Friends
They make me happy
This one can make me laugh until we both have tiny eyes
That’s a #100happydays moment for sure
People often tell my boyfriend he is living the dream – he gets to live with a professional cook, one who feeds people for a living.
‘aah, the wonders you must taste’ they sigh
‘i bet you eat like royalty’ they muse
‘all those experiments, in your face’ they lament
‘i wish it was me, can i come live with you?’ they ask
Well ha ha ha I say, the joke is on you
We eat a ridiculous number of packets of pop corn, a lot of niknaks, a fair amount of bread and many many meals from our local pub. Because after 8 hours on my feet cooking for others, and after we have spick and spanned the kitchen, there is NO WAY IN HELL i am making a mess again . Uh uh – not ever.
How many of you get home from work and then do it all again for fun? Maybe the two or three hookers I know, but no one else, let’s be honest.
Spreadsheets for fun before dinner – I think not.
(well, unless you are one of the hookers obviously)
Aaaaanyway, the point of all this rambling is that today I decided to make a breakfast of sorts. I do try on the weekend and muffins dirty only a few things so i can cope.
I made bacon and cheese, with cayenne pepper, muffins – and they were delicious
Served with a mint pickle I get from an Auntie in Stanger – they made me happy
It was with a surprising lack of mixed emotions that I heard of the birth of my dear friend’s baby. All I felt was joy and some oddly inappropriate pride.
And that in itself was amazing. This friend and I and the baby have come a long way.
I dislike babydaddy with a frightening passion. Friend and I ‘broke up’ after years of very close friendship cos babydaddy lied about me and she believed him. I was done and over and even moved away. Then I heard about the baby and got over myself.
She and I have been speaking and have repaired our friendship, with the single exclusion of not talking about him or their relationship. I will never forgive him for lying about me but I will suck it up cos I love her.
But the baby! Now that’s a whole different thing. When found out she was pregnant I was glad for her and angry with the universe in equal measure!
I didn’t get to have a baby and I did all the right things in life. She behaved badly (in my opinion) at the start of this relationship with babydady – and gets rewarded with a child. (I never said it was logical)
When I found out she had asked the Fire in a sweat lodge I was with her in, to replace her anger with a baby, I wept.
I felt like she had cheated by asking.
Luckily she and I always had had a friendship in which we could talk about this kind of thing – and did again. I was distressed beyond expectations that she had asked for a child. And she knew I would be. Which is why she told me – not to hurt me but to get it out and over and done with.
She understood my feelings of being cheated even if they made no sense whatsoever. I was unsure of how I would feel about the actual baby – the existence of it in their unit.
Not that I have any right to feel anything but who said emotions follow the rules?
Yesterday we spoke while she was in labour – she had to hang up when a monster contraction hit. All I felt was joy and excitement. And a tinge of sadness at being so far away – who knows when I will meet the blighter.
Then at 7am this morning she smsed me to say that after 28 hours of labour she had had to have a Caesar at 5am today.
All I felt was joy and gladness and that rush of a miracle that a perfect, whole, intact human being existed in her life and the world.
No envy
No jealousy
No coveting
Not even any begrudging sneer in the direction of babydaddy
Just happiness for my friend and her baby
Who knew I was that mature!