- February 20, 2009
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Old College Pals – My Rachel
Friends. This is my friend Rachel. We met in college back in the ’91. Probably some of you weren’t even born then *wrinkles forming*… I digress. Rachel and I haven’t seen each other in… Oh… We have no idea how long it has been… Say, 6 to 8 years, give or take 
Too. Darn. Long.
Golly heck! We still look young enough to be in college! (Shhhh! Please do not pop my illusion of youthfulness, not today…). Rachel flew into town yestrday for a conference. She asked if I could come to the big city and play. I was all, “Duh!” And she was all, “Wooooo! Gigglegiggle!” And I was all, “Squeeee!!! My Rachel!!!.”
So I took the ferry and headed to the city. We went to dinner and talked. Imagine the amount of words exchanged. EPIC.
After dinner we walked a little. Talking the whole time. So focused on talking that we kind-of walked around a block or two not having a clue where we were headed… so engrossed in words and news and heart-stuff. We went into H & M and though I found some very cute items, I just was so distracted by my friend and all the talking that needed to be done I couldn’t really swoon over the clothes like I generally love to do.
Then we went for dessert. I had a slice of chocolate mousse cheesecake (chocolate mousse anything could be my mistress, BTW)… she had some anniversary cheesecake-thingy. We both took off the whipped cream though, we are trying to watch out girlish figures, afterall. You know what else we did??? We talked more and more and more. Staying in that “epic” level of word exchange. The giggles, the oohs, that knowing grasp of hands, our bellies distended in pure chocolate cheesecake euphoria. Ya know, if ever there was goodness, last night was all goodness.
Before we knew it, it was 11:15 on a Thursday night and we had to head back to the hotel. Ya know… so we could talk some more. Not sure what happened but the GPS went all wonky on my iPhone, and what should have been a 17 minute drive turned into an hour of weaving and wandering and on several occasions Rachel saved our lives. You see, I am directionally challenged and when confusion sets in, it seems I cannot discern the red of a traffic light. Apparently my directional chellengiosity manifests itself in such a way that I see no traffic signal at all! It doesn’t help when I am driving and keeled over in laughter, either…
Thank you, Rach for being on the ball, as usual. And thank you cops for not being out last night to give me a ticket tickets. And for the record, no drinking was involved, so all that weaving and driving over curbs (perhaps I embellish a little) was merely the result of utter exhaustion and the effects that so much laughing has on an exhausted brain.
We did make it safely back to the hotel… where we washed our sweet little faces, giggled and climbed into our warm beds… and talked some more. Life, love, joy, pain, memory upon memory…
You see, Rachel is one of those friends where we could go forever without any contact, but once we finally get to talk it is as if no time passed at all. She is one of those trusted friends who listens, loves, encourages, understands. She’ll tell ya the truth. She’ll bring the deepest laugh to your heart.
Rach… Lacher… Loved. Seeing. You. Giggling and talking and listening and catching-up and giggling and even holding hands like little girls as we walked through town. You. Golden.
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I’m curious, my friends… do you have a someone(s) like that in your life?
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Oh my gosh, she looks fantastic! So glad you guys had a wonderful catch-up.
That’s so cool that you have a friend like that and that you had such fun together.
That was a beautiful post. My only hope is that someone somewhere thinks all of those great things about me. Definitely something to aspire to be. To mean that much to a friend. Ah.
Sounds like you guys had a great time!
Yup, I know exactly what that’s like! I have a friend like that, too, Heather, also from college, also from around that time (sheesh, ya think we went to the same place at the same time, or sumthin?), and being on opposite sides of the globe isn’t really conducive to frequent visits or phone calls, there being a 9-hour time difference, and all, but: when we talk it’s like all those months in between never were there, except to be filled with tons of stuff to talk about – epic is the perfect word!
I have a couple friends like that. I also have my friend Ms. Jodycakes who writes on our blog. We were thick as thieves when she lived here and I miss her like crazy. We haven’t gotten to spend too much time since she moved … but OMG I know we’ll sit up late and talk and DRINK into the wee hours next time we do. It’s just what we do well together.
So glad you had fun girl!!
Sigh. This post brought a tear to my eye. I USED to have such a friend, but when she got married, she moved to Texas and we lost touch. As in, she stopped answering my e-mails because she was too busy. Sad. But I’m happy for you. A friendship like this is rare and to be treasured.
I love this post and in fact I did just that last week had lunch with 2 girls I had not seen in years that i went to school with and it was like no time had passed and I am doing the same next weekend with another girlfriend. Thanks to FB I am reconnecting with many old dear and special friends….