it's now official...

so at one point in college, i had these three best friends... we all loved canadian bacon and pineapple pizza... two of the girls were roommates in an apartment - and the other one of them lived with them during the summers... one was my accountability partner, one worked with me and we had tons of fun together, and the other lived down the hall from me in the dorm and we spent many a late night hanging out... so i loved these girls... we "decorated" my brother's car one night - which remains to be one of my fondest memories from college... the entire car FULL of crumpled up newspaper - one of the girls' parents saved newspapers for us for weeks, maybe months... and shoe polished the windows... it was lovely... then, there were several occasions where any number of us would sit around and laugh and laugh and laugh... good times, right???

so, there was this one time - we all went out to eat at mcalister's (yum - one of my favorite places - but it's only in the south)... all of us were single at the time (two had boyfriends, i think) - and we were talking about what we thought the time length would be for us to date, marry and have kids... for example, lee ann would date for 5 years (she had already been dating for 3 or 4 at the time), get engaged and then get married 9 months later... anyway - so we made these "predictions" about how and when all of this would take place... (i guess you probably already know where this is going...) - so lee ann dated joseph for 5 years (i think... about), got engaged and got married last december (where i got to be a cranberry-red dress wearing bridesmaid)... and patti dated corky for about a year, got engaged a couple of weeks ago and is getting married in june (where i get to be a banana-yellow dress wearing bridesmaid)... and i just found out that kali, who has been dating nathan for a couple of years (or more, maybe) got engaged a couple of days ago and will be getting married sometime... we haven't really kept in touch all that well - i don't know if i'll even be invited to the wedding - but at least i don't have to wear some food-color bridesmaid dress again - the whole "always a bridesmaid, never a bride thing sucks...")

so, as i sat there in mcalister's that day - i never dreamed i would be the last one... never... i guess someone had to be the last one - but the reality hit home today in a squid in your face kind of way... and honestly, i wouldn't make different choices had i the choices to make over again... not a chance... i'd screw it up even more than i already have, i'm sure!!!