Not just an ordinary day... ohh noo it isn't!

Today may seem like an ordinary day…. But it isn’t because today in fact is the day one of the most brilliant people I know was born

The girl in the blue that’s Glenna (she’s brilliant too) but see that girl in the pink…. Yeah that’s Carla

She is my friend

No, scratch that….she is more than my friend she is my soul sister

I met her when we were nannying in New York back in the 90’s.

Carla has the charm of a southern bell and the mouth of a sailor. She loves interior design and is an amazing artist and has a food storage that should be cataloged and given it’s own show on TLC. She home schools and takes photographs and writes and is a closet foodie and sometimes when we go to Wal-Mart when we are hanging out she will wear summer shorts and winter boots and not bat an eye when I wear my pajamas I been lounging in and no bra.

We can sit in silence and watch reruns on the DVR… and we can talk till we are both hoarse.

When you go to a movie with her she will bite you and hit you and dig her nails into you during a suspenseful part and then after it is all said and done she will sit with you in the theatre and review it with you piece by piece like Siskel and Ebert and not care that everyone is gone and they are cleaning up around you.

If she is talking she is impossible to interrupt and if she has a thought she will move heaven and earth to be heard…

When we go to a new restaurant it takes her approximately an hour and a half to peruse the menu and ask a million questions before deciding and then while she eats she will give you a play by play of the entire meal from a taste buds perspective all the way down to how it is digesting.

She does not merely have a conversation with you… she interrogates… she probes… she probes more than even I probe and I am pretty proby. She likes to think and pick things apart and dissect the how’s and why’s of what a person does…

She is tenacious and does not give up easily especially on those she loves and cares about

When I broke the news to the nannies that I kissed a girl and I liked it…. She snuck upstairs to the door when I was leaving to take a minute to get me alone and see how I was doing after sharing such a big thing

And when I moved without telling her she got mad at me and said she was disappointed because she thought our friendship was stronger than that

And when I said I was a putz she forgave me but not without discussing it first

She feeds my Twilight addiction…and is my go to girl for when the movies are released

She is opinionated

And brilliant

And kind

And beautiful

And if I go seven days without seeing her I start to itch

I adore her in every single way and she makes me laugh… like the kind of laugh that makes you double over and start crying

She is honest

And authentic

And I know we are all grown up now but when I am with her I feel like that 20 something nanny again and just let go and have fun

Today I am thanking the lucky stars she was born

Happy Birthday my friend….you are a beautiful soul and I adore the heck out of you…