(...peter parker, eat your heart out)
i have this awesome friend named peter parker, or peter for short*. peter and i have been friends for years, really, and we met a while back at church, doing... come to think of it, i know we met through church, but don't know actually how we met...
anyway, peter and i hang out very, very infrequently, but when we do, it's the whole idea that time never passes and we pick up right where we left off. it's great, really, because i'm super busy, he's pretty busy (although he won't tell you that), and getting together on our schedules and across a 25 mile drive takes a little more planning than i am comfortable with.
this evening, peter and i got together at a frozen yogurt shop in parker, and tried, desperately, to focus on our conversation. which proved extremely difficult considering the following: a) it's the only frozen yogurt shop in parker, and it was a friday night, and it was packed; b) parker is suburbia, so it wasn't packed with the hipster twosomes or girlfriend trios that the denver shops are packed with- no, it was packed with families with lots of children. c) also, because it's suburbia, these children are involved in things like school plays and soccer games and lots of things that involve either costume, extreme makeup, and/or loud groups of friends. d) because it's small town parker, part of my stepfamily was there, so we had to stop and say hi.
that said, we got through quite a bit of catch up before we decided we couldn't really stay at 'gotcha yogurt' any longer. we meandered, like almost all late-night parkerites with nothing to do, over to the local 24 hour walmart. i had to get weird things, like bottled water for church, eyebrow wax, and possibly dog treats. we looked through every aisle, including the easter candy aisle (which i drooled over and ended up buying for my sugar-fast end, coming up on easter) and a five-dollar copy of a great, old luke perry movie: 8 seconds.
my favorite part of the night was the toy aisles, where we found a recordable voice ken-doll, swap-able barbie heads (ewwww), and these singing dolls that harmonized with each other and had these little scrunchie things for mouths. it was a blast. we also found the super hero masks (above), which of course, we had to try on.
i love friends that stay friends no matter time, and distance between meet ups. these are true friends, and i have quite a great handful of them, if you ask me.
that said, we got through quite a bit of catch up before we decided we couldn't really stay at 'gotcha yogurt' any longer. we meandered, like almost all late-night parkerites with nothing to do, over to the local 24 hour walmart. i had to get weird things, like bottled water for church, eyebrow wax, and possibly dog treats. we looked through every aisle, including the easter candy aisle (which i drooled over and ended up buying for my sugar-fast end, coming up on easter) and a five-dollar copy of a great, old luke perry movie: 8 seconds.
my favorite part of the night was the toy aisles, where we found a recordable voice ken-doll, swap-able barbie heads (ewwww), and these singing dolls that harmonized with each other and had these little scrunchie things for mouths. it was a blast. we also found the super hero masks (above), which of course, we had to try on.
i love friends that stay friends no matter time, and distance between meet ups. these are true friends, and i have quite a great handful of them, if you ask me.
*names have been changed to protect the lives of the innocent.
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