I decided today that I miss someone...

I was thinking about an old friend I have named Bobbie Jo. I guess she isn't too old of a friend. But we went through sort of a rough patch for a while. We've talked now since, but we didn't talk for a year. It was really depressing. We became super close.

Here's how we met:

In 2006 I received a message on myspace from some random girl. Which basically said, "HI! You're awesome, you sound awesome. I am also awesome. Let's be friends please, please, please. I like you!" But it didn't actually say that...it was longer and more descriptive with reasons. But I don't feel like clicking around buggy myspace looking for it.

Anyway, I totally ignored this girl and continued doing my thing. She added me, I added her back. I noticed she was a photographer too.

At the time I was working at Sears and my assistant manager asked me if I knew anyone who would be interested in working during Christmas. I went home and messaged Bobbie. I told her she should come in and fill out an application since she was looking for a job. She did.

Her first day I met her face to face for the first time. I was told to go train her to do contact calls. So we went in the back and started calling people. We commented on how invasive it felt to call these people and try to make appointments.

Megan: I feel like I'm really bothering these people sometimes. But it is my job so I just do it.
Bobbie: Everyone is mean, they keep hanging up.
Megan: Lets just call and say "Hello my name is Satan from Sears Portrait Studio I was wondering if you'd like to bring your child in for a photo session."
We seemed to think that was really funny so we laughed. A lot. About everything.

Amanda came back and said, "Hey is this the first time you guys met?"
We said, "Yeah?"
Then she said, "Sounds like you've known each other for a while is all."

From that day forward we became basically inseparable.

In 2007 my boyfriend of 3 years broke up with me and in the same week another friend of mine died. I was having trouble keeping it together at work. Bobbie came in on her day off and kept me smiling. Listened to me whine for seriously 2 months. Until I got the hell over the whole ex thing and learned to bury the friend thing beneath the surface.

In Spring 2010 we got into a fight. I felt she was ignoring me and she stood me up for some plans. I was offended that she did not apologize for her actions. So I messaged her and when I received no response I deleted her on facebook. Because it looked to me as she was doing it all on purpose and I didn't want to see her update things and never respond to me.

I kept her number in my phone, because I hoped she would apologize one day. In Fall 2010 I ran into a classmate who knew her. So I texted her about it, on a whim. She responded. She told me about her life a bit and I said I was happy for her.

She more recently added me back on facebook and we've exchanged some messages. I told her I missed her a lot and she was one of my closest friends.

I think not talking to her for a while was one of the dumbest things I've ever done. I have had tons of fun with her and I'm sad that I missed out on our friendship for that long.

2007 or 2008 on Bob's birthday.