Someone who "gets it" volume two

It was really good to actually spend some good time with my friend today. We were so close while we were growing up and then life just sort of got in the way. You always think to yourself, "Man, I don't do anything. My life is boring." and yet somehow there isn't quite enough time in the day to keep in touch with all of the people you'd like to keep in touch with. Lack of contact doesn't mean lack of thought but still, you blink and years have gone by.

Then you blink again and realize that while time has changed the both of you, underneath all the layers of you that time has added are the same two crazy girls who could spend 45 minutes giggling over the number six, analyze the hair of every cute boy of the SeaQuest cast, finish each other's sentences and once in a while say the exact same thing at the exact same time. It's a bit surreal because so much time has past but mostly, it's comforting.

It's part of the larger picture in the Erin Moves Home Extravaganza.

Most people assume I moved home simply to save money and that's fine. It's easier for everybody that way. Truth be told, I moved home because I needed my family--blood based and extended/adopted. I can handle having zero spare dollars or cents. I lived like that in Las Vegas. If it was merely a matter of money I would have just taken the first person to look at the apartment, regardless of how creepy they made me feel or how much I disliked them.

I had a really really bad year and what it boiled down to was this: More than anything in the world, I need my family. I need the people who knew me when I was drowning in a big black sweatshirt and thinking up ways to make the Drama teacher go bald (and still managed to love me anyway). I need to be around people who, like I said before, "get it." I'm not into starting over with brand new people and a brand new place. This time I am into starting over with the people who really know me (and still put up with me) and who know what I'm about, and can help me remember that because there are days when I really think I've forgotten it all. I'm about reconnecting with those who "get it."

And she gets it. Time has past; huge changes have taken place--but she still gets it.

And that is the best part of all about moving home.

(Plus her daughter is the most adorable creature since adorable was invented.)