FTSF..it started in the line at the grocery...

its friday which means its FINISH THE SENTENCE FRIDAY!!! (aka the one day of the week i actually glue myself to the chair long enough to write a blog post) this week's topic is "it started in the line at the grocery" this should be good!

it was an adventure in itself..we had made a 3 hr drive to the west virgina line to pick up some hermit crabs that needed a new home. It was a kinda last minute trip and i had grabbed the only clothes that were clean..a tank top, a sweatshirt and a pair of jeans. Figuring we wouldn't be running into anyone that we actually knew, i was safe. my bestie didn't look much better as she had picked me up after she had gotten off work..at the pet store down town. now, for normal people, a 6 hr round trip to pick up 3 little crabbies would be insane, but well, we're not normal and we do this kind of stupid thing all the time. after we met the young lady who we picked up the "kids" from, we decided to check out the walmart down there since we were bored anyway and not in a hell of a hurry. we grabbed some snacks for the drive home and while we were waiting in line (why the hell walmart has 20 checkouts and only ever has one open is beyond me) we were talking about an old friend from high school who i had been texting while we were on our little adventure. with a gleam in here eye, my bestie decides that we need to go surprise him. I hadn't seen him in 20 years even though we'd been talking on facebook for a couple years. I sent him a text asking him for the name of the town he was working in and like an idiot, he told me (he later told me he should've KNOWN we were up to something). Thank spongebob for google maps. a quick look on there told me we were within driving distance and we'd get there before he got off work. PERFECT! fired off a couple texts home to let the hubs know what we were up to (no, it didn't surprise him in the slightest) and off we went. I was playing over caffinated navigator and keeping up the texts as if nothing was going on. it was all fun and games til we got within, oh..a half hr of him and the goober decides to see where i'm at (stupid facebook location services). "you're WHERE?" um..don't worry about it was my response. "how long til you get here?"" um..how the hell am i supposed to know..i don't even know where we are, its dark and ohio is FLAT. it all looks the same. you're the genius who busted me..figure it out." somehow, we managed to get there in one piece despite HYSTERICAL laughter on our our parts. we even made it in to the store and clear to the back before he busted us because i was laughing so hard i couldn't see straight. I heard him coming up behind me and KNEW i was in trouble. all i heard was "busted" and then HE started laughing (no, i don't even know what we were laughing at). he politely asked us not to make too big of a mess in there til he got off work and then we'd go get something to eat. i have no idea how we managed to behave ourselves for an hour..oh wait..we followed him around and basically drove him crazy (he didn't say we couldn't annoy HIM for an hour) and then we went out for coffee and caught up on 20 years before we made the 100 mile drive home..at 1am! It was the second most fun thing my bestie and i have ever done (except for that 14 hr drive to the beach in october that we made with the hubs and all 4 kids..on no sleep) and it all started in the checkout line at a walmart in the middle of nowhere, somewhere near the wva line!

 **disclaimer** i was, am and always will be the girl who has more guy friends than girlfriends. this particular friend i've known most of my life and is a brother from another mother. time has a way of separating us and facebook has a way of bringing us back together. the fact that we went about 200 miles out of our way to surprise him for no real reason was absolutely not surprising to my husband. in fact, he would've been more surprised if we hadn't done it. I've been to hell and back in the last 5 months. going to see this friend was exactly what i needed to do and i'd do it again in a heartbeat.