I am blessed

I have titled this entry this way as I do believe I am truly blessed. I have three girlfriends whom I have known for so long, that even my moving to another country has not dimmed our friendship. I have picked the last daffodils from our garden wall just for you. When I went back to Australia at Christmas; it was like I had never been away.

So here is the list of requirements to be included in the count of Best Buds; the floral variety of course ladies.

You can count yourself lucky Woo, I don't have enough dirt on you!

Woo

* You have known me since I was twenty-two

* You have to love cats

* You have to love champagne as much as I do

* You have to understand the true trauma of watching 'The White Balloon'

* You have to always be up for a laugh

* You must be as truly amazed at the age of that woman at Colin's 50th Birthday as I was!

* You must have started my obsessive relationship with Panda Pearls - you very naughty girl

* You must be a good listener

* You must make me smile

* You must have an unbelievable amount of fridge magnets - really you should get that looked at

* You must have smuggled trees across state borders in your husband's golf bag

* You must name you cars - I miss Doris

* You must be my 'movie buddy', even the arty stuff

* You must be one of the most interesting people I know

* You must understand what it is to move away from all you love because you crave something different

* I must trust you with the lives of my children although I would be in fear of them trashing your house!

* I must miss you every day

* I must love you like family

The Big Woober

* You have to have known me since I was thirteen years old
* You have to have sausage toes
* You have to have dyed you hair so many times in high school it was in danger of falling out
* You have to be a woober and know what that means
* You have to have a whole relationship with cheese I fail to understand
* You have to be working your way through the alphabet of Andrew’s until Andrew M stopped you in your tracks
* You have to have vomited on my camera, although why it was in the bucket in the first place is still a mystery to me
* You have bought an orange Passat and let it sit in your parent's driveway until they tell you to get rid of it and, most importantly, never actually drive it
* You have to eat Milo in the cupboard with a spoon straight from the tin, until your kids busted you
* You have to love champagne as much as I do
* Your Mum has to make the best Garlic Potatoes on the planet
* You have to have two brothers
* You have to make coffee that will put hairs on your chest
* You have to have caught your son’s vomit in your hands in the middle of Coles food store and then realised ‘What the hell am I going to do with a hand full on vomit?’ and dropped it on the floor – Clean up isle four, clean up isle four
* You have to always know what to say to make me feel better
* You have to have sticky taped your nose to your head – I have the photographic evidence
* I must have been the stockingless bridesmaid at your wedding and you didn’t mind
* I must trust you with the lives of my children
* I must miss you every day
* I must love you like family

The Dangerous Scorpio Woman

* You have to have known me since I was twelve years old
* You favourite colour is yellow
* You have to understand how hilarious the ‘Cheese of Turin’ really is
* You have to be a good listener
* You have to drink Pepsi Max until you are in danger of your teeth disappearing from acid erosion
* You have to love wine as much as me (I’m sounding like a bit of an alcoholic here aren’t I. All these alcohol loving friends)
* You have to have one sister and two brothers
* You have to cry when you laugh too much
* You have to always know what to say to make me feel better
* You have to have done tequila slammers for the first time with me
* You have to have attended too many Uni Balls, when we both started the evening looking fabulous, but ending up a little less fabulous by the night’s end
* You have to have helped me put frozen sausages in my husband’s underpants (before he was my husband I may add)
* You must understand the secret language of ‘gigglish’
* I must have read poetry at your wedding
* You must have been arrested by juvenile aid with me on the night of our school formal (luckily for us the Kalhua was unopened!)
* You must be a dangerous Scorpio woman and my steadfast protector - thankyou
* You must collect Disney movies, just like me; Belle’s yellow dress rocks, of course!
* I must trust you with the lives of my children
* I must miss you every day
* I must love you like family

I think about you all the time. I miss you all so much. I'll see you soon.

Love from Me

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