Happy 35th Birthday to my NO-Jules!

You know, as an adult, I hate throwing around the term "best friend" too loosely. In fact, I rarely use the term. I have a handful of "best friends" from different stages in my life that will always be considered a best friend, even though we may not see each other all that often. But today, I am going to use the term and say Happy Birthday to one of my dearest and BESTEST friends ever, Julie.

Julie and I met Fall 1991 as Freshman at the University in our Writing 121 class. Our professor instructed us to pair up for our next writing assignment. Julie and I saw each other, kind of shrugged our shoulders and said to each other, "Wanna be partners??" That was the beginning of quite the friendship. We became inseparable! By Winter term, she had moved into the same dorm as me, and by Spring term, we were roommates. We had way way way way WAY too much fun! We were obnoxious, immature, crazy dorks. But we were happy and we loved life! Our dorm mates would see one of us on campus without the other and ask where our sidekick was. We ate every meal together in the cafeteria. We enrolled in many of the same classes. We had crushes on the same guys. (and we were convinced, as invisible as we may have been to these guys, that they "loved" us back!)

Jules, I am going to go list as many memories from our years together there that I can remember. Please, I know you can do it, leave a comment reminding me of the ones I neglect to add.

I love you and hope you have a FABULOUS 35th Birthday! You are such a treasure to me.

• Y-Knotz!


• Dave Harkin


• Jerome Kersey - Loving him. Chasing him in his car. Meeting him at Target.


• Go Blazers!


• Rip City Rhapsody


• Making a headband for Cliff Robinson and actually delivering it to his house!


• Camping outside the World Trade Center - Downtown Portland for NBA Finals tickets against the Chicago Bulls for Game 4... which we WON!!!!


• Wearing all black as secret agent spies and spying on the hot R.A. then getting locked out of the dorm!!!


• Comparing "cheese"


• Not opening our dorm room door for whoever knocked because of the smell.


• Jeanine


• "Where are youuuuuu?????" "Heeeeere I aaaaam!!!!"


• E.J.


• Taco Bell runs


• Your trusty Justy


• Me driving your Justy on the freeway and the tire blowing out! Us spinning around all lanes, getting it (somehow) pushed off the freeway, all with NO traffic until we were off the road! FREAKY! (btw, that was on our way to the Blazers game with Susan, I think.)


• Catered dinners


• Pat Weed - us crying like babies saying goodbye to him. Whatever.


• Blaine reading a bedtime story to us.


• You trying to teach me how to do a cartwheel. Never did happen.


• Ogling at the boys playing bball on the court across from our dorm room.


• Hatted friend


• Man in Red


• "It's My Party and I'll Cry if I Want To" fiasco (We took that waaaay too seriously!) But it was our way to talk to Dave, at least. Aaaah....


• "WHERE'S MY SISTER??????????"


• Actually renting a honkin video camera and making that home video for Mike to send him on his mission. Boy, were we dorks.


• Poop cookies from your mom


• Valentines t-shirts from Gail's mom (remember, she used puff paints and did hearts all over with our names?) So not Gail.


• Loud laugh


• The diving bats at Hayward Field!!!


• Peeing our pants running from the diving bats at Hayward Field!!!


• Hippie Fest


• Education Class - Ellen - JASON!!!!!!


• Our makeovers that made me really really look like my mom. (No need to elaborate on this one, Jules.)


• Driving all the way to Bend to get you, then all the way to Klamath Falls for Amy's wedding- changing into our dresses in the street!!! (oh what the neighbors must've thought!!) - and getting to the ceremony in time to see them kiss! (She'll never know....)


• Rolling our eyes when Allison would say she's from "L.O." (((gag)))


• How we despised sororities and sorority girls


• Band geeks


• Meeting Bethie and loving her for her pure innocence!


• Simcha and the Humpty Dance


• Dyment and the boys downstairs


• Dan the Man (do you still keep in touch with him??)


• Arnie


• Eric's loser hook-ups


• Eric kissing Beth AND my sister!!!!!


• Endless all nighters "studying" (No wonder I didn't finish...)
• Magic Johnson looking at ME!
• "Can you see more because your eyes are so big?"
• You're Hawaiian. (yes, you are.)

You're the best and I miss you like crazy. Can't wait to see you.... Love, Your NO-Rae