Friendly Faces

15 months ago when we moved to Dallas we knew more people then we could count that lived in the DFW metroplex area. Problem was, everything is so far apart here that we never really saw anyone, besides Mary and Jason of course. In the short 15 months I have grown comfortable with seeing the same faces in the different places we go.

A random select few people I am going to miss...

I'm going to miss Chi, the Vietnamese woman that cuts my hair and always tells me I need to start having babies now. (Does she think I'm getting old and need to rush it?? lol)

The woman at target who when I order pictures and sees the last name always tells me that she went to school with a Pate but he pronounced it "Pay-tee"

I'll miss my deli guy, Jerry, who all he has to do is see my face, and he knows exactly what I want, how much I want and how I want it cut. Such a simple thing, but makes my life just a little bit easier. He doesn't know my name, but I'm sure in referring to me my name is "Pound and a half of Arostica"

The rotating faces at Starbucks, I swear there are new workers there bi-monthly. But they quickly get to know what it is I want.

Then there is the gym...ooo the gym. So many people I'm going to miss in there, some have become good friends, others have become comfortable familiar faces that we never speak more then 3 words to at a time.

Jeff who is a HUGE guy. Practices Martial Arts and has some huge guns (not the shooting kind, the muscle kind) but always tells us something about us being in the gym, like our babies are going to be born with dumbbells in their hands, or we are going to lift all the weight out of the equiptment.

Ed, the guy that always waves to us while he is on the stair machine when we walk in that has become our friend and swears that if he works out his abs, his stomach is going to get huge. He always makes us laugh about something and who has come to our rescue when we had car problems. Horray for those kind of friends!!


And then the 4 obvious people...

Chris and Fayne whom I've been spending at least an hour and a half with for the past 11 months and recently more like several hours a week......I've said it before, I'll say it again, they have become such a huge and important part of my life and introduced me to something that I have become incredibly passionate about...Tai Chi. They started as my mentors, but have become very good friends as well. I will feel their absence immediately...

and surprise surprise.....Can you guess the last two??

You got it....Mary and Jason. I don't even want to think about that yet...Without them, I'm not sure how our time in Dallas would have been. They were our support for those first LOOONG months, I can't even imagine if we had moved here without them. That would have made our transition here so much more difficult. It will be the first time in 3 years that we have lived in different cities. I know our friendship between the 4 of us is strong enough to survive time and distance though and I know without a doubt, they will be taking advantage of us being in Europe!

I'm not looking forward to our Dallas goodbyes, those are going to be the real ones. They wont be the, goodbye because you are leaving Dallas and we will still be here, or the goodbye we are going back to Dallas and will see you soon, it will be the goodbye because we are leaving and aren't coming back. Those are always the hardest for me.