Making Time
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 at 1:46PM 
Sometimes I forget just how sweet life can be.
Simple pleasures or simple days can sometimes be all that's needed to make you feel full and complete.
I made a CD for a friend once full of songs about "perspective". Inside the cover I typed out the "All I Need" scene from the movie, The Jerk...
It's funny, you know it's not all he needs, or even anything that he needs, it's just his perspective at the moment. (He does need to pull his pants up though. :))
My friend, Ann, came over on Sunday and we made gourmet caramel apples. (Well, she made the apples. I just sat there with a glass of red wine, talking her ear off, occasionally drizzling some chocolate or handing her something...how sweet is that?)
I call this photo, Delicious Apple Sitting in the Driveway in the Rain with Messed up Cellophane...
For the past couple of years I've been lost in some sort of depression?, isolation?, I'm not sure what to call it. Anyway, I haven't really been living. I've just been going through the motions.
A lot of that (because of time) has been out of my control, but some of it, I'm starting to notice, is not. I need to make time for me. I need time to remember who I am and BE who I am...not just go through the motions. Having my friend over on Sunday was really something I needed.
Ann and I met in junior high school...32 years ago (check out the Farrah Fawcett bangs)! I'm so lucky to have a friend that knows me as well as she does, because when we do get together, it feels like no time has past, nothing has changed, and I'm just me.
We live about an hour away from each other now, and our lives are in different places. Her kids are in college and mine are still in elementary school (one, not yet), so we don't see each other very often, but I'm glad we finally did last weekend. It's all I really needed to feel full again.
Well, her visit and the delicious apples, but that's all I needed.
Well, her visit, the delicious apples, and this card that Macy made me...
Okay, I'll stop now. :)
Reader Comments (4)
oh kelly....i can.t tell you how much i needed this post today...right at this very minute it was "all i needed" ha! that scene is AWESOME. i had totally forgotten about that scene...now i want to go back and watch the entire movie. what a blessing to have a friend like that. i have a friend that lives almost 700 miles away from me, but we met in 7th grade and are still very close. when we are together it is also like time hasn.t past. i totally get what you are saying.
now i wish i had a gourmet apple to go eat!!!
hugs,
c
that apple looks amazing!!! and I am so glad you had some beautiful time with an "old" friend.
Dear sweet Kelly- I am so glad that you had a chance to spend some time with an old friend. Isn't it great to be able to just hang out and just be yourself! Plus you can always revert to being teens again and do all sorts of wacky stuff!! Love the hair BTW...it is soooo cute! Sometimes it is so easy to lose ourSELVES in the day to day...especially when you have kids (3!!)...but you will forge your path. YOU WILL.
thank you ever so much for all the sweet comments you have left on my blog lately. I will e-mail you soon re. all that has been going on here. xxx
yum! that apple looks so good right now! aren't close friends the best? and what a cute little homemade card. Hope all is well!