life is too short to be cool.: for yessica.

about a week after i got married i moved to a new state and started at a new school. this was probably the most exciting/overwhelming/scary thing that i have ever done. i was so excited for all of these new experiences and had dreamed of them for years, but they ended up being a lot harder than i had originally anticipated. while i was loving being married and loved spending time with my husband, i was quickly realizing that i missed my friends. dallin still had all of his old friends, but i had moved away from all of my friends and therefore had none in this new place. i was, indeed, super lonely.

apparently when you get married, all of your friends think that it is weird to hang out with you, so they stop calling you and texting you and asking you to do things. all of my friends were in different states so i couldn't see them anyways, but all of dallin's friends went back to their bachelor lives and assumed dallin was happy living his boring married life- all of his friends, except for one: bretticus.

dallin and bret had been friends for a few years and had roomed together the previous semester and had gotten to be really close. about a week after we got married one of dallin and bret's other roommates got married in idaho. so we made the small trek up to idaho and somehow convinced bret to come with us. this shall forever be known as the car ride that i forced bret to be my friend; he really had no other options as i talked his ear off for four hours (bless his heart, he was so nice the whole time). after that trip we kept convincing bret to come over and hang out with us or go do something with us and before long it felt very strange to be doing something without bret there.

i love bret and think that he is a wondrous human, but a girl's gotta have her girlfriends, amirite? my elementary education classes were teeming with other girls that i probably could have been friends with, but walking up to one of them and introducing myself would have probably been worse than having my left leg cut off so that wasn't going to happen. i think dallin realized that i was starting to become very lonely and needed some friends that were girls, so he decided to remedy that (good boy, that dallin). so he introduced me to bret's little sister, jessica.

it should be noted that jessica and i have the same feelings towards strangers generally (would rather have our left legs cut off, etc.) so our friendship didn't skyrocket right away. no no, it took many times of jessica treating us to the cannon center before i invited her to rumbi, and then to the outlet malls (where we bought matching running hoodies!) before we became good friends.

and then she left me for the summer very quickly after and our friendship was quickly put on hold, only to resume the second she got back into provo. and now? jessica (yessica) is one of my favorite humans and best friends. she is oh so patient when shopping with me, will still drive with me even though she has seen the real horrors in it, will watch a chick flick with me at any time, is always game for trying a new restaurant, will listen to my rants and rant along with me, has the same weirdly strong love for bath and body works as i do, etc, ETC. you get it. she is the best of the humans.

she recently stumbled upon this weirdo blog and was like "what the heck, you talked about your other friends and not us??" ("us" being her, bret and bret's fiance, really our only three friends as a married couple) and she is right. i love these humans more than 99% of the other people i have talked about on here, and they deserve to be talked about! so here i am, talking about it.