My Best Friend Pinki

I've been wanting to do this post for a little while, but after everything that has happened as of late, I feel like it's definitely overdue.

Everyone has a best friend. Some we've had our whole life, some we are related to, some are our spouses, our parents, or someone that we just met, who truly changed our lives. They can be male or female, older or younger than us, different race, religion, or nationality, but we can't help ourselves. There is always that one person that becomes "our person", the person we cry with, call immediately with good or bad news, the person that we call at 3 a.m. and they will always answer.

I've been very fortunate in my life to have many friends, several close friends, and a few best friends. I am still friends with most of them, others have come into and out of my life like the changing of the weather (and in Michigan, that is very often!) and there are those who have drifted off into their own lives as well as me into mine, and we vow that we will talk more, hang out, call, but things always seem to get so busy. But for the last 12 years of my life, for the most part, there has been one constant and that is my wonderful friend Pinki. That of course is not her real name, her real name is Cassie, but that's the name I gave her in high school and that's the name that has stuck! But for the sake of time and this blog, lets just call her C.

C and I met when I first moved to Michigan in 2001. I showed up at cheer leading tryouts and she told me that she liked me pants. And the rest is history. We were inseparable. If you needed to reach me, just call Cassie and visa verse. We spent the night together every weekend, we snuck out together, went to our first party together, BUT we never got in trouble together! ;)

After high school, C and I got into a HUGE argument and we had a falling out. I went on to college and about two months in I received an email from her. We hadn't spoken in 6 months. I still to this day remember what the email said. We were in very different places when we graduated. I was working 80 hours a week at two jobs, I didn't go out, I didn't party, I was more focused on being able to help pay for my school. C was running around with a different crowd who liked to go out, and we just didn't see eye to eye. In this email she apologized for things going bad between us and told me that she realized what I was doing and working towards. She had met a guy (who is now her wonderfully amazing fiancee!) who had to little girls. At 18 she was stepping up to be their mother and to lead by example for them. She didn't go out anymore, she was working two jobs to help her man out with their bills, and I could tell that she had changed.

We still didn't talk very much until I moved back to my parents that summer. We started out slowly, taking our time with this new improved friendship. Meeting for coffee, chatting on the phone, and I could tell right away this was not my party girl friend from high school, and to tell you the truth I was relieved! 6 years later and I'm so glad I got that email!

C is seriously one of the strongest people that I know. She is smart, funny, and has the biggest heart! She has helped me out whenever I need it, she has never hesitated to be there when I needed her, and has taken Cowboy and I into her family with open arms. I love her stepdaughters as much as I would love my own flesh and blood nieces and her future hubby is just as awesome as she is.

We are complete opposites. She's blond, I'm brunette. She has hazel eyes, I have blue. She's a VERY picky eater, I'm Foodbeeb! But there is no one that I get along better with. Some time's we'll just look at each other and say, "How did we become friends?!" She is family, she is my dearest friend, my person, and a huge part of my heart and life.

I wouldn't be the person I am today without her, so thank you Cass! This one's for you girlie! Love you! <3


XO
Jay <3

60 day Challenge

So, I guess this post competes with all the others about the new year and the annoying resolutions that go along with it. I chose not to make resolution this year because if I want to make a change, and I mean really make one, I want it to be because it's something that I really want to do, instead of something that I feel like I have to do. (That was a huge run-on sentence) I mean, the whole joke about resolutions is that no one sticks with them! BUT ... last night we went out to dinner with some friends that had gotten a gift card to Olive Garden. We stuffed ourselves to capacity and when we got back to their house, C's fiancee brought up this topic of a 60 day couples challenge.

So here's the deal: Which ever couple loses the most combined weight takes the other couple out to dinner and a movie at a chosen restaurant. We will have a halfway weight in 30 days (Feb 15) and then the final weight in will take place (March 16)

Well that sounds all fine and good, but here's the catch 22: Cowboy (the nickname I finally came up with for my boyfriend, who doesn't want me writing about him .. because he's silly) was in a serious accident in Sept and still has a broken wrist. So that pretty much leaves me partner less. SO now it's up to me to carry our team! Yikes!

But all in all I think that this is a pretty neat idea. C is planning for an August wedding and she wants to get back in shape, and I've been looking for motivation only for forever. So I'll let you all know how it goes. And maybe you can hold me to it as well, so long as you don't judge!

Actually I think that would be a good idea, putting up pictures on here and keeping a log of everything I do, my progress, and my joys as I lose this weight. Like I said, so long as you don't judge or be hurtful!!

Any who, other than that our life has been pretty quiet. I just found a part time job, nothing special, but at least it something since losing my other one in November. I'm itching to be back in school, but I think that has to stay on hold for a while. I miss the feeling of cooking in the classroom. Don't get me wrong, I cook almost every meal at my house, but it's just not the same as putting on my whites and being in the classroom. Cowboy's recovery has been slow and painful, but hopefully we are now on the upwards climb!

How was everyone else's New Year? Any other resolutions?

Xo
jay <3