[Medusa]

I'm feeling so fucking joyful!

My oldest friend in the world is here visiting and we've been catching up and gabbing and snacking on healthy foods and piling up together in my bed and doing that thing where we put on lots of lotion, read magazines together, and listen to 80's music.
She's my best girl since we were 15 and having her here feels like my soul has it's twin back.

We got up this morning and I took her out for a giant pancake breakfast at one of her favorite nasty-good greasy spoons in town and the we proceeded to blast Tupac and roll all over town running errands and window shopping.

We hit the post office, the bank, the consignment shop, the weird antique mall, TJ Maxx, the car wash, the oil change place, the thrift store to drop off donations, and stopped for a Diet Coke treat on the way home.

She's so exhausted and happily snoring away in my bed and I am prepping some vittles for when she wakes up.

I feel such joy for getting to spend any time with her. The truth is that she has spent most of her life working for the government in various locations and we have gone years without seeing each other before. And the extra truth...the really painful one...is that she's sick and that brings up scary, painful shit I can't even stand to write down.

For now, there is joy. And that's good enough.