Things True Friends Do

You know how mothers always say that their biggest accomplishment is having a baby? Well I sorta feel that way, but with my friends. I like to consider myself a pretty sociable person, which leads me to have a wide variety of friends, and for them, I am forever grateful.
Someone told me it was National Best Friends Day today. While I don't think this is true, it's no excuse not to tell our friends how much we appreciate them. So what do true friends do?
In case you haven't noticed, lists are my preferred method of blogging. Woooo go me.

*clears throat*

1) Write terrible haikus, joke about submitting them to your school's literary magazine, but secretly really want to do it.
"Defenestration

The victims are as follows

Russian journalists"

2) Look people up on white pages and then go to their houses. I have to say that I'm guilty of this with a couple friends. It's not that we're that creepy, there's really only so much you can do at this age.

3) Nickname everyone you've ever seen. We have a name for everyone. Yes, even you.

4) Be there through tears. Are you a teenage girl? You will suffer through that moment in your life where all you can do is cry. This is where your friends come in.

5) Buy your other friend a goldfish for her birthday, name it after a senior boy, keep it in your locker, and then watch it die three days later. Needless to say, I'm not friends with this person anymore.

RIP Pooh Bear. Xoxo.

Other honorable mentions

6) Plan out your future. For example, I'm going to live in Chadds Ford, send my kids (Brynley and Penn) on missions trips, make Brynley take dance lessons, but never let her find out about lacrosse.

7) Pretend our lives are so much more fabulous than they really are. I'm best friends with Serena van der Woodsen. She's our school's "it" girl, but it's awkward for her because she has no one to sit with at lunch.

8) Fawn over videos of cute animals. A baby bear stuck in cabbage at the grocery store? Who needs math homework?

9) Have a correspondence with someone staying in the same hotel as you. Yup, we left notes for some people down the hall. And they wrote back.

10) Eat ice cream.

-----xoxo,

                D.

Hello, Summer.

Oh! So now I remember why I don't like summer! This calls for a list:
1) Mosquito bites. Dude, it's my blood; get your own. If you want blood so badly, next time think twice about being a mosquito.
2) The heat. Hooray for northeastern and mid-Atlantic summers. Not only is it not enough to be 90+ degrees all the time, the weather gods just NEED to torture us with extreme humidity. Oh, and it doesn't help to live in an area so fertile that there are plants everywhere. Dumb plants, stop torturing us with your humidity.
3) The sun. Seriously, you walk outside for like 5 minutes and risk getting skin cancer.
4) Lack of tv choices. New shows and new seasons don't start until fall. Need I say more?
5) Summer work. Summer was more enjoyable back in middle school when the most you had to do was read three books. Personally, I enjoy the social aspect of school. Summer is school without the social aspect. And bugs and heat and sun and lack of tv choices.