* Road-dated using whiteboard and horn
* Muppet song in the middle of the night while driving (using Kermit & Fozzy finger puppets)
* Drank expensive wine in DC and charged it to company account
* Watched clouds while laying out on the driveway
* Mimed to Air Supply song (oh yes, we wore leotards and white makeup)
* Toured grounds of National Cathedral at midnight (and chatted up security guards)
* Pulled a "Memphis" (Those guys never knew what hit 'em)
* World's Largest Ball of Twine
* Sent flashlight "messages" back and forth between our bedroom windows next door to eachother
* Swim team and soccer matches
* Hide and seek to dry off after spending the summer days in the pool
* Street corner talks
* Four Words: Danny.Price's.Alien.Bong.
* How the hell did we get home from that Candlebox/Eddie Money concert after mandatory Wild Turkey shots?
* New Year's Eve, Mill Avenue, clove cigarettes
* Cutting up confetti, sneaking booze and twirling in circles on New Year's Eve in my backyard when we were kids (while listening to the top 100 music countdown)
* The Boy Book and MASH (mansion, apartment, shack, house)
* Many, many hangovers
* Letters from college
* Sharing the saddest and most difficult times we've had
* Swapping yearbooks, posing for pictures
* Riding in the back of your dad's pickup truck on the way home from the Wall Ball Palace
* Playing dress up with fake jewels and fox furs
* Dressing up my brother with fake jewels and fox furs
* Turn Around Bright Eyes and karaoke before it was really Karaoke
* Cleaning our rooms and riding our bikes
* Walking to Circle K to buy candy drops on sheets of paper
* Hanging out to watch "skater boys" - or any boys for that matter
* Mud pies, forts and lighting "books" on fire (pyro)
* Sleepovers, light-as-a-feather, Ouija boards
* 27 years of friendship this year and oh the adventures to come!
happy birthday Remi!
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and 31 more...
1. trampoline routines to Jittterbug
2. submarine submerge
3. fresh strawberries thrown in the pool to clean them off
4. one armed bandits and $800+ bucks baby!!
5. Buddy Christ in Vegas
6. My best friend's wedding and thankfully no gaudy bridesmaid dress was required!
7. shots of Jaeger and my brother's "green monster"
8. trying to wear make up during sleep overs w/o parental units finding out
9. Prince, Madonna, Chicago 17, Def Leopard and many others
10. pound puppies and cabbage patch dolls
11. soup can and string telephones between our bedrooms & houses
12. Smoking like french women
13. Happy hours comparing our friendship to 2 old ladies reminiscing about their pasts
14. Scrubbing your driveway in order to put on a show complete with legwarmers for the folks
15. Railroad tie yard divider gymnastics/balance beam beauties
16. uh...can we say tatoo?
17. Who the hell we pick up at Oktoberfest in tempe?
18. Live meathook hangings in Knoxville (prior to pulling the Memphis)
19. too many bad boyfriends to count.
20. Margarita, Margarita, Margarita
21. BFF, LYLAS
22. Baking one giant chocolate chip cookie with our handprints in the middle
23. Honestly telling each other our big hair looked good
24. Tiger beat pin ups plastered to our bedroom walls
25. Being there for one another for both life and death in our lives
26. Thank you Northstar & Cowboy and mr. Pickle!
27. Make believe photo scavenger hunts to get our pictures with every fire station we passed on our road trips
28. Zozobra, art galleries & chili peppers in New Mexico
29. Knowing that you know all of my firsts
30. concoting non alcoholic drinks as kids...and now concocting very alcoholic drinks as adults
31. chasing down the ice cream man in our neighborhood even when the song was clearly several blocks away
one to grow on...
32. KNOWING THAT WE ARE STILL FRIENDS BECAUSE WE HAVE TOO MUCH BLACKMAIL INFO ON EACH OTHER!!
Shall we go for 31 more?
1. Smoking cheetos.
2. Johnny Depp movies.
3. Photo booth pictures.
4. Young Einstein and seeing Sinbad at the Metro movie theatre.
5. Phone call -
Remi to Roxy: "Hey, I'm at the airport.
Roxy to Remi: "Cool, where you going."
Remi to Roxy: "Washington DC to visit you."
6. Cul-de-sac baseball, kickball, football, soccer
7. Hopscotch and four-square
8. Sitting in your backyard in your parents boat
9. Fourth of July on the roof of our houses.
10. Painting clown faces on one another.
11. Sneaking down to the canal to get baby frogs.
12. Going to see "Clue" for your birthday. It was in the theaters and it was the one where Ms. Scarlett did it.
13. Commodore 64 "Olympic Games" video game.
14. Great Skate - "All skate, change direction."
15. Cholla Jr. High hostage crisis led to all of us being pulled out of school to have grilled cheese sandwiches at your house.
16. Zumanity in Vegas.
17. Round the World and H.O.R.S.E.
18. Exercises to increase our bust sizes (well, yours worked)
19. Happy Hours.
20. Pretending that the spa in the pool was really the bar and that our imaginary boyfriends were bartenders (thankfully, this is when we were really young)
21. Friendship bracelets and Best Friends necklaces.
22. Making our own vests and learning how to sew.
23. Twirling batons and gymnastic ribbons.
24. Riding in the Windowless Wonder.
25. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in and out of eachother's houses.
26. Josh Cook and David Dunfee - two boys I remember from the Boy Book.
27. Barenaked Ladies - my favorite song, you're puking in the port-o-johns.
28. Lemon tree nights.
29. Driving around expensive neighborhoods to look at houses we would buy if we were rich.
30. Bar poetry written on napkins
31. Marvin, I love you.
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