Today was a really good day. I spent most of it with my very best friend Krista. She gave me my birthday gift, which is this amazing pottery vase that she made. She normally makes my gifts and she always tries to graft as much of who I am into them as possible. She always ends up amazing me.
We spent our time together running around the mall picking up odds and ends, spending gift certificates, returning stuff etc. I picked up a new journal, since my other one is almost full, got some beading fixings and some ear rings. I also bought some stuff for my camera... oh, did I mention I GOT A CAMERA! This just about blew me away. It's a great camera, very similar to the model I borrowed from Katie all year.
Krista and I are not big shoppers, so we "left as quickly as we came in" and rolled over to the coffee shop for some beverage. I ran into my Jonathan there. This happens a lot actually, running into him at the coffee shop. Huh, this is actually ironic. Last Christmas I ran into him at the coffee shop after Chris and I "finally" started dating. He had never met Chris, although when I first started to get to know him I asked Jonathan to kill him for me multiple times (a good sign of future relationships, I am sure). So, I see Jonathan there last Christmas and told him that Chris was now my boyfriend, and there was great rejoicing and awkward conversation. Anywho, so this year I see Jon boy and he is with another of my dear dear friends Kirsten and AAAAAAAAAAAKK!!! They are dating now! Finally!! Hopefully this will last more then my six month thing. I was so excited I was jumping up and down and spinning and imagining a great fiesta had just broke out and stuff. I said: "I feel like I just had a baby or something!" Jonathan and Kirsten gave me my boot camp training in being "in the middle." They both filled my ears about thoughts on each other for years and I listened and made suggestions as I saw fit, but was always scared to death of betraying the confidence of the other. Well, if I did and all I think it's working out as it should. I gave up on them all together in the last two years. Yay!
Anywho, we talked for a long time. Then Jonathan (who is the same personality type as I am) started getting antsy because people they knew started "swarming" in and taking over the place. So they took off and Krista and I had a good long talk about life: past, present and future. Mostly we talked about love and how our understanding of what it is has grown and changed over the years. She has stuck with me so long and despite knowing all of my peccadilloes... (the damn quotes not here, but read them all anyway because they are all worth memorizing and commiting to serious thought and action) I think whatever Krista and I share, it must be love.
*grins* Happy place.