Ya Gotta Get With My Friends

I had such a beautiful afternoon with my friends today.

Hanging out on the playground together – and of course, just being at Lynn’s house – brought back a lot of lovely memories. We’ve all been friends for so long – and plenty of others belong in this group but weren’t able to be there today. So many unique relationships and histories. In this photo, the person I’ve known the longest is Tylor (~26 years) and the person I’ve known the shortest is Arika (still a really damn solid ~12 years!). And I feel beyond lucky that my husband is as much a part of this group as anyone else.

I’m just a total sap when it comes to my friends and this is the stuff I anguish over missing if we were to move away. On the plus side – I got a lovely little letter in the mail a few days ago from Michelle, so perhaps that is evidence that the art of keeping in touch via handwritten letters could be kept alive if I did move. You’d write me, wouldn’t you?

Needy AF in addition to being a sap. Super attractive qualities!!

Things that have been keeping me from getting too depressed lately, despite circumstances remaining depressingly the same:

• my longer more leisurely walks
• the Good Christian Fun and Dear Prudence podcasts
• grown-ish on Hulu, because I’m bizarrely fascinated by it even though it’s really weird and not at all subtle; the Youths are sort of a car crash I can’t look away from
• thinking about going to India in July
• thinking about how much fun Paris was
• weekly wifey dinners (or semi-weekly…we do our best)

I should take a day to force myself to do nothing but write and like, go for a walk. But because writers are ace procrastinators (and I like to call myself a Writer now), I’d end up spring cleaning the shit out of this house instead . So win/win, maybe.