hello, goodbye

The target commercial kept playing in my head yesterday, but mostly b/c of the song not the advertisement. And I think I learned the beatles sing that song, right?

We'll start w/ the "hello" part. On friday night I went over to the Stirrup Queens blog to read about the weekly blog roundup. I skimmed it b/c my time was limited. But I saw the last blog had the name "duck" in it and my eyes widened! Could it be? My old buddy from "speculum stories"? I clicked over and the header pic gave her away and I knew I had found her! I hadn't heard or read from her in months! I think just as long as my pregnancy. I would constantly check to see if the blog was back up but had no luck each time. Now, I saw Duck had started a new blog, which mad me happy to be able to share w/ her again, but also b/c of the good news!! Her suro was pregnant w/ her baby!! Yay!! I left a comment and she replied and I'm glad. I was and still am pulling for her and her baby. And so, hello to Duck (again).

And now, the goodbye. One of my bestfriends is leaving back "home". I met her in 2004 and we've been quick friends since then. We met online and while we have been great at being email buddies (sometimes like 20 a day! And still get work done), we had a blast when we'd hangout. We even lived in the same apt complex w/ literally only the parking lot in between our apts. We weren't the kind to talk everyday on the phone and maybe it was b/c of the emails, but it was ok. In these 5 years we've seen each other through a lot of crap, including IF. Each month we'd pull for each other and share what we did 'different' or new technique we'd read about. We also shared our first home puchases, hubby stuff, family drama, my wedding and the birth of our first (and my second) children. And she's never fully been happy in southflorida. She got a transfer to move back to NJ and she took it. She leaves today, for good. I'm going to miss her being down here. I'm going to miss our karaoke nights too. No one else I know, does karaoke like us. So, goodbye Nic, I'll miss you girl, but thankgoodness for nationwide minutes on our cell phones!