Flashback Friday - 7 Years (or so)

Hey it's Friday - which means it's Photo Friday. And I'm glad for that because really? notime i'mSUPERstressed andbarelyhadalunchbreak.

you can click for a larger image (sorry in advance - my scanner sucks!)

Woo! Look how tan I am!

I can't remember exactly when this picture was taken. Maybe one of my friends will tell me later. I think either the summer before or the summer after my freshman year in college. So 2000/2001ish. Give or take a chunk of my memory. Yeah it runs away sometimes.

Moving on. These people are some of my bestests. Hopefully they won't be mad at me for posting this, but I digress. Several of them are married. Their weddings, beautiful. I miss them all dearly. They're spread out across the country (my friend Nate moved to Hollywood even!), but through the wonders of facebook/myspace I keep in touch with a few of them still. Jenn (in the green tank) and I call each other a few times a week. She moved out to Columbus for a few years but then back to Erie for a job. I tell her all the time to move back. I miss her!

I get sad when I look at this sometimes (it's in my office still in the same frame I got it in for a birthday present from Kristy & Lisa), but mostly just sad because I miss them. Sad that I spent the majority of my high school years frolicking with a boy who in the long run meant nothing. That is one of the very few regrets I have. Hold on to your friends and cherish the time you can spend with them. Because soon you'll all be off and married, with kids of your own wishing you could go back to those days of slumber parties, bonfires, and underage drinking. Oh the memories.