Why is it only Thursday?

I am really REALLY looking forward to this weekend. I will be out of town for a friend's wedding. One of my best girl friends, B, from college is getting married. We met through her sister, C, who was a year ahead of me. I was a sophomore in college and B was a senior in high school. Little did I know that on that day in Spring of 1999 I was meeting a high schooler who was going to become one of my best friends, and more importantly, one of my best drinking buddies in college. Here are a few reasons why she is awesome:

- She was there for me whenever I needed a beer after a long day of classes. OK, sometimes she was there before me.
- She always listened when I needed someone to talk to about whatever it was that was distressing me. Even when it was stupid, and most of the time, it was.
- She was there when I wanted to go and shoot hoops at midnight. Then she went with me to Steak 'n Shake to make up for any calories we lost playing basketball.
- She stayed up with me all night watching soccer games she didn't even care for when the World Cup was in Japan that one summer. She didn't even mind when I poked her to wake her up so she can see a replay of a play she didn't care for.
- She let me give her a hair cut (though now she'd be the first one to tell you not to let me near you with a scissors).
- She was there when that one boy made me cry, and she took me to her dorm room so I would stay there for the night, just so I wouldn't cry alone. She even stayed up to hand me tissues.
- She was the best football/basketball/baseball game goer buddy. The many MANY seasons tickets we bought together were our beer money sacrifice.
- She played catch with me, even during finals.
- She went to lame parties with me when I didn't want to go alone. She even played along when I made up party names for us. Though sometimes she forgot and would suddenly start saying my real name and not get it when I give her a "damn you woman!" look.
- Despite our vast religious and political differences, we accepted each other and neither of us ever tried to change the other.
- The inside jokes, are endless, and I can't divulge them, otherwise, they'd be outside jokes. But they're funny, you just have to trust me on this one.

As a super bonus, I will meet up with my best friend, MP, and her husband to go to the wedding together. These two, B and MP, are the best part of my college life, and I would do anything for them. This weekend is all about the two people that made college the fun time it was. To this day, I can't imagine where I would be without them. Despite living far apart, and having very different schedules that may not allow us to always keep in touch, we still manage to know what's going on in the other's life. When good or bad things happen, they're usually the first to hear about it, and vice versa.

This weekend could have not come at a better time. I need to be around the people who understand me and know me most, and no matter what happens, they would never dismiss me or have to reconsider how I fit into their life plans, because I'm part of it. I need to get away, and there is no better place to go to than to be around these two. People usually consider themselves lucky if they have one friend they can absolutely trust and around whom they can be completely themselves. I must've done something right along the way, because I have two of those! I need this to remind me that what really matters is the good things in life, instead of letting the bad things bring me down.

I also can use a day away from work. It's going to be nice not being around a computer for a day. Woohoo!