Flashback!

How awesome is this picture? Since I don't yet have a scanner at my house, I rely on my friends to post these fabulous old pictures. My friend Heather put this one up on FaceBook, and it is a classic. It is me, Heather, and Jen at Heather's birthday -- I think it was her 16th or 17th birthday, which would make me 15 or 16....but I am pretty sure I am 15 here, just about to turn 16.

Back then, we would ride around in Heather's huge, old yellow car and just go all over the place. This was after Jen and I got out of the goth stage, and when I have a scanner here at home, I just might post some of those pics. We still considered ourselves alterna-girls because we would NEVER have been mainstream, oh no we wouldn't. Heather was more of a hippie-type girl -- she went to one of the neighboring high schools and I had met her at church.

One of the coolest things is that Jen is still one of my best friends, and I am still friends with Heather and very good friends with her sister, Sunny. Most of the people I was close to then, and from when I was 5, I am still close to know, which is a very long time. My closest college friends, except a few, are still some of my closest friends, too. And I know that the awesome friends I have made in Jax, I will be friends with for a very, very long time. I think it is a pretty good character trait, despite all of my craziness and bouncing around, that my friends are really important to me and I work to keep those friendships last. Boyfriends on the other hand......

Let's not even go there.