wednesday, april 14, 2010

like it was yesterday....

tomorrow, my friend annie is going to be 40 years old. annie was one of my best friends in elementary school and all through high school, and though we aren't in touch as much lately, she is just one of those friends that will always be special to me. but, how did our friendship begin? i remember it like it was yesterday...let's all flashback to 1978......

annie was having a birthday party, i seem to recall that she was new to yavneh and somehow i bullied my way into being invited to the party. (me- a bully? can you imagine?) annie was different from the other kids in that her mom dressed her head to toe in ralph lauren and sent her to school with healthy snacks like corn nuts and sea weed crackers (that i am sure i would steal/borrow from her lunch box) anyway i remember being so excited that i got invited to annie's party because she lived in kinnelon near the WOODS! we all thought that was really glamorous. annie's dad told us to go to sleep early because he wanted us up early to take us on a hike. and wake up early we did-annie's parents were not to happy about that, and i still remember my friend beth saying that she was going to keep her socks on when she went back to sleep. how do i remember that? is was 32 years ago.....but some things from your childhood you never forget. like when annie would flip her long blonde hair over her face, put on her glasses and say she was cousin it from the adams family(which is now on broadway-of course it is, it was popular when i was younger and now it has come back to haunt us again....) like at my 13 year old birthday sleepover when annie and our friend vicki decided they were going to sleep in the bath tub...like the year we were in 6th grade at yavneh and mr hooper from sesame street died, along with brezhnev(how do you spell that name? russsian president-anyone?)and we made a memorial by one of the trees in the playground....our first day of 7th grade when all of the girls decided to wear bras for the first time....except for one, who told us she wasn't wearing one, but really was underneath a camisole(men-you will have to ask your significant others what a camisole is....)like it was yesterday.

and now, back in the present, i am just months away from my son graduating elementary school....i just graduated elementary school!! ok, this is getting a little depressing-i never know where my random thoughts will take me...so they are now taking me here-annie, if you are reading this, i wish you a very very happy birthday. you still look exactly as you did the day we met (blonde hair and all.....) and i am still 4 times your size, and that is ok...nothing like having a best friend that you can put in your pocket....

happy wednesday