grade at taylor middle school but we weren't the greatest friends. she wasn't really a part of any group of kids but hung out with a lot of different groups, sometimes with me and my buddies back then. she left taylor, after 8th grade and moved out to vegas with her sister and mom. since then we've kept in touch through letters, emails, and phone calls every so often.
sandy is a super talented woman. when she was about 13 years old, she and her sister were on star search and they actually won the whole thing. she sings, she dances, she's gorgeous...now she lives in la and is a lakers girl.
sandy was in the city dancing for a macy's benefit last week and we planned to get together before she left. i hadn't seen sandy in YEARS, so i was stoked that she called me when she arrived and had time to get together.
while i'm telling parkin about sandy, i wonder why and how we were able to keep in touch all these years. i mean, like i said earlier, we weren't the greatest of friends in middle school. she was popular, pretty, talented, and nice and i wasn't any of those things, but our friendship was able to continue even after she moved away. throughout the years, she and i exchanged letters and christmas cards, then when she moved out of vegas to oregon for college, we still continued to send postcards and letters, which wasn't all the time, but it was frequent enough that we didn't forget about one another.
anyhow, as i think about our friendship, i wonder why she's friends with me. haha, not that i don't appreciate how strong our friendship is after all these years, but when i saw her on friday, we just caught up with everything and she seems sooooo cool! how is it that this super cool girl is friends with such an ordinary person like me? she seems to live such an exciting life, knowing atheletes, dating some, hehe, signing her own pictures for fans, and performing for hundreds of people. she's the closest thing i know to a celebrity! and i'm an accountant. it's like, she likes me, she really likes me! hehe, maybe not after she reads this, haha.
the coolest thing that happened on friday night was that she busted out a pen that i gave her in the 7th grade. i was shocked. i guess i gave her a set of sanrio kerrokerroppi pens for christmas or her birfday or something. so anyways, we were talking about taylor days, and she goes, "you know i still have those pens you gave me?'" (i didn't even remember ever giving her pens) then she told me that she still had them, and she busted one of them out of her purse! i was dying with laughter that she still had the pen. then she said, "the only reason i still have it is cuz it still has ink" hahaha. pretty amazing tho, that sanrio pens last that long... it's been at least 10 years. most impressive.
so here's a picture of me and sandy. the rude waitress that was helping us was incompetent and couldn't photograph us, so i held the camera as far as i could and snapped the shot. why my head looks so big next to hers is beyond me.
grrr... my diskette is failing to work once again. and i can't find the site i used before to get the driver. hmm... i wonder what's going on with my computer... or is it the diskette?
picture to come soon.
i have to thank sonny once again for helping me add a tracker to my site. it's interesting to see that i have readers that come to my site to read my rants and raves about things. i know i bitch a lot about a lot of things, that i'm negative at times, and overly sensitive, also that i'm stupid at times... wait, why do people come back? hehee. the tracker puts a smile on my face because, well, i'm the center of attention for at least one minute of someone's day. me me me me me me me.
i was looking over the hits on my site and saw that i had hits from the netherlands, sweden, and thailand... it makes me wonder... do i write with an accent? i'm an idiot. i know. unfortunately these ppl haven't been back to the site since that one time. *darn* couldn't keep em.
i was perturbed by a chat i had with my cousin the other day. about a month or so ago, i asked my bridesmaids if they were available to go gown shopping with me this weekend. my maid of honor wanted to plan the day for us. i thought that was really sweet and accepted her offer. unfortunately she's been really busy at work, travelling, just trying to juggle a lot on her plate. a little too much i think. i offered to just plan the day myself since i had the time, but she refused and said that she could do it. i learned that she hadn't had time to really make any appointments yet tho, so i took the liberty to do so because i knew that certain boutiques were filling up with appointments and i didn't want to wait to long. she just sounded too busy with other things, and i didn't mind, but i knew that i needed to make the appointments asap.
i went through my bridal magazines and make a list of shops around the bay area. i called a few and they were already booked up for saturday, but i was able to put my name on a waitlist and made a couple of other appointments. i was able to plan the morning and afternoon for saturday in the morning at work yesterday and told her not to worry about it. i received an almost harsh reply chat from her tho, saying that well, she was busy training a new worker. i had understood that, that's why i had just decided to just go ahead and plan it. but from her response, i felt bad because i felt like i had stepped on her toes or crossed over her line.
i just don't understand why she insisted on planning the day tho, when it was obvious to me that she didn't have time to. and when i offered to help, she refused it. why was she being so adament about planning the day without my help? but then if she was so insisty on it, why didn't she call to make appointments earlier when we decided to go, why so procrastinaty? i think that she's already been so helpful. i wanted to help and not just sit on my lazy ass here at work... just her offer to do so was heartfelt. don't get me wrong, i love that her intentions were so generous. i'm just a bit confused that's all. she's had so many obligations at work and from her family, i was just trying to help but maybe i added to her stress. *sorry d*