Alex is engaged!
One of my best friends, Alex Smiley, just got engaged. And as with everything, I found out through facebook. I’m so happy for her. And the guy is a really nice guy. I don’t think she reads this, but if you do, Congratulations!!!
Alex and I have been friends since she was in 2nd grade and I was in 3rd grade. Then she skipped a grade, mainly to skip my mom’s classroom and to be with me (haha). But don’t worry, she still got my mom as a teacher in middle school. She moved away in high school, but we stayed friends, calling each other and visiting each other on breaks from school. And when we were young, of course, we always talked about how we would grow up and go to the same college, and it would be so cool. Then as we got older, we realized that wouldn’t happen. And when we were making our college decisions, we didn’t tell each other where we were even looking. And then we called each other one day. And I said I was going to Georgetown, and she said, “You’re kidding me. Me too!” So we did go to the same college. And we’ve stayed friends, although sometimes it seems like we talked more when we were hours away from each other. But Alex is one of those girls who I know I will always be friends with, even if we aren’t as close as we once were. She’s one of the few friends I let myself cry in front of. And she even called a guy she liked a bad word when he made me cry in middle school. She’s the only person I ever got in trouble school-wise with. I still claim I wasn’t really doing anything wrong. I had forgotten to do some definitions for homework and remembered that morning before school. Her parents always brought her early, and my mom was a teacher so I was always there early. So I started copying her definitions, which is basically the same as looking them up in the dictionary. Then my mom came by, and told us how disappointed she was in us.
It was weird for me to think of Lindsey getting married to Chris, and I had only known her through high school and college. To think of Alex being married is going to be even weirder since we used to play with Barbies together. There are too many stories to recount here. And sometimes I feel like I’ve missed out on being involved in this part of her life because I’ve been in England the whole time she’s been dating this guy. But I guess that’s a sacrifice I made to come over here. And hopefully when I get home, I’ll get to know the guy better. I’m so happy for her, I even got teary-eyed while looking at their engagement pictures. I know, pretty bad.