Real Friends

Proving it, bit by bit……

We just got back from the hospital about an hour and a half ago.  When we got home, I saw my friend Amie log on to the Yahoo Messenger.  So….I told her about OpenDiary.  I set my diary (one has to be careful not to type "dairy" instead of "diary") to public, so she can read some of it and see if she’d like to join.  After that, I glanced back through some other entries, and I realized that mostly, I talk about HOME life on here.

So this entry is for my real, honest-to-goodness friends.

There are not many of them left these days.  Amie, Connie, Stacy, Lola, Catherine, Jenniffer, and Chris Harper.

That’s about it!

Amie is the one who saved my life back in 2001.  When I overdosed one night, she was driving me around, talking and just "hanging", when my getting-loopy self said something like, "Just like when I took all those pills a while ago!"

She turned the car around, with my screaming at her the whole way, and took me to the hospital.  Had it not been for that, I would never have been alive to marry on the 10th of June, 2005.  I would not be a husband, father, and grandfather.  Amie is one person I always know I can turn to about ANY issue.  I can talk to her today or a year from now, and it will be the same as if we just hung up the phone a minute ago!  She has the most adorable little girl – MelMel.  She doesn’t want her daughter’s real name used online, so that’s how I’ll refer to her.  MelMel loves her Uncle Hermy, and the feeling is damn mutual!  Also, Amie took the wedding pictures that we already have.  MH also took some, but we haven’t received those yet.

Connie is friends with Amie, as well as My Mikey and me.  We are a small, but trusting, circle, and I cherish my crazy friend whom I call Conchita, mostly.  I USED to call her a few more unsavorly names in our childish, let’s act dumb days, but I’ve always loved the hell out of this spicy Mexican!!!!  Connie has a son named Robert, whom I call Rupert, and a daughter named Allison, whom I call Ally-Sunshine.  Let me tell you, those are some interesting kids!  I marvel that Ally runs towards dangerous places everywhere with no helmet or anything and never gets hurt.  Rupert is Sir Talks Too Much, but he’s a beautiful spirited kiddo, too.

Stacy is the one I usually refer to as my "best friend".  It is not meant to offend anyone, because none of my friends is any more important than the others.  Stacy and I have known each other since we were eight years old.  She is one unconventional person, I tell you!  She is also mother to my two godsons, Michael and James.  I always call them Pike and Jimmy-Jam.

Harpo, you may be familiar with.  I think he’s been mentioned in all our diaries here and there.  He and Jenn.  Whew, that combo will wear you smooth out!  Chris ALWAYS comes through when we need him, and he is one of the most pleasant people I know.  Jenn has her moments when I think, "Dumbass bitch", but I gotta admit, she’s addictive in small doses.  She’s flat-out DANGEROUS in large doses! LOL

Catherine is a girl I have known for about half my life.  She and I don’t talk too much these days, but we still have love and respect for each other.  We’re both happily married, at long last, too.  She has a son named Phill.  Now, that son of hers is a trip!  Phill loves his Uncle Hermy, too, and Uncle Hermy loves his Phill!  Little red-haired rascal.  He’s so adorable!  He’s probably also way more grown than I realize….don’t know when’s the last time I saw them.

Time goes by, doesn’t it?

I love my friends.  I love my family.  I love the friends we have on here, too!  Persona, Mads, Klevor, J Henry, Matteo al Monty, Tim, Brett, and (Un)happy, you all rock HARD!!!!!

Mrs. Forstmann, My Mikey, I love you forever times PI cubed plus one,

Your Jack