My BFF.

  Yesterday I went into Toronto and spent the day visiting my dearest BFF, seen here. We've been friends since we were 12 and were in the same class, shortly after she moved from Korea. Our other friend was supposed to come as well but he never showed and said he had a family emergency which was too bad but it was kind of nice though just the two of us, like a Girls Day. He was probably afraid that we would spend the day shopping (which we did, ha,ha) and we also went to a Chinese restaurant(her treat, which was nice, and lucky,too, since I'm broke and don't have any $$$$, an endless source of embarrassment and shame for me) and we shopped at the Pacific Mall and were able to find a parking spot luckily, despite the frenzy of Boxing Day shoppers, thanks to the handicapped parking sticker she has in her car for her father, who's now 85, and due to my foot and always limping along, no one would ever question it, either.

  Once we got back together again it was just like old times too and we felt like we were kids again. It felt like something in me was "reborn" and broke thru and I came alive once again. I can still make her laugh too just like I always could and we just laughed so much and so hard we were almost crying and I can't remember the last time I even laughed( it must have been years) and it just felt to good.I felt like my old self again, almost like I was transported back into time, like we were kids again, and she remembered all of our old jokes and laughs still,too. It was wonderful and we shared so many happy and funny old memories and of other old friends and classmates.

  By the end of the day we were also both walking with a limp, like 2 old war cronies, and it worries me too she has this really bad cough, like the Old Man Cough thing we used to joke about as kids, only she said she's had it for awhile now only she doesn't have a cold or allergies and I worry she might have lung cancer, esp. as she does smoke,too, and I realized that now we're the old people we used to think were so funny back then. I prayed my foot would hold out and it did, right until the end but now it's the worst it's ever been and I can't even stand on it now but I got to enjoy my day and I lasted!

  It's funny too how she and I are opposites yet our friendship is so close we're like sisters and it's endured for so long; she's always been so positive and upbeat and I'm so negative(due to my life experiences and misfortunes and bad luck) and she's always been the one to try and cheer me up, reassurring me not to worry, that everything will be ok, and she never gets stressed out or worried about anything and is so easy-going and calm, and she never sees bad in anyone, whereas I'm so jaded(ha ha) and mistrustful and guarded; again, she hasn't been hurt and betrayed in life like I have,either, so it affects the way you see things, but her trusting nature also gets her taken advantage of too, like shopping, for instance, she went into a pricey cosmetics store only intending to buy an eyeshadow....but the saleslady managed to talk her into thinking she also "needed" 2 more eyeshadoes and a couple of blushes and an eyebrow pencil and an 85$ jar of face moisturizer. See, with me, I'd be like, firm, and like, No, thanks, this is it. She's always so quiet and I'm so loud, and yet, here were are, all these years later, still BFF. It was so nice seeing her again.Just like old times. In this case I'm glad that some things never change.