Happy Birthday Beautiful!

This is a special post for a special friend. I have been thinking about her loads since I moved here, and missing her company for so many reasons. But today is her birth day, and there are so many thing I remember about the first birthday I ever celebrated with her.

The funny thing, is that at the time, we were not really friends so much as two people thrown together by circumstance. So, I remember going to a pub for a darts match with her brother, and learning that it was her birthday. So I felt compelled (wanting to make a good third impression) to get a little card to mark the occasion. I did, and was then told that I had managed to spell her name wrong, one of the things that she most hated. Great start to a good relationship.

But it seems to have been, because over the weeks and months from that point onwards, we grew to be friends. She taught me darts and we would meet to drink and talk. She was the person that I got along well with, even when the circumstances that brought us together and made me want to impress her were gone. Instead, I wanted to impress her and keep her as a friend. And I am glad I did.

Her second birthday I remember because I was actually able to be there for it, which was special and was something that had been a distinct impossibility. I remember months in advance, buying a lovely top I thought she might like, only to learn that not only had she almost bought the same thing, but making her cry because I had to give her more than a month before her birthday because I was not sure if I would be back in time. Or, more likely as I believed at the time, that I would be back at all.

It has been hard, seeing milestones past from afar and wishing more than anything that I was able to be there. So, in my way, I want to celebrate a lovely person that I have had the luck to become good friends with.