i'm glad!

i'm glad i have such good friends who can cheer me up after such a godawful shitty night, who love me lots, who want the best for me, who look after me, who don't underestimate me, who are brilliant and beautiful and exciting people. there is a stereotype of enumclaw people that i've bought into pretty intensely before, about how they're judging redneck hicks. it's not true. i know some who are, but those who i choose to surround myself with are amazing people. they don't care about where i'm from or about what i've done, just about who i am and how i choose to express that.
thanks guys. i'm still trying to get a photo that describes our relationships.
and, of course, there's colleen, and the relationship we've managed to keep up from other sides of the country for how many years? 4 years now?

then there's reland, who of course has been here for 12-14 years, we don't remember.

dude frick. i love it.