Favorite Stories with Favorite Friends

I met Katie at Westminster during our first semester. We had the same chemistry class and ended up being partners in our chemistry lab. Since then we have been pretty unseperable. There are so many stories I would love to share about her and I, but it seems I will just have to pick one... Katie and I both share the same fear of spiders. We were going out one night and she was on her way to my house to come get me when I noticed a little spider up in the corner wall of my bathroom. When Katie walked in, I told her about it and told her that we needed to kill it because it was just going to creep me out if it stayed. We both creeped up the stairs, around the corner and found our victim. I decided I would turn my hair dryer on full blow and try and overheat the sucker to death. After an attempt that resulted in the both of us screaming, Katie suggested chemicals. Out came the windex. Katie carefully climbed the counter to get a closer aim. She sprayed and the spider came falling onto the counter. Again, this resulted in many high pitched screams from the both of us. We kept drowning the creature in windex until it could barely move. SMASH! We got it with the kleenex box. Phew! This whole ordeal took about 7 minutes... It just cracks me up now how much we screamed and the time it took for us to conquer our quest. In the end, we finished what we started out to do, and I was able to go into my bathroom later that night with a calm state of mind!
Michelle has been one of my best friends since childhood. We grew up together playing everyday from the moment we were out of school until we were summoned inside at night to go to bed. I remember playing super heros, warewolves (if that is how you spell it), boyfriends, nursing bugs in our own bug hospital and so on... One out of the many stories I can remember with Michelle was when we were about 9 years old. We had decided to make cookies. We went over to my house and put all the ingredients together and successfully made our dough. After the dough was finished, we decided we didn't want to go through the whole baking process, so instead we used our dough as an object of play. We ran up the stairs at my house and began throwing the dough on the wall above us to see how long it would stick, and as soon as it came plumeting down we would attempt to catch it. We did this for quite a while before getting bored with the idea and throwing our dough away. That incident left a mark. For years, there were grease stains in the shape of big balls on the wall in our stairway. In fact, I got myself to clean them off just this last summer!
Andrea and I met when I was a sophmore in high school. She has been through thick and thin with me, but I still love the story of our introduction. We were both into volleyball in high school, and one particular night we were playing at open gym. I hadn't ever really talked to her before, but we ended up being on the same team together. I wasn't doing my best that night and had messed up on a few passes on such. My turn came to serve the ball, and it was a bad serve. Andrea, who was still a stranger to me at this point, ran up to me and smacked my behind. It kind of took me by surprise and when I looked at her she just said, "Yeah...and if you do it again I will just hit you harder!" After that, we were friends. This memory reflects Andrea's personality to the T. She is the most honest, blunt and straight forward person I know. That is what I love about her. I know if I ever need an honest, true opinion, I can count on her. On occasion she doesn't tell me what I want to hear, but her judgement has always led me down the right path. She is my strength and I don't know where I would be without her!
Jed and Spencer. That just about says it all. I met these two at Westminster as well. They are both in the nursing program with me, and we have been friends since day 1. I actually met Jed first last year, and he introduced me to Spencer this year, and we hit it off just as well. I love these boys! One of my favorite memories with them was actually on the night that this picture was taken. We didn't do much, but the laughter that we shared made it worth everything. We went to a coffee shop in Sugar House to get some hot chocolate. We sat and talked for quite some time and as we were leaving, it was starting to snow outside. We went to my house and talked for about two hours and laughed and laughed. They are seriously some of the funniest people I know, and I can always count on them to put a smile on my face. We left my house to go to the school so that the boys could get their cars, and as we were leaving, we started up a massive snow ball fight. Jed was hiding in the car :), but that didn't necessarily that he was free from the war. He was still hit... Oh man...what a fun night... They are like my brothers who will always be there for me when I need a friend.