these people are important to me

i just went home to michigan this past week. i hadn't been home in roughly 8 months. 8 months makes you forget a lot of things. i forgot how much fun all the people i left back in michigan are. it was a crazy whirl-wind trip that was not exactly restful. but i got to see all the people that are quite possibly the coolest people in the entire world. i dont think i stopped laughing the whole trip. i now have a six pack. its a miracle.

this is abigail. abby and i have been friends since....birth, i guess. we grew up in church and bonded over our giantism (we were both extremely tall at the age of about 9). i hated her for a bit in middle school because i was a moody pre-teen, and she tried to steal the boy i had a crush on. we call those the lost years. we are better now. funny facts about abby.

1. she is the craftiest person in the world. more than martha stewart. we were going to start a cupcake business but didnt because i can't exactly cook and abby would of had to carry the whole operation. and we didnt have any money or client-base. but it would of rocked.
2. shes a mommy. to a dog named lola. that finally likes me and doesnt bite me anymore. thanks for loving auntie andrea lola. i love you too.
3. shes has to hide her love of jersey shore from her husband. he doesnt understand. she calls him a grenade. he doesnt understand what that means. but i think its funny. (dan's not really a grenade)
4. she has flexible feet. just found that out. she cant be a marathon runner anymore. i dont think she ever wanted to, but now she cant. pretty good reason.

this is tara. ive been friends with her since i was about 2. our parents are bffs. i call her parents aunt becky and uncle tim. our fathers actually look like brothers...and act like brothers...and smell like brothers. its kind of freaky really. anyway, tara is pretty awesome. she might actually come out to visit me one of these days. shes a smarty-pants. i think its good to surround yourself with people that are smart. it makes you look smart. and you dont have to google stuff all the time because they know the answers. shes going for nuclear medicine. its a little intimidating. she is also one of the quirkiest people that i know. so it evens out the intimidating factor a bit. plus i knew her when she was dumb.


this is hillary. homahgawd she is so funny. been friends with her since highschool. lived with her for a bit in grand rapids. she is ridiculous. and extremely unassumingly funny. at first she looks like she is going to pound your face in if you look at her the wrong way, but mostly she is just thinking about stupid stuff, like harry potter, or food, or her obese dog jack and whether or not he is eating out of the compost bucket again. shes a dental hygenist with bad allergies. she sticks kleenexes up her nose (like you would if you had a bloody nose) and puts her mask on. i think this is hilarious, and it also makes me wonder what other dental hygenists have under their masks. one time hillary and i sat in taco bell for 4 hours discussing harry potter. thats all we talked about. it was a good time.

these are my college roomates (well minus felice, i never lived with her, but she was always around). it goes felice, marjie, melissa, me and elin. melissa just got married this past saturday in canada and we all ventured over. missed these girls. it was a riot, that wedding. i sweated about half my body weight off that night. it was sexy.

this is my mother. she is hilarious. my whole family is hilarious. she doesnt like pictures of her laughing hard, but i really like this picture. its her mid-laugh. shes really blunt. its annoying, but good too. i basically do whatever she wants me to, after i fight with her for hours about it. she suggested the college that i attend, she told me about americorps. now she wants me to move home. she didnt say 'andrea, move home', its more like 'andrea, you are always welcome home'. thanks mom. im glad im welcome. she doesnt like to see her children move away. she only has alli at home now. and alli will move to cambodia, or new zealand, or somewhere extremely far away and we will never see her again because thats what alli likes to do. im sorry mom.

and this little gem is alli. my little sister. i love her. she is my best friend. look how cute she is. ugh i miss her already. oh well ill see her in a couple months.

so i had a ton of fun at home. now back to reality. not so much fun.