berit and i met our freshman year in college; we lived across the hall from each other at the all-girls dorm GSP. not sure what GSP stands for. . .but we liked to say it stood for "girls state prison". ha. . .so dramatic. i believe this photo is from freshman year. . .we look like we were 12!
our sophomore year, berit and i moved into our first off-campus apartment together. oh the fun times we had there. life was so easy and carefree then. this is a picture of us in that first apartment on the day we moved in. of course we had to have a papasan chair and ottoman from pier 1!
our junior year, berit moved back to kansas city and i moved in with new roommates, but our friendship continued. i even coerced berit to come along with me on a spontaneous trip to santa barbara. she is always up for an adventure!
berit and i share a love of music and we consumed about every live music event possible in our years at KU. here's a look at us all done up on the way to some concert or another. hair couffed and lips lined. . .check, check.
after i graduated from college in 1997, i was looking for a new adventure. berit had been living in portland, closer to where her parents had moved in seattle. she suggested i come check it out. . .so i did. here's a shot from our first portland apartment. . .back then i had a lot of long, extra bleach blonde hair.
shortly after i moved to portland, we outgrew the one bedroom apartment she was living in and found a cute little two bedroom cottage to move into. here we are on the front porch with berit's mom and a few friends. . . including one friend whom berit went on to marry.
portland is where i first met anne. i was working for a temp agency, getting placed in random administrative type jobs until i landed a permanent gig. the temp agency called me for a receptionist position at a pr agency. they had called anne too, whom i didn't know at the time, for the same position. but they called me first, so i got it. she got called in for another position that became available at the same agency. so we met on our first day of work. we were both the newbies so we ended up going to lunch together. the rest is history. . .we became quick friends and spent the next several years going to lunch together every day and happy hour nearly every night.
here's a shot of us in las vegas. . .during my dark haired years. they didn't last long. . .i'm a blonde at heart. and i've tried going dark a few times since, but i always revert back to the blonde pretty quickly.
one thing i love about anne is how direct and forth right she is. she's from the east coast and she tells it like it is. here's a great shot of anne. . .probably about to speak her mind.
anne moved to philly shortly i moved to LA. i miss her, but fortunately i get to see her at least once a year when i'm out on the east coast for work. or we plan a little adventure together.
i'm so excited for my girlfriends to visit! these two girls have been with me for most of the ups and downs of life and i love em. here's anne being a "snake" in front of the snake pit on melrose during my bachelorette party weekend in la and the three of us shopping on robertson after my bridal shower.
i spent yesterday preparing the guest rooms. we actually only have one official guestroom. the second room was adam's studio. . .turned my sewing/craft room and will eventually be a nursery. but i threw an air mattress covered with a feather bed, and i think it will do. i wanted to crawl in it!
we'll only be here for one night. . .then we are headed to palm springs. we rented a great house. . .
and we're going to a big, three-day music festival called coachella. anne and i attended the same festival in 2004 and it was no less than 104 degrees in the shade. here's us then, baking. . .
it's not supposed to be that hot this weekend. regardless, it'll be so much fun to reconnect with the girls. and i'm also pretty excited to see some of my favorite bands like. . .Muse, LCD Soundsystem, Pavement, Phoenix, Spoon, Vampire Weekend, Fever Ray, MGMT and Grizzly Bear. . .just to name a few.
and it also won't be too shabby to spend some time in the dessert, laying out by the pool and soaking in the hot tub with the girlfriends without a care in the world. . .just like old times.
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