My College Best Friend.. She deserved capital letters.

So because my birthday is so late in the year (12/20) my entire first semester in college i was 17 years old.  We gotta back track a little into the summers of high school.  I was in a local marching band that brought schools in the area together for the erie county fair.  And i did it all four years and my mother hated driving me to it but would brag to everyone about it.  Anyway.   I made a friend Nikki in that marching band and we both went to UB for college.  When i got to my dorm and finally started figuring some stuff out and found nikki she told me I should join marching band.  I wasn't too keen on it.  So she invited me to one party and i liked everyone so i joined.  UNFORTUNATELY, the only instrument i had was a flute.  Originally i wanted to play Tenor Sax but they didn't have instruments to borrow and even then the flute that i had was borrowed for concert band so i joined the flutes.

In the flute section at my first practice i met Jessica and she was the section leader and her best friend Ang.  Ang is also my younger sisters name.  At my second practice they quizzed me to see if i remembered their names.  I said yes and told Ang why i remembered her name.  After some time we started hanging out.  I don't even remember what prompted us to hang out but all of a sudden i remember talking to her every single day and she quickly became my bestest bestie.  Turns out we had a bunch in common.  Her birthday is 12/23 so we celebrated our birthdays together.  Once I took her home to my family and she was looking through an album my sister had made for me of all my pictures growing up.  There was a picture of me when i was four during halloween with this giant inflatable head that was green and the costume said "kooky spook."  She starts laughing hysterically.  She said her and her brother wore that except he was the green one and she was the black one.  It just so happened that my cousin Laurie was the black to my green that year.  And we also later found out that her dog shared the same name as my older brother, Woodrow.

We met the August of 1999 and are still friends to this day.  We don't talk as much but this year she wished me happy birthday and i did her too and i don't think i've ever written about her.  We went through a lot.  For how long we've known each other i don't think we've even ever had a fight over anything ever.  I know i posted later than i wanted but i did it.