People I've Had The Pleasure Of Calling My Best Friend

I'm the kind of person who believes you can have as many best friends as you want. Which is a really convenient thing because I have a lot of wonderful people in my life and I am highly indecisive. So here they are, in no particular order:

Shauna: My best friend from grade school, she got me through a lot. Although we didn't stay as close through high school Shauna was always there for me when I needed her most, at some of the hardest points in my life she would show up with a smile, a hug, her Washington DC sweatshirt, a sleepover, and a prayer, and it felt like nothing had ever changed. She always told me she was praying for me through my trials. That meant a lot to me.

Emily: Emily. My best friend through high school, and beyond. Funny thing, she hated me in Middle school- and even the first part of high school, I think she found me annoying, but she eventually came around and saw past my annoying quirks. We are complete opposites, and by that I truly mean COMPLETE opposites, which is funny. We made it through Steens, and Biology together (amongst other things). I loved having classes with her, we spent a lot of valuable class time passing notes and whispering secrets. Some of my favorite memories are our "scary" movie nights, in which we would watch silly disney movies from the 70's that were meant to be, but really weren't scary at all. Every once in a while we would throw in real scary movies (Signs, the Sixth Sense...low impact ones) and she'd tell me when to close my eyes. The best (and worst) thing about her is that she is really honest, which is what I really need most of the time.



Minhee: Sometimes I just decide to be best friends with someone, and it works out. Really, that's what happened. Minhee and I were roommates this year, we didn't know each other before. Before we got to school we emailed and decided to be best friends, and we were. Minnie knows pretty much everything about me, whether I wanted her to or not, that's kind of what happens when you live with someone in such close quarters (I believe my sleep talking also contributed a lot to that). We, too, are very opposite (she actually reminds me a lot of Emily- personality wise) but we get along extremely well. Going to college was one of the hardest transitions I have ever experienced, and I would not have made it out alive without Minnie. She's just...she's pretty much my sister.

Nik: Nik and I also became friends pretty fast. I believe he was the one with whom I coined the phrase BFFFFFFFFFFFF (best friend forever forever forever forever forever forever forever forever forever forever forever). Most people would not think we would have ever been such good friends, but here we are. He also once told me that my haircut made me look like a soccer mom, so yeah, true friend right there.





My little brother Matt: He could be considered my best friend (but I'd never tell him).

Cassie: Smashy Cassie is my cousin, so we have to be friends, but we'd be friends anyways (because I have a rhyming name too, Sista Trista, obviously we must be best friends, the universe demands it). I loved living within 15 minutes walking distance of her this year, now I know what I've been missing out on my whole life. Cassie is just about the most fun person around, and she makes the best margarine popcorn. Haha. No, really she makes fantastically tasty popcorn, and she's always up for an impromptu sleepover.



Alexis: Alexis and I met at Girl's Camp. I don't really know how it happened but we became insta-friends. I believe it had something to do with a dark night, a walk through the woods, a porta-potty, and a scary noise. Anyways it bonded us for life. Alexis understands me, and if she doesn't she does a really good job of pretending. I don't have to spend very much time explaining things to her, like why I feel a certain way, or why I did or said a certain thing. She just gets it. Now she lives far away, and we only overlap about 3-4 weeks in Oregon per year. I miss her. The universe is cruel. Thank goodness for skype.

Madi: I adore Madison. We have been in the same Sunday school class for years, and spent many summers having adventures together at EFY and Girl's Camp. My favorite thing is that Madi and I can just sit together, not say anything, and just be happy to be with each other. I also love to laugh with her, we can just laugh and laugh and laugh. I missed her a lot at college this year, and I wish she was going to the same school as me, but I understand that her life has a different course than mine. She is the sweetest person you will ever meet (but she also has a sneaky side and likes to start food fights) I have often also been jealous of how incredibly beautiful she is! I'm so lucky to have her as a friend.

Morgan: Anyone else noticed a lot of my best friends' names have started with M? Morgan also disliked me in the beginning, which you would never ever be able to tell now. She is the reason I survived most of high school. Morgan is the kind of friend you can call in the middle of the night, when you're crying and having a breakdown, and she will rush over to be with you. She is also the kind of friend who will skip class with you because you're crying uncontrollably and could not entertain the idea of going to band and being expected to play a trumpet in that state. She is highly perceptive and can ALWAYS tell when something's wrong (which can seem annoying at the time, but is actually a REALLY good thing). We laugh a lot about things that don't make sense to other people, or even to us, and we stay up till 3 in the morning, or until we are in tears laughing because we're so delirious and hyped up on sugar, whichever comes first.

My Mom: My mom and I are THE SAME PERSON. Not even kidding, it's kind of creepy. We look the same, talk the same, think the same. This goes way beyond people mistaking one of us for the other on the phone. Once I was walking next to someone talking to her on the phone and I was able to say exactly what she was going to say before she said it, not because I know her so well, but because that's what I would say, therefore that's what she would say. Like I said, freaky. But there's no one else I would rather be an exact replica of.

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I took this quote from a friend's blog.
I never watched Everwood, but this makes me want to:


"The more things change, the more they stay the same, I'm not sure who was the first person was who said that, probably Shakespeare or maybe Sting, but at the moment that sentence that best explains my tragic flaw my inability to change. I don't think I'm wrong in this, the more I get to know other people, the more I realize it's kind of everyone's flaw. Staying exactly the same for as long as possible standing perfectly still, it feels better somehow, and if you are suffering, at least the pain is familiar, because if you took that leap of faith, went outside the box, did something unexpected, who knows what other pain might be waiting out there, chances are could be even worse. So you maintain the status quo, choose the road already traveled, and it doesn't seem that bad, not as far as flaws go, you're not a drug addict, not killing anyone, except maybe yourself, a little. When we finally do change, I don't think it happens like an earthquake, or an explosion, or all of a sudden you're like this different person. I think it's smaller than that, the kind of thing most people wouldn't even notice unless they look really really close. Which thank God they never do, but you notice it, inside you that change feels like a world of difference and you hope that it is, and that this is a person that you get to be forever, that you'll never have to change again."         - Everwood


Also my mom and I were on Netflix today and found a new show to obsess over. It's a really weird and gruesome mystery murder, blood-and-guts type, mini-series, but we can't stop watching it. At the end of one of the episodes the main girl is about to leave her home town again without saying goodbye (she had been gone for 7 years) and she turns and runs back to her high school sweetheart, and she asks him if he ever wondered what would have happened if she never left. And she's about to kiss him, and he steps back and says he's covered in fish guts (he's a fisherman, but trust me, he's soooo cute) and she doesn't care, and she kisses him anyways. And this song is playing. It's Death Cab For Cutie, which I knew right away, because I love them to pieces.

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seriously?

The other day I was in the store with my mom. She ran into a lady she knew and was talking to her. A ways into the conversation the lady said something to the effect of "oh, but you're not even in high school yet are you?" to which I replied, "actually I'm OUT of high school."

YES THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED TO ME. 


and YES THIS HAPPENS TO ME PRETTY MUCH EVERY TIME I MEET SOMEONE NEW. 


oh, and yes, it is quite bothersome. (if you couldn't tell)

I blame the media. I mean, yes, I do agree that I look young for my age, BUT the media makes kids out to look so much older than they should. I mean, watch any movie about high school. Do you know how old those actors really are? Yeah, they're like 25- that is not what a normal 17 year old looks like. So please, stop asking me if I'm 14. And please believe me when I tell you I'm not.