Party like it's 1999.

So it's been ten years since I graduated from high school. That means that at our reunion, nearly every conversation began with something like, I saw on Facebook that you... It also meant that our slide show was made up entirely of grainy digital scans. Weird. That actually makes me feel older than seeing that most of the guys I hung out with now have receding hair lines. Some of them have lost all hope and shaved to bald, ya'll. Lost all hope. That's old.

I almost didn't go to the reunion. Literally, I decided at about 5 o'clock that evening, and that was that. I have no idea why I didn't want to go. I had a wonderful time, and got to see people I haven't seen in, well, ten years. Imagine that. And it was even great to get the chance to see the people I have seen more recently... like within the last five years or less. Time goes by so fast as an older person, five years just isn't even that long. And, yes, I called myself an old person. Not old, old, but older than I was. The reunion made that glaringly obvious.

I have a few very good friends that I still see regularly, but otherwise, this was a few hours of catching up on ten years, and realizing just how much has changed... for myself and for my fellow graduates. There are babies and marriages and engagements. Jobs gained. Jobs lost. Degrees earned. More degrees to go. I went to an extremely diverse high school, and it was really cool to find out where life has taken everyone. It was just great to be in the company of people who all knew each other when life was simpler. When the biggest decisions consisted of where to go for lunch, what to do for spring break, and whether or not to go to the football game. Actually, I'm not sure I ever missed a football game.

Anyway, it was a blast. And, what did Andrew think, you might ask? Well he had a blast too... he lived with a few of my friends from high school at one point (so they're his friends too), and he's also gotten to be great friends with a few husbands of my girl friends... so he had just as much fun as I did. It was, after all, an evening with adults, which is quite rare these days!

And, in case you were wondering, no I did not take a thousand pictures like you might have expected me to. In fact, I didn't take a single picture, but I managed to be in two that were taken with my camera, so here they are.

This first one is friends, Marissa, John, myself, and Kara... Kara whom I've known for a very long time, and was one of my closest high school buddies, especially during that awkward first year.
And in this one: Sarah, Renee, and myself. Sarah and I see each other when we can... we don't live too far apart, and she has two little ones too. We've been friends since middle school. Back when we were babies. Renee has been one of my very best friends forever (since we were somewhere around 12 years old, which I guess means middle school as well) (she's shown her face on this blog quite a few times I believe), and though she doesn't live as close as I'd like her to, we keep pretty good tabs on each other, and get together as often as physically possible. She also has a new baby boy. So we're just three blogging mamas now!
I'm so glad we went... what a great chance to catch up and laugh with old friends!