Jen is so lovely because she is my constant moral compass - where others would have given up long ago, I think. She is always reminding me to be kind and fair, the two things I forget first. Working through outside issues in our kitchen, I said, "I don't understand. There's nothing to discuss," and she looked at me and I was reminded. "Well... I guess I have to find that 'feelings' switch in my head and turn it on to deal with this."

As Devy B says, "Be kind, baby, be kind."

But maybe Emily summed it up best when we were laughing about things we really shouldn't on the couch: "We're the women who give women a bad name."



Ah, but that's all very dramatic.

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A few weeks ago, I was with Wandy and Gandi and Matt at Whataburger. We were playing the game where you try to remember the first time you met your friends - I had been a little taken aback in the past because both Matt and Andy introduce me to their friends as "This is Taylor, I've known her since high school. Way back."

"I must have met you at Walker's," I said to Andy.
"Yeah, you're right. It was on the back porch. Do you remember what you said to me?"


Apparently our conversation at the time went something like this:
"Hi, I'm Taylor. I've heard a lot about you."
"I'm Andy. I've heard a lot about you, too."
"You're pretty cool."
"I've heard the same about you."
"We should be friends then."