Did You Know...

That there are multiple months known as Friendship Month? Apparently International Friendship Month is in February. But if you are not in the business of being worldly, then you can wait until November and celebrate National Friendship Month instead. If you choose to be strictly ethnocentric and you are German American, you could even celebrate German American Friendship Month in October...but you also have to be from Michigan. Wow, that is very specific. National Women's Friendship Month is in September. If you don't have enough time to devote an entire month to celebrating your friends, then you could just say "you're awesome!" on August 1st (3 days before my birthday and just a fabulous month in general) which is National Friendship Day.

Unfortunately for me, It is not February (guess I missed the boat on that one...) Clearly it is not November or September (Yay Spring!!!!!!!!) And happily, I don't live in Michigan so that's out too. So today I have decided is "Joy's Friendship Day." With all of these 'official this' and 'national thats,' it doesn't seem hard to make a day into a special one, so "Joy's Friendship Day" it is! (Side Note: Can you tell I have no idea what the difference is between " and this ' is yet? If anyone would like to enlighten me, please do so. Oh super-smart-English-person-extraordinaire Kendra, I know you're reading this!)

Inspired by my continuous reading of the Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (you totally thought I had abandoned this month and forgotten about that book didn't you??) I realized that I am not nearly as grateful for the things in my life as I should be. However, there is one thing that I am always eternally grateful for and those are my friends. Many of them (especially my college friends :( ) I don't talk to nearly enough as I should but I always know there are there and I can just pick up where we left off at any given moment. Some, who live close by, I don't see nearly enough. And as for everyone else...well, I apologize for my incessant over-analyzation and paranoia of everything relationships and boy(s). Seriously, I am like a 15 year old girl. It's pathetic. Anyway, each of you have your own wonderful qualities and I am sure I don't tell you all enough how much you mean to me and how much I appreciate all of your support--especially throughout this last year. So here it is: Thank you. I am so very grateful for all of your late-night talks, impromptu drinks, reassuring words, much needed distractions, general hilarities and of course, all attempts to keep me from having a meltdown at any given moment. I do hope that I am able to show you how much you all mean to me from time to time (you know, by baking a pie or forcing you to come over for brunch or something,) but if not, thanks again, I love you all!