SECOND ESPRESSO BEVERAGE OF THE DAY
My type.

They’re already close to your heart.
Just a couple more days to enter!
End of the day Skype convo:
Rayne: :( she needs some dynafire. i’m sure we’ve got some around here somewhere
CarrieAnn: I know we must but I can’t find the activator
Kristi: what is dynafire?
CarrieAnn: Die in a fire.
Kristi: oh *facepalm*
CarrieAnn: Taylor said it a few weeks back and I was busy and heard “dynafire”
CarrieAnn: I was like… what the fuck is dynafire?
Kristi: as soon as you typed that i remembered and promptly felt like an idiot lol
Kristi: i may or may not have googled “dynafire” (doh)
Some days, I love my job more than words
I pulled up the Facebook profile of my high school bff and this is what I found in the Interests section:
Walt Disney World, Lamar Advertising of Milwaukee, FARRELLS ICE CREAM PARLOR, Chase Community Giving, New York City Dance Alliance, Young Dance Academy, Jayne Ann Krentz, The Animal Rescue Site, DIS RADIO - Disney Information Station Radio, MouseSavers.com, The DIS, Oak Creek Garage Door Co., Walt Disney Records, MAKING DRUG TEST MANDATORY FOR WELFARE, Conan O’Brien Presents: Team Cocoand 3 more
I pulled up my own Info page and this is my Interests section:
Iced coffee, Abandoned Souls, The Color Pink, Love, Vaping, Camping, Social media, Big wedges of lime, Corona, Blogging, Motorcycles, Horrible coffee that makes me wince, Mediocre Coffee, Really Good Coffee, Iced coffee, espresso, big dogs, floppy eared beagels, coffee on my balcony in the morning, NOT using plastic water bottles, leather, tank tops, big boots, skeleton keys, rocks, crystals and stones.
Her profile image looks similar to this (though I won’t use the actual picture)

Mine looks like this:

I think our roads definitely diverged somewhere… and that has made all the difference.
I occasionally mourn the loss of old friends. I am happy to be in contact with some of them, if only to say hello on occasion. But people change and sometimes we take the path we’re meant to take and nothing else would have been right.