Living Large

    I think today is Wednesday, in the month of March. Having just returned from a "Cougars Gone Wild, plus Emma!" girls weekend, I remain a little fuzzy. ( I think that is the new norm for sixties!)

The above picture is beautiful, we did not stay here!!
One of my room-mates from my youth turned 60! Jane Anders had a surprise, she did not know I was coming.
I was on the bed, in the dark, with my Emma ( my driver and helper) at the condo, when Worm (aka Jane) arrived and was told to put her stuff in the first bedroom. She came in and I said "Hello." The rest should have been put on You Tube, but we are old!! She turned up the light and put her glasses on, and grabbed her chest! ( we like to do that in the south!) Screaming and arms flying, falling into the wall, floor and bed, "Nurse, (that is me, in Jane talk) is that you?" "Oh God!!" " I think I am having a stroke!" " Is that you Emma!"  It was a wonderful surprise, and the party began.
   BA, Bird ( same person, Brooks Ann), Nancy ( who looks good for a cancer person! yes that was said!) and Michelle, ( a Tri-Delta friend of ours) and Emma( The condo Emma, as she is now called), Howard Jr.( Blountstown angel boy) and Jim Anders ( Diamond Jim, Jane's Brother) all there for Friday night dance off!!

                                         JANE

    some of the crew.

I feel so lucky to have been blessed with so many wonderful friends. We laughed until we pee-pee'd ourselves, spewed whatever was in our mouths on the floor! Dance and sang like we were auditioning for a show! Told stories on top of stories, and cried for our children who were gone.
  It was a late evening, and we slept like babies, to start again the next day.
  Anne Anders came to play on Saturday, Jane's sister, and was a star. She had us howling at the sunshine, with more stories, until we were weak from laughing.
 Lunches, pool time, drinks and dessert, and an early evening for us ladies.

After Bird told us about Howard Jrs. Tombstone, that still has me laughing.
How grand to realize after all these years, we are still the same. Familiar with each other, in an intimate way of true friends for life. The warmth, affection, the love, oozed from our pores, with a wine perfume!
  We are sure Emma will be forever changed by her experience with My Girls!! We are something else, Miss Emma, I hope you learn how important friends have been to your mom.
      Before leaving, with tears in our eyes, we hugged the life out of each other, and promised to give each other a kidney, if needed and to not make the next visit so long in between.
    I love these people so much.
    We continue to live large!!
   PS...... How many people can say, that they have friends that are going to mermaid school in June!
   I do!!! Maybe I will come to Weeki Wachee Springs and see you in your mermaid tails!! Make us proud!
  Happy Birthday again Jane, love you to the moon and back.