Jenny

I’m getting a visitor! This seems to happen once or twice a year, and it thrills me to no end. I usually feel like I’m the one traveling to see all my friends and decided that I wanted to take a break, and see different places instead.

So when my friend, Jen, asked if she could come for a week I couldn’t stop smiling. She’s my longest lasting friend and I’m almost mystified by our 16 year endurance. We are nothing alike. She likes to shop. I don’t. She likes Dave Matthews Band (still). I don’t. She used to have strings of boyfriends, to the point where I wouldn’t know where one would end and one would begin. I always had one boyfriend for a year or two and then be single for a year or two. Guys would fall to her feet. Guys would laugh at my stupid jokes and even stupider comebacks. She really wants to get married already so she can have kids. I really want to not do anything like that at all. According to her, I’m laid back and “alternative”. According to me, she’s super organized and wears clothes that match and stuff.

But what we do have in common is our past. And sometimes that’s all it takes to keep the mold together.