40 Days of Blessings

Day 5: Girlfriends & Keri vs. Katy

I am absolutely blessed with the best girlfriends a girl could ever ask for in her life. From my high school days to graduate school in Charleston, I have made wonderful friendships with the most spontaneous and fun women in the South.  I love any reunion that brings us all back together and only wish that there were more opportunities for us to do so more often.

Yet, despite how little we may see each other, it always feels like it was just yesterday when we were devouring cheese bings and downing Big Gulps at OCI, sharing the same loving cup around an enthused little circle, dancing wildly in the living room of the Laurel house, finding Krystals, Jimmy Johns or Taco Bell in our bed, looking for lost shoes at Pike date parties, watching Sex and The City reruns cramped in a single Massey room, running from bar to bar with trash bags over our heads, drinking margaritas at Agave for each birthday that came and went...

...working gamedays and enjoying at least 2-3 “Sterchi” hot dogs before the shift had even started, hanging out with Nicky all summer long, playing Wii while avoiding a swift little shank, doing the Carlton over and over again at your best friend’s request, turning 21 every time someone else did, breaking bird feeders as an undercover troll, parading the streets as “Snookie” wannabes, stealing boxers from a bartender and slipping them on for a try, jumping spiral staircases with a cereal bowl in our hand, partying at the loft when there wasn’t a lick of furniture, laughing at texts from the night before, playing a little game of Rutabaga with no teeth, getting through bad hair cuts and bad break ups...

...spending as many summer nights in the “boom-boom” room of Trio, spending time on the road from dance competitions to family vacations, preparing for mixers as if it were our day job, sprinting up 7 flights of stairs to dodge unruly RA’s, tanning under the Destin and Bahaman sun, texting during any and all Bachelor episodes, taking naps on brownies while horses race around an oh-so-familiar track and crawling like Pandas all through the night.

I miss you all to say the least! Thank you for being such beautiful blessings in my life! I absolutely treasure our friendships and all of our crazy memories! I LOVE YOU, MY HONEYS!!

Hope you all had a great Monday! I was torn between Katy Perry's "California Gurls" and Keri Hilson's "Pretty Girl Rock" for tonight's music video. Click on the song titles to listen to either or :) Good night!