Happiness Indeed!
Apr. 23rd, 2004 08:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jianantonicEmily Slye, my very best of best friends, has just crossed over! She informed me today that she is going to give the vegetarian thing a try. I'm not like an evangelical vegetarian, and I'm kind of surprised at my own excitement, but it does make me really happy anyway.
The thing about Emily and me...well there are a lot of things...I guess we're not your typical batch of best friends. When I say we've known each other forever, I mean longer than any other friends who aren't related. I've known the girl since she was born (although at age 1 and three weeks, I'm not sure how much I "knew" from the get-go). The point is we grew up together - we didn't meet in school and bond because our Barbie collections complimented each other or anything. And we're not the type of best friends who will be old ladies who go out shopping together and like all the same things and share clothes and stuff like that. We have ladies like that at the jewelry store all the time. If we hadn't been neighbors, I'm not sure if Emily and I ever would have been drawn to each other. I mean, she's the shit, but would I have given her the chance to get to know that? Hard to say. Probably not, really...we didn't cross paths much in school. We're different people - we don't call each other and gossip about our other friends - we hardly have any mutual friends. Our friendship is just so different. In ways we are very much alike. We both know how to correctly spell "masturbate" and emphasize the importance thereof. She gets it.
I guess part of my excitement about her being a vegetarian is that it's a lifestyle that we will both share. We're both liberal, outdoorsy, intelligent chicks...but we express our liberal outdoorsy intelligence in different ways. I'm a hippie who lives on a mountain and she's a mountain woman that lives in the flatlands...and now that we're in different areas, this vegetarian thing is one of the only things we'll both be doing. (She and I both have vegetarian significant others...but I didn't mean it that way at first). Anyway I'm happy about it. And also Emily is cool so here is an entry devoted entirely to her.
Except this one last thing:
How many Vietnam Vets does it take to change a lightbulb?
You can't know! You weren't there!
Hehe. Peace.
The thing about Emily and me...well there are a lot of things...I guess we're not your typical batch of best friends. When I say we've known each other forever, I mean longer than any other friends who aren't related. I've known the girl since she was born (although at age 1 and three weeks, I'm not sure how much I "knew" from the get-go). The point is we grew up together - we didn't meet in school and bond because our Barbie collections complimented each other or anything. And we're not the type of best friends who will be old ladies who go out shopping together and like all the same things and share clothes and stuff like that. We have ladies like that at the jewelry store all the time. If we hadn't been neighbors, I'm not sure if Emily and I ever would have been drawn to each other. I mean, she's the shit, but would I have given her the chance to get to know that? Hard to say. Probably not, really...we didn't cross paths much in school. We're different people - we don't call each other and gossip about our other friends - we hardly have any mutual friends. Our friendship is just so different. In ways we are very much alike. We both know how to correctly spell "masturbate" and emphasize the importance thereof. She gets it.
I guess part of my excitement about her being a vegetarian is that it's a lifestyle that we will both share. We're both liberal, outdoorsy, intelligent chicks...but we express our liberal outdoorsy intelligence in different ways. I'm a hippie who lives on a mountain and she's a mountain woman that lives in the flatlands...and now that we're in different areas, this vegetarian thing is one of the only things we'll both be doing. (She and I both have vegetarian significant others...but I didn't mean it that way at first). Anyway I'm happy about it. And also Emily is cool so here is an entry devoted entirely to her.
Except this one last thing:
How many Vietnam Vets does it take to change a lightbulb?
You can't know! You weren't there!
Hehe. Peace.
