Memories of you

Recently the cool thing to do has been to post something on your blog about each of your followers. Since I'm graduating this week and leaving Logan, I've decided to post a memory for each of you - either my first memory of you, or one of my favorite memories of you.

• Remember how we made a bet that if I wasn't married by the time I was 21 you owed me 99 red balloons? I do . . . . you still owe me . . .
• One time a few years ago my roommates and I were sitting in our kitchen having a deep and intimate discussion of which boys we liked and recounting our romantic pasts and suddenly you were standing in our living room and we realized that you'd been sitting in there the whole time, playing the piano. And we all just stared open mouthed at you, and I don't think I've ever blushed so hard in my life. We laughed pretty hard as soon as you left. But I think you were oblivious to the whole thing, ha ha.
• Remember how I was going through a difficult time, but pretending to everyone that I totally wasn't, and you saw right through me and somehow got me to open up and spill everything to you? That actually helped me more than you will ever know. You have a real gift and I hope that you know that.
• Remember how last year we would have heart-to-hearts at the kitchen table every day, and you would tell me all about your latest boy drama? I loved it. I loved hearing every little detail and I feel like that was when our friendship really cemented. I'm glad we've been able to bond over our boy dramas.
  
• I remember the first time I met you. You'd just been through a breakup and the whole night I kept watching you to see if you would show it somehow, but you never did. I was really impressed by your ability to hide your thoughts from everyone so easily. I think that you're a really deep and thoughtful person, but a lot of people don't realize it because you're so good at hiding it. I was impressed.
• I don't have one favorite memory of you - I have lots of little ones, mostly of us being nonsocial together, ha ha. I'm really glad that we could be antisocial together - it was because of that that I think I opened up to you more than I did with anyone else. What I love most about you is that you're unafraid to be completely yourself and that you don't give in to anyone else.
• Remember that time we ran a mile every hour for 24 hours? Oh man, that was utterly miserable, let's never do it again, no matter what anyone says. However, I have to admit that that experience permanently changed my perception of you. I was thoroughly impressed by your determination, I didn't realize you were so hard core. I think our friendship grew a ton from that bonding experience, and from that day (that exceedingly LONG day) on I have considered you one of my closest friends. You genuinely are an amazing friend and I have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know you.
• Remember how we spent a glorious two weeks watching our favorite tv show together every day? Ah, those were the days. We bonded together over gory surgical scenes and other people's dramas. I seriously looked forward to our GA time together more than anything else, I loved having this little activity that was just ours.
  
• I remember the first time I met you - I honestly thought you were one of THE coolest people I'd ever met. You were so straightforward and genuinely unique and I really wanted to get to know you. I'm sorry I didn't get more of a chance to, but I am glad that I got to know you at least a little. You honestly make me smile every time I see you.
• Remember that time we put a cute little rat in the boys' apartment? We lovingly cared for little Harry for days, letting him run around the floor, trying to get him to like us so we could hold him, cleaning out his nastier-than-all-get-out cage every freakin day cuz he smelled so badly. Ah, that was so fun - I was thoroughly impressed by your nonphobia of rats and I'm so glad that you were cool enough to carry out such an epic prank with me. PS I still miss that cute little guy.