new reminders

So today for lunch me and the work peeps went to In-N-Out. As I wrote that I thought that my friends might actually be jealous that I had a yummy AMERICAN food, specifically a CA favorite, but alas I am indeed the one who is jealous of them for doing something so outside of their comfort zone. I am in admiration of both of their courage. But I digress, so lunch...it was a beautiful day outside and as we were eating on the benches I glance over to a table across the way and lo and behold what do I see? A pretty but chubby twenty something year old girl wearing the exact "PRINCESS GRAD" t-shirt that Merle so graciously gave Vanessa for graduation and which cause Mom-Daughter WWIII!!!! What are the chances? I have never seen that shirt ever and BAM its right in front of me reminding me of my dear friend. Maybe she bought it at the garage sale we had when they moved? How odd would it have been if it was the SAME shirt!  And even worse she was a chubby girl.  Validating once again the princess theory.  I know that this blog might make my friend Vanessa a little pissed off about the whole shirt issue but I hope she can look around that and see that the meaning of this blog was just how I see SO MANY reminders everyday of my friends being away.  I am contemplating weather or not a break up of a relationship is harder than friends moving away, they have a lot of similarities.  Also at lunch my friend Tom got a drink, naturally, and after he took a sip he said "man that's good" and I asked him what he got and he said..."half lemonade half iced tea" I said oh an Arnold Palmer. He had never heard of that! Can you believe that! Well that reminded me of the time my friends and I were in Japango and we were having the conversation about asians trying to pronounce ANROND PARMEL!!! lol These reminders everyday of the both of them are too often to be coincidental. I think its the world telling me to go visit them in Korea right away! Oh yeah and In Your Shoes is on TV tonight.