I remember the first time that I actually met her. I had decided to spend my vacation (also Christmas) with Matt and Mary and I was SOOO nervous! My first thought was that if Mary and I didn't hit it off, it was going to be a LONG vacation! Thankfully, we did hit it off. We even managed to pull a pretty amazing prank for Christmas too :). Seriously, what was Matt thinking when he introduced Mary and I?
I have to tell you the prank we pulled though. So Matt had been begging Mary to open his Christmas presents before Christmas. The second I walked into their apartment for the first time, he said, "Erin's here, can we open presents now?" The answer was no. Soon after I got there, Matt had to go to work so Mary and I were on our own (Bad Idea!!). We went to Target and found this mesh panty and bra set. We thought they were pretty hideous looking because they were also this horrid bright blue color (and I like blue). We then went in search for decorations. We found jingle bells, tassels feathers, and garland. We decorated them as fast as we could because he was on his way home. We wrapped them and everything. That night, I shared with Mary that in my family, we open one Christmas present on Christmas Eve (Which happened to be the day I was telling her about this). Matt got really excited and begged Mary to follow my tradition. This was obviously staged by Mary and myself.
We handed Matt he bra and underwear set and he didn't even take it out of the wrapping paper. He got so red. Mary said, "Matt, we worked really hard on those!" So he ended up pulling it out and slipping the underwear over his pants (as far as he could) and "modeled" them for us. We didn't think that part through. I was begging him to not model them for us!
Last night, Matt was at work and Mary was bored. My husband was also away, so this left Mary and I ALONE! Leaving us alone is yet another bad idea. We talked for a few hours. I think my favorite thing was that we were talking about death and the husbands kicking the bucket. Mary and I have this standing vacation if Matt kicks the bucket. Then we talked about if her and I were to go first. The husbands don't get much of anything. So then I told Mary that if she does go first, my vote is that she comes back as her dog's voice. That way #1 Matt will be pretty freaked out by the dog speaking, and #2 it having his dead wife's voice would be priceless. We both decided that we wanted to be there for that moment just to see his face. I also said that God does have a sense of humor and I'm willing to bet that we could get God to help us with a prank on Matt. I think God would be an excellent prankster! I told her that it would be funny if Matt sees her in heaven and talks to her, it would be funny if she responded in her dog's voice.
I may have a bit of a twisted sense of humor. At least it's shared right?
It's just so great to have really good friends even after all these years. I can count on them in the hard times and they can count on me. I have people in my life who desire me to have friends in the same state/city as me, but because I have these two REAL friends (plus my husband), I don't feel the need to seek out new best friend relationship material people. I'm satisfied with my life, excited about my life, because I have truly amazing people who love me no matter the mistakes I make. Isn't this the kind of relationships people are looking for? This is not to say that if I meet someone, we hit it off, that I wouldn't be unwilling to friend or even best friend them. Relationships like these don't come by everyday, when they do, we should hold on as tight as we can.
We have to have roommates when we end up in those old folk homes right? I'm glad I'll have Matt and Mary and my husband to cause a bit of chaos with.
Look out future nursing staff everywhere, we're coming!
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