Suckerpunched
I'd sort of planned to at least start on a "2006 retrospective" type of post - I do want to do one, more for my own edification than anything. But I got what I believe is the last of my Christmas cards today (*smooches* to mockingbird39, & :P to koneko41 ♥ ), and the third one was from an on-and-off-again friend that I've known since I was 12. She's my age but she was a year ahead of me in school, and she had some stuff go down at the beginning of her grade 11/my 10 and moved away abruptly. I got her address off her sister several years later and we pen-palled it for a while, and sort of lost touch again, and found it, and then she and her husband moved to Florida and it went to, y'know, Christmas cards and the odd email kind of thing. She's the only non-relative that I know from my childhood that I'm in any kind of contact with; she wasn't part of the whole "let's ditch Tas" mass exodus from my life. Anyway, that's a very abbreviated version, but I got a return Christmas card from her today saying that she's now divorced, he came back to Canada, and she'd lost her job due to restructuring but she has a new one now, and she'd love to hear from me.
I do intend to email her; it's not that that prompted me to think out loud here. I just feel completely shocked is all. They went through a tremendous amount of crap to be together and the last I'd really heard, they'd bought a house and were renovating the kitchen. And I guess it feels really weird on a personal level, too, that the date of her legal divorce is within a week of mine (different year), and then the timing of me learning all this - getting her card *today* - is just fucking weird too, which isn't going to make sense to another living soul but that's okay, I just needed to say it.
God. I have this insane urge to go buy two pairs of hi-top Converse All-Stars, one in denim and one in canvas, that are half a size too big for me thereby requiring insoles and send her one of each. Be a total dork and remind her of happier times before life intruded so damn much. (And if that wasn't such a bloody expensive gesture I would.) *sigh*
I do intend to email her; it's not that that prompted me to think out loud here. I just feel completely shocked is all. They went through a tremendous amount of crap to be together and the last I'd really heard, they'd bought a house and were renovating the kitchen. And I guess it feels really weird on a personal level, too, that the date of her legal divorce is within a week of mine (different year), and then the timing of me learning all this - getting her card *today* - is just fucking weird too, which isn't going to make sense to another living soul but that's okay, I just needed to say it.
God. I have this insane urge to go buy two pairs of hi-top Converse All-Stars, one in denim and one in canvas, that are half a size too big for me thereby requiring insoles and send her one of each. Be a total dork and remind her of happier times before life intruded so damn much. (And if that wasn't such a bloody expensive gesture I would.) *sigh*