This Is How Rob & Big Must Feel About Each Other
Posted By Kristabella on March 29, 2009
I’m back from my short trip to Minnesota. I had a very nice, relaxing weekend of sleeping in, eating, drinking wine, watching TV and spending a lot of time with good friends. Pretty much a normal weekend in Kristabellikstan. Except, I showered more this weekend.
The night before I left for MN, I met my friend Kristina downtown. I have known Kristina for probably close to 10 years now. We worked together at the 49ers. When we worked together, we were close friends. We joined Weight Watchers together back in 2003 and both had great successes with it. (We’ve both also had a lot of luck in the last four years in putting all the weight back on, too.) She was one of those friends that I knew I would have for life.
In the last four years, we’ve grown apart. She’s gone through some rough times and has come out of them stronger. I don’t keep in touch with her as much as I should. It is HARD to do that when you’re thousands of miles away. We all have lives and we move on.
I had started to feel like we had grown apart for good. We’ve all had friendships like that, I think. Where we change, life gets in the way and we all move on. It’s just a part of life. But I was always sad about it because she and I were so close when we worked together. We had a lot of fun times together and laughed a lot.
But on Thursday night, we got together because her new job brought her to Chicago for work. We met at her hotel bar and had a few drinks and just caught up. It was the first time we had been able to do that, face to face, since I moved back to Chicago. And it was excellent. I don’t have words, really, to describe how excited I am to know that things haven’t changed. Yes, we both no longer work for the 49ers. And we both no longer live in the same area, but our friendship, it remains. And it is going strong.
After meeting her out and drinking a bottle of wine by myself, I got home a little before midnight to pack for my trip to MN this weekend. Word to the wise, don’t pack after you’ve been drinking. You’re bound to forget something. Especially when your flight leaves like 7 hours after you get home and you’re not going to be well-rested.
My trip to MN was to see my friend Julie, who had her baby Noe (sounds like Zoe) in January. Julie’s hubby has been out of town for work for quite a few weeks and I thought I’d go up there while he was still away so I could help her out and provide her some adult conversation and a drinking partner.
I also got to see my friend Sharma, who I have known now for almost 14 years. It’s crazy to think that I’ve known her almost half my life. Who would have thought that when she and I met on the dorm floor at ASU during our freshman year that all these years later, we would still be friends? It is crazy how fast life moves.
My weekend was spent sleeping in, relaxing and catching up with my friends and watching hours of television, which is really an ideal weekend for me. Also, we spent a lot of time watching No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain on the Travel Channel, and I’m not sure why I’m not recording that show. I will be now. I’m also caught up on Real Housewives of NYC as well.
I love babies and I loved meeting Noe, even though I frightened her on Saturday morning since my hair was down instead of up, like it was all day on Friday. Nothing breaks your heart more than a 12 week old baby looking at you and getting the quivering lip and then screaming at the sight of you. I swear people, babies usually love me, so it was heart-breaking for me. But we were back to best friends a few hours later, and we had a fun time playing all day on Sunday.
The last four days were just so much fun. You forget how much you miss close friends, until you spend some time with them. And with all of them, no matter how long it has been since we last talked, we always pick up where we left off and it is always like old times. Those friends are hard to come by and ones I cherish. I think as I get older, I make it a point to keep these friendships going because most of these friends have seen me at my best and my worst and they’ve still stuck around.
Plus, it doesn’t hurt when some of those friends come complete with toothless, baby smiles.
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i do have to say that i’ve been sad to lose some friendships but as time goes, you can tell if they were meant to continue, you will pick up right were you left off.
gorillabunss last blog post..car shopping
Two words: Debbie & Barb. We can go forever without seeing each other and pick up right where we left off….and have known each other for around (YIKES!) 40 years. That’s friendship.
Noe is adorable!!!! Glad you had a good trip.
So great to see you KJ! And little Noe too…. so happy that she woke up long enough to say hi. Hope you had a relaxing weekend and let’s not wait so long before seeing each other again- I’ll have to plan a long weekend in Chicago with Adam soon!
Noe looks like she is planning a funny prank. She is cute!
Did you take advantage of the new Southwest flights to MN? I’m so excited about cheap flights to Chicago!
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Aw, she’s so cute. Other people’s babies are the best, you can give them back when they start crying or need to be changed.
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That baby is preshus. OMG, so adorable.
Glad you had extra time to nap and shower this weekend! 😉
my high school friends are like that. they were, at one point in my life, my entire life. and then we went to separate colleges, got married, got babied and ended up all over the place. but on the rare occasion that we get to see one another, it’s just like the time never passed.
alis last blog post..last things first
that’s pretty much how i define good friendships at this point in my life: the ones who i don’t see regularly, but when we meet up it’s like no time has passed.
ps SMILEY BABY GUMMMMS *melt*
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I have a friend living across the world from me and I know that whenever we meet up and catch up it’s exactly like it always is: amazing and hilarious and just “us.” I love friendships like that.
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Those kinds of friendships are the best.
And that little Noe is the sweetest thing!
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preshus!
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What a sweet baby face.
Hey, did you close??? On your condo??? Did I miss the announcement?
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She’s a doll :). This makes me miss my friend in Atlanta. I’ve not seen her in 3 years, but whenever we do see each other, we just pick up right where we left off. I don’t have many friendships like that, but I cherish the ones that I do.
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We miss you lots, Auntie KJ. And good luck today with El Closing. Come back and see us again soon.
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Holy Moses, that baby is adorable! Sounds like a perfectly lovely weekend to me, too 🙂
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Such a cute baby! Glad you had a good time visiting with old friends. They really are the best, aren’t they?
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