Nineteen things I love about December

my mother's snowman plates . sparkly christmas lights . midnight sledding . grandma's sugar cookies . snow days . birthday wishes . ten card rummy . anticipation . fuzzy sweaters . caroling on christmas eve . baby it's cold outside . stockings . homemade christmas decorations . remembering why we celebrate christmas . snow angels . chocolate kisses . real kisses . family . peace on earth

Oh roommates.

So these girls are my roommates. And this post is mostly for them, although I think it applies to other subjects as well. I guess you could say I am feeling just a little sad today. So this is for them.

First, I met both of them at the beginning of my second semester at school. I met Kelsey (on the right) first. She was right across the hall and the first time I talked to her she was putting up a bulletin board full of pictures of all her friends. My first impression of her was that she knows how to be a good friend. And it turns out I was right. She is loyal and caring. She is smart and shares good advice. I honestly can not get dressed in the morning without her fashion advice. Something I have learned from her is how to be more assertive. She is a go-getter but in a good way. She knows how to read people and sometimes I think she knows me better than I do.

Courtney's story is a little different. The first time I met her I had just gotten home from dance and she was coming over to look at our apartment because she was thinking about moving into our empty bedroom. She thought I was a dork because she comes in and I am totally still wearing my purple leotard and pink tights. I'm really glad she still decided to move in after that. She is the kind of friend that everyone needs to have. Her perspective on life is so different from mine and it reminds me of the things that are important in life. She is happy and carefree. She is the kind of friend who backs you up no matter what. Also she lets me borrow her shoes. :) In the last two semesters she has taught me that it's ok to be yourself no matter what.

Our personalities are slightly different from each other but we all love One Tree Hill and sushi and don't love the "spritzer girls". Sometimes we disagree, but we will be best friends for a long time to come and down the road when we all have husbands and babies we will get together and reminisce on the good old days back in college.

For example:
Staying up until the sun came up writing papers and doing homework and throwing vegetables across the parking lot at the tuscany girls.
Driving to Moses Lake and getting to play in the water all day like it was summer. Only it wasn't.
Going cliff jumping or floating the canal or whatever we could do to avoid class in the summer.
Watching all four seasons of One Tree Hill and obsessing over Prison Break.
The Office.
Crying and laughing together.
The Cocoa Bean and Wingers and the oriental chicken.
Making banana cookies and bread and cake until like two a.m.
Boys, boys and more boys.
Thinking that getting a cat was a smart idea.
Laughing and rolling our eyes every time anyone said anything about my crazy hair.
Getting so used to each others ring tones that when someone elses phone rang, it felt like it was yours.

I'm going to miss you guys. April isn't too far away I guess.