Sweet Suzie

Today I'm missing my bestie. She lives in London these days, which means that whenever I listen to The National's High Voilet, I get a bit weepy come track 10:

You must be somewhere in London

 You must be loving your life in the rain.

Suzie and I have been mates for 14 years....that's half my lifetime. Starting next year, I'll be able to say 'most of my lifetime'. Mind. Blowing.

Side note, ever had that awkward moment when you start counting someone you met at 14 as a 'childhood friend'?  But it's true! Suze & I were just babies when we met. I suppose at 80 I'll chuckle as I read this very post and think how 28 was still a baby. Life, hey? It'll be the death of us all.

[caption id="attachment_182" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Me on left, Suzie next to me and the ragtag misfits following."][/caption]

 

So Suzie and I used to kick it together at Cleveland District State High School. Us and a ragtag bunch of other misfits with whom I'm now only connected via facebook. I'm not sure why Suzie and I kept in touch whilst my other friendships fell away.

That's a lie. I actually do know why. It's cause I used to be terrible at keeping in touch. You see Suzie is still in contact with loads of people and it is only by her wonderful efforts that our friendship managed to make it past high school and to the point where I realised how much my life (my life) would suck without her (thanks Avril). If not for Suzie keeping in touch, I would never have realised how important it is to stay in touch.

Suzie's an angel like that.

Famous angels never come through London

London gets the ones you never knew.

See this proves she's an angel! She wore a white dress to our Year 12 Formal...that's me on the far left with the blue dress and sexy 90's lipstick.

When I left school at 16 I saw it as an opportunity to break free and start fresh, I had no idea at that point in my life how much I actually needed people who knew me, who knew my story and loved me all the more for it. People with whom I shared history but also people who will always be there in the future. People like Suzie.

But don't just love Suzie because she knows my story, it's that I know hers. I know how wonderful she is despite the not so wonderful things that have befallen her.

 And yes, because of the stories we share.

 

 

I love the fact that all I have to say to crack Suzie up is "5 Fuse Bars for a Dollar!" I also love that I can say "5 Fuse Bars for a Dollar!" if she needs reminding that it always pays to be prepared. Especially so, if one wants to avoid trudging to a servo at 3am with a two-dollar budget between 4 people, each with a mean case of the munchies (did I mention I wasn't always a Christian...well let me tell you friend, this was far from the case at 15).

 

Incidently "5 Fuse Bars for a Dollar!" can also be used to illustrate that always, in our most deperate hour, provision will come.

 

I love that Suzie is my Co-Inventor for the most awesome game ever invented in the history of ever. That game my friend, is Harry Potter Hangman, whereby the challenger is limited only by their store of Harry Potter trivia and the opponent is limited only by their ablility to guess not just the word, but how the challenger would have spelt that dang word!

 

On that note, how DOES one spell Alohomra....ahlorohama...oh forget it just use iTorch 4!

 

  

 I love that Suzie and I weren't always besties. I do. I actually love that part of our story includes not getting along all that well at the start. When God first threw us together Suzie was very tough and I was annoyingly insecure, we grated on each other a bit. I'm not sure when that stopped, who knows maybe in all that grating on each other we actually rubbed off on one another.

 

Side note, Suze, do you know that I truly belive it's God who decided we should be friends? I thank Him for that often.

 

I don't even think to make

I don't even think to make corrections

 

[caption id="attachment_185" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="This was taken the night Suze left on her big jet plane. I sang The Cure's Mint Car cause I was the 'Vanilla Smile' and she the 'Gorgeous Strawberry Kiss'. Sadly I couldn't get the tune right so Suze just stared at me blankly. Love you always babe."][/caption]

 

 J xxxo