let me start this by saying that from my day at work today, i cannot stand working in a small room with a loud breather. i think this is my new biggest pet peeve. loud breathing. stupidity man.

so, i just had to say goodbye to meredith. this is never anything easy. i love this girl. she is seriously my closest friend. she's amazing. she knows everything about me and still likes me and that in and of itself is phenominal. we've laughed... a lot. cried... a lot. and seriously made some of the best memories of my life. it's incredible. i have a few close friends and she's one of them.

this is my favorite recent story about meredith. she moved here something like 5 years ago and when she moved here she instantly had a big group of friends. it's just meredith, she can make friends anywhere. so, she has all these new friends but at church it somehow got started that two of her new friends were actually her cousins. this has gone on for years now. people still think their cousins and they just haven't had a reason to correct it. it was funny at first but how do you stop that after so long? so, cut to today. she met mike, her fiance at church as well and she's known him for years. he's also friends with her 'cousins.' so meredith and mike are at a restaurant the other day checking out catering options for the wedding and one of the 'cousins' works there. so, the manager says, 'family members get a bigger discount.' she turns to go get something from the back and meredith turns to mike and says, 'you know that we aren't really related, right?' and mike gets this look on his face like he was just told the world was flat and says, "what?!?" he had no idea they weren't related. turned into a huge laugh for me, mike is not so entertained.

here's another story that happened this morning. meredith is a workout queen and she and her roommate go to the gym at the ministry where she works every morning and the head guy was in the gym this morning. meredith always brings someones ipod to listen to while working out. so, she, her roommate and their high high up boss are in the gym and she's hooking up the ipod and it's already plugged in and she's trying to find something to listen to and all of a sudden it starts playing... did i mention she's a second grade teacher at world impact in a christian school in south central LA?... the first words out of the very very loud speakers were, "hey yo hey yo, it's an f***ing emergency. get the f*** off the premesis b****." and as she scrambles to get the ipod turned off and off the speakers her boss just laughs and she just stands there trying to find the words and just keeps repeating, "i swear it's not my ipod. i swear it's not!" this could only happen to meredith!

little bit of this... for now

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