My best girlfriend is Eva. We met each other in junior high school and grew closer with every passing year. We’ve probably been friends now for about 27 or 28 years. Yikes!
We were good friends in junior high, but we didn’t get to that “best friends” place until we were in high school.
We grew up in a small town called Norco. Both of our parents moved out there to get away from some of the urban problems they were seeing creep into their suburban neighborhoods.
The kids we went to elementary school with were the kids we went to high school with. We still see many of our high school friends on a fairly regular basis. In addition to being home town to many of my favorite people, Norco was a special place to grow up in. There is a city ordinance that bans sidewalks in the town. There are only horse trails. (I once rode my pony through the McDonald’s drive thru.) Eva had a pony and a pony cart and we were able to get all around town long before we we old enough to drive.
When we were old enough to drive, I failed my driver’s test a couple times. I’m not sure which was more dangerous on the road… me, or Eva’s horrible jalopy cars. It seemed like she had a different car every month. All of them were horrible. One of them was a pinto (yeah. the kind of car that blew up when rear-ended.) This Pinto did not have the gas cap anymore. She solved the problem by stuffing the hole where the gas cap should be… with a sock. It was like a little fuse hanging out of the car. It’s a wonder we didn’t blow ourselves up. (Good times…)
We’ve gotten each other through high school boyfriends (bless her heart, she was my shoulder to cry on for years while I pined away for HH). We each were Maid of Honor in each other’s wedding(s). We were there for each other when we went through divorces. She is Devin’s Godmother. For several years we were on opposite coasts, which was tough, but that’s what phone calls are for.
The photos I have that are digital are just the tip of the photographic iceberg. The bulk of my photos are in boxes, unscanned. Please excuse some of these grainy oldies…
1990 – my bridal shower. Check out the amazing heights my bangs reach.
1996 – An amazing chocolate buffet. Yes…. We stopped and posed with the chocolate.
2002 – Fun to be the Aunty.
I can tell her anything, but chances are she knows what I’m going to say before I say it. We know pretty much everything there is to know about each other (and we still like the other person.) We share the same sense of humor and we both have the same set of core girlfriends that we went to high school with.
There are few people who know the “real” you. Few people who you can talk to for hours and not run out of things to say and fewer still – people you can be with and not have to say a word. Those people are rare and special. Those people should be cherished and those relationships should be nurtured – always.
I am not sure which one of us is Lucy and which one of us is Ethel, but we have gotten into I Love Lucy situations on a fairly regular basis. In future posts I will tell:
- The Shark Story
- The Westwood Story
- The Ice Cream and Amaretto Sour Story
There are many more tales I could tell, but these are the ones we re-tell the most. A few months ago she was visiting and we told Devin the Westwood Story to illustrate our point: No matter how sneaky you think you’re being…. how many bases you think you’ve covered…. your parents will still find out what you were doing!
We’re born into our families, but we choose our friends.
Oh I love this week’s FMM! What a great friend you have and what funny memories! We all need an “Eva” in our lives who know us so well (and still love us!). Thanks for sharing this great post!
-Christie
I would soooooo pose with chocolate!!!!!
A pony and a pony cart….hee hee That sounds like a lot of fun. I agree…old friends are the best!!!
Okay, after about half way through that post, I was frantically scanning down to the part where you tell us your bff is really that famous actress that plays on CSI:Miami. Because she looks JUST identical to her. I mean eerily identical. Is it her???
Can I steal her? Lol.. Great post, I love memories and making new ones.
You guys are ageless.
I’m jealous.
Plotting to steal the genie that’s been sleeping at the foot of your bed keeping you young.
Great post. I admire and envy those who can keep a friend throughout the ages.
She’s so lucky to have you. Love your story and she sounds like a friend who is like a sister from another mister to you. Thanks for sharing.
She’s a celebrity right?
Seriously? She looks familiar and while I’m loving your sweet tribute to a dear friend I’m suffering one of those senior moments that nearly cripples me.
QUICK! Email me your phone number so I can call you tonight at 3:00AM when it HITS me.
I’m off to Google Eva and get more confused.
Awww sounds like an awesome BFF! Fun to look at the pics from way back and see how much we’ve grown. I think we are totally blessed to have life-long friends like this!
Great post!
I love the stories about your and Eva!
I am loathe to use the term “my BF.” It seems to me that while it endears ONE person to myself, it alienates all others.
Besides – – – how would I decide between my friends which would receive the title.
So – – – I live with a circle of dear friends all “best” to me in their own ways.
I’m with Amber…that’s got to be Eva LaRue! If it’s not, she should become a celebrity impersonator! 🙂
Regardless of whether your bestie is famous or not, you two are both absolutely gorgeous and I can tell you’re blessed to have each other!
Happy FMM, V!
What a great friendship!! Happy FMM!! Thanks for sharing!!
The friends we grow up with are so special. Everyone needs a partner in crime!
What great stories! You both are so lucky to be in each other’s lives. And I do believe that your Eva is Miss Eva La Rue from CSI: Miami!
Happy FMM!
Great story…..yes I agree, we are born into our families but we choose our friends!
Happy FMM!
That intro comment cracks me up! 🙂
Happy FMM!
Jolanthe
Love the pictures! She sounds like an amazing friend and how lucky you both are to have each other! And hello, I saw the first pic and was dang, she looks so familiar…then scrolled down and was like ok, seriously isn’t that…lol
Happy FMM!
Awe what a great story!
Oh, that is a great post! And I so know who that is, she’s a famous one. : )
Macey
That’s wonderful! She sounds like an amazing friend. I can’t wait to hear the other stories!
Stopping by from FMM!
I love the pictures of you two through the years.
What a great friend! I have one like that too, although I wasn’t blessed enough to know her in high school. I can’t even imagine the trouble my bff and I could have gotten into as teenagers!
Happy FMM!
Wow you are so blessed to have had a friend like her for such a long time. True friends are an amazing gift.
MY BFF”S from grade school are no-more. You’re blessed to have had her in your life for this many years!
Your friend,
~S
Love the old pics, she’ll appreciate you for that! LOL
BTW….your title KILLED ME!!!!! BWAH!!!
Oh – what a great friend! Those car stories cracked me up. I can just imagine you tow driving around in that Pinto! I loved seeing the pictures of your two through the years. So sweet!
XOXO
Jen
Aww..I can’t wait to hear all the stories you & Eva share.
And everyone’s comments about who she is are crackin’ me up….I can now proudly say I have have “known” you long enough (and read your blog long enough) to know the answer to everyone’s question.
I am so enjoying this topic today!!
Happy Monday!
~Becca
Hello,
I came over to check you out today b/c I have noticed we share a lot of the same blogging friends. I loved reading about you and Eva, and she totally looks like the actress from CSI, I am assuming she is since I am not the only one who has mentioned it. 🙂
I look forward to getting to know you in the blog world.
You two are beautiful! Looks like a wonderful friendship. 🙂
-Ali (alibdubrow.blogspot.com)
Great story….and yep, that’s Eva La Rue. Ya’ll are lucky to have each other!
It’s so great to have a friend that you’ve had for that long…! And you’re both gorgeous…Your post was excellent..and it makes me smile!
Thanks for visiting my blog. I love your best friend stories. You are so right about best friends being someone you never run out of things to say to but you can also be quiet and it feels okay.
You are so very blessed to have your BFF!! Such an enduring friendship to treasure!
What a great tribute to your bestie! I drove a Pinto all through HS. Mine had a gas cap. But it had a mismatched door on the passenger side for which I did not have a key.
Thanks for bringing THAT back…
i loved that story.
🙂 I have a friend who has also been a friend through rough waters and smooth sailing. It warms my heart.
Hello V…
Girl, I just got home from my Texas trip Saturday night…I have so much catching up to do! Just wanted to come by to say thank you, once again, for joining in with Sunday Favorites…loved your son’s coconut homework post! Kids…you gotta love em’! Hehe!
I really enjoyed reading about you and your best friend Eva…what a blessing to have such a dear friend for so many years!!! The two of you look like you could be sisters…such beautiful women!!!
Have a great week, my friend!
Chari
Sounds like you two are quite the duo! The Lucy/Ethel moments sound hilarious and love the post title!
You took the words right out of my head…about true friends being able to talk hours and hours or be together and not say anything at all. They know the “real” you and still love you…I love that!
visiting from SITS..
Friends make life so easy and fun…
Umm uhoh…Well first let me say this: husbands as best friends are so overrated especially when there are baby mama’s, so good for you on choosing another BFF. (Writing that is my first reason I will never let my BFF husband read this…) 2nd reason and back to my UMM UHOH…Even though my first husband named our daughter, my keeper husband would have named her the same name because I NEVER stop hearing about how HOT NATALIA from CSI Miami is…He just always says “Thank God for TiVo…” (As an act of defiance and arguement that I AM JUST AS HOT YA OL’ REDNECK)My daughters’ name is spelled nYtalia. By the way, he gets to ramain my BFF because he tells me “yes baby, you are just as hot…”
Those are some serious bangs there. I think I had those in 1988. maybe they’ll make a comeback because I really liked them.
This was a great FMM prompt. It’s so cool to see everyones picutes and read the stories.
Love this and did anyone ever tell your friend she’s a dead wringer for this soap opera star turned CSI Miami star Eva Larue???? Is this her?
Fun post
What a lovely post! I love my best friends so!!
Dude? Your friend is Eva LaRue? I’ve seen interviews with her and she seems awesome.
Now, she sounds even better.
How neat that you have such a special relationship that has lasted over all these years. That is definitely something truly unique and rare.
I love reading your stories and adventures. I never had a core group of girlfriends that were a constant for me growing up, I had different friends at different times…but I will live my life vicariously through you!
That is so sweet.. I loved her on All My Children, she was so awesome as Maria.
Friends like that are once in a lifetime!!