It's A Small World After All (I hope you don't have the song stuck in your head all day!)

After about 16 years, I have recently reconnected with my roommate from my freshman year of college, Sara. (Shout out to Classmates.com). We went to college in Misery (aka Missouri for those of you who haven't lived there), and it just so happens that we are now both living in Colorado with our respective families! She has been here 7 years, and I just moved here in the 7th month of the 7th year of the millennium (I guess numerology is in the air today). It made some sense for her to go to college in Misery as she was born and raised there. On the other hand, I had lived in many other states but never Missouri and graduated H.S. in Louisiana. However, I really did enjoy my college days and the friends I made there. It just happened to be a pretty small college and just reminded me too much of H.S.

Anyway, it's ironic that we are both living here as neither one of us has ever lived in Colorado before (hence it truly is a Small World). Luckily, her workplace is only about 10 minutes from my house, so we met up last week for lunch. It was like we had just seen each other yesterday except now instead of being 19 and carefree, we are in our mid-thirties, mothers, and wives with all of the responsibility that goes with our current stage in life. No complaints because life for me is much better now than then, but seeing her brings back many memories of college days and our youth...many good and some not so good.

So now we are making plans to go Christmas shopping this weekend, get our families together after Thanksgiving, and hopefully make a standing lunch date once a week.

I'm just one of those girls who now truly appreciates her girlfriends, and I hope I show it. I'm terrible with writing letters and sending birthday cards, but I love talking on the phone. This is no surprise to my friends & family, and definitely not to my parents who paid all those long distance bills during my teenage years; however, they did not really complain since I moved quite a bit in high school.

There was a time in my life that my world revolved around the boys I was dating. Thank goodness I have wonderful girlfriends that I've been friends with for years (a few since childhood, Jr. High, H.S. or college) that overlooked my self-centeredness. Cheers to all who stood by me all these years. I love ya!

So I'm so happy to have Sara back in my life and even happier that we live close enough to see each other more often. I wish I could see all of my friends more. However, it's a little more difficult since we are spread all over the U.S. I miss you all!