Thursday, December 26, 2013

Corey Came to Town

This feels like a fake post. I don't really have a story for you. I'm just going to be blathering for a minute. You should probably go read something else. Or go back to bed and finish your Christmas-sugar-high coma. Or actually, instead of reading this post, you should spend your time leaving comments on it that sound like they're responding to something I said but that have absolutely nothing to do with anything I've ever written. This will mislead the people who come to Stranger and just read the comments. And shame on them for just reading the comments. I HAVE IMPORTANT THINGS TO SAY TOO.

Last weekend my friend Corey and her husband Michael came into town. Corey is my very best friend in the entire world. BESIDES YOU GUYS, OF COURSE.

Corey and I met at the very beginning of law school and became what the kids refer to as "frienemies" pretty quickly. We are both pretty opinionated and vocal and competitive. Two months after meeting her we experienced what our friends now refer to as the "finger pointing incident," which is still a sensitive topic between the two of us. This was where we got into a VERY heated argument in a study room at the law school and Corey (who denies this) pointed her finger at my face and I was said to have yelled, "AND GET YOUR FINGER OUT OF MY FACE!"


Even a couple of years after that happened, I used to steal her phone and text myself things like, "I'm sorry I pointed my finger in your face that one time. I was wrong and you were right. And you're a lot funnier than I am." Then I would show people the record of Corey owning up to her mistakes.

This usually did not end well for me.

Somehow, a few months after the Finger Pointing Incident we settled into a very close friendship that resembles siblings.

I hadn't seen Corey and Michael for two years. Daniel and I drove down and visited them in southern California over New Years in 2011. After that, life got crazy. And then I moved to another planet and time passed and we just didn't get to see each other anymore.

We used to Skype every week or two while I was in Palau. But Skype in Palau was unpredictable and inconsistent and usually came with, like, a 45 minute delay. Seriously. If someone died while you were Skyping with them in Palau, you wouldn't even know about it until way after you finished telling your story about Leotrix.

Corey and Michael were here for a wedding and could only stay for about 30 hours. Despite having not seen them in person for so long, it was as though no time had ever passed.



~It Just Gets Stranger

30 comments:

  1. Wow Eli your hair looks great today! And I can't believe that funny and embarrassing thing you did and just posted about! I definitely read this post; I'm dying with laughter *hahahaha*
    So... how's Trixy?

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  2. Eli, I am so saddened by your loss. I will never know what it feels like to lose a cat, all I can offer is my sympathy. May Trixy's name live on forever.

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  3. and i thought i was the only one whose cat locks her in the closet on a daily basis! glad i'm not alone.

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  4. Eli, you really shouldn't say things like that! If ARMA ever found out you would find yourself in the middle of a duel before you knew it! And "these masters are no mere fencers”. http://www.thehaca.com/

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  5. The Queen of Colors did what...... I thought that was only a dream I had, I'd better quit dreaming if my dreams are coming to fruition!

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  6. Well, you know that Eli is a Hottie McHotterson. Obvie! He's amazeballs! He's like the hottest hottie who ever hottied. He's the hottie times infinity PLUS another infinity. And his hair is totes adorbs. Totes McGotes! And that Corey should really get you a new Trixy, since she totes stole your first one. Totes McGotes.

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    1. haha that's my favorite commercial right now. I love hearing James Earl Jones call some guy a "hottie"

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    2. me, too. We were watching the Doctor Who marathon, and "Lizzie and Kim" showed up at least once an hour.

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  7. I can see in Corey's eyes that she's sorry.

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  8. I'm so sorry for your loss. Hang in there, champ.

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  9. Eli, I cannot believe it took you that far into adulthood to figure that out. I mean, I would say it was a complete parenting failure, but you had perfect parents. So, you must have willfully failed to learn it. I guess better late than never, but at what cost?

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  10. Wait, is THAT what LITERALLY twice up the barrel once down the side means???

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  11. Congratulations! I was sure you would have some type of allergic reaction by the fifth day, but you impressively pulled through, and look at where you are now! Can you imagine if you'd have let the quesadilla cook any longer? LOL, way to go champ.
    Ps. Can't believe the nuns did that AGAIN
    Pps. How much did your designer toe socks end up costing, after all that happened at New York Fashion week?

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  12. I have to admit, I'm on the police officer's side on this one.

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    1. I am as well. You were just out of line.

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  13. And THAT is why you never try to shave an "unconscious" cat. Or lick things like that.

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  14. I love those friendships, where you can just pick right back up where you left off, without any awkward getting reacquainted nonsense. I'm glad you got to visit, even if it was only for a little bit

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  15. oh that cathie mccann...telling it like it is. AGAIN! sure love her!

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  16. Seriously? You got naked in public AGAIN? That poor cat is surely scarred for life.

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  17. The french manicure was a little much but otherwise the makeover went really...... well.

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  18. Seriously, ain't nothin like freshly shaved legs, amirite???

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  19. What about Daniel? I thought HE was your best friend.

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  20. My sister in law bought me poo-pouri for Christmas...

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    1. I got that as a gag gift once... best gift I was ever given.

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    2. Seriously though! I love it! And it totally works!

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  21. So did she ever get the rest of the bullet out?

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  22. ELI!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT'S NOT WHAT THE GIVE A PENNY, TAKE A PENNY JAR IS FOR!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  23. I'm amazed that you were able to reassemble the Stormtrooper here! Good thing it's winter so you don't have to drive with the doors open.

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  24. Eli, you and I are truly kindred souls. I too have visited alternate worlds through the rips. Once I visited the world of Zehte, where the inhabitants were humanoids with only one small difference. Instead of growing another foot taller on their birthdays, they would stay short and grow another actual foot. You could tell their age just by counting the amount of shoes they would buy from the shoe store, which was a very huge conglomerate who practically ran the whole world, by the way. I felt very tall there, but it got very annoying since everybody treated me like I was a two year old and kept asking who my mommy and daddy are. Have you ever met the Spindrovpes? Not to sound like I am dropping names, but I can get you into one of their off-terra parties. They have the best copluheses in the seventeen ripples, even if they are snooty. ;-) -holly

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  25. Remember that time...that time that one thing happened and...lol...it was right there. And we were like, "woah dude look at that" at the same time and I was like "jinx" and you were like "NOOOOO...jinxed...crud". Then we went all the way over to that place...that place with the store. I think it had stuff in it that they sell to you. You remember that store right? In that place? Exactly! I knew you would. Anyway, and you grabbed that stuff off the shelf and you were like "I'm SO gonna buy this!", and I was like "no WAY are you gonna buy THAT. You're just crazy man." And you SO bought it! I went out of my mind.

    ...ah good times.

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