Meet my best friend!

Many memories I have in this one place with these same people. My best friend's house with her and her parents, her smelly dog, moody cat and personal school of fish. My best friend is very Christian, much like I am, and she has been the support beam for my spiritual growth since the fifth grade. However, that's pretty much where our simarities end. I am quite reserved, I keep most of my opinions to myself, ask very few questions, don't consider myself to be very beautiful, and would rather spend a hot summer day inside playing chess. She is very opinionated, is not afraid of rejection in the least, has become (in my opinion) the most beautiful woman inthe world, and loves to water ski, ride rollercoasters, ice skate and go for walks in the blistering sun. Psychotic, right? Explains all the freckles, for sure!

But because I moved around so much as a kid, and I kept current with her through the years, sometimes spending weeks at a time at her house, I consider her house Home. The style of her house looks like it stepped straight out of the seventies, with its wood beams, split-level entry with wooden steps, grey brick walls in the basement and unfinished pebbled floor, not to mention that her hippie parents (My second mom and dad) have dream catchers and taxodermy and natural looking rugs all over the place. The inside sort of looks like a log cabin.

Am I rambling?

Anyhow. Both me and her also have a thing for The Phantom of the Opera. We both love to sing along to the movie and soundtrack. For her senior year talent show, at her school (different from my school), she decided she wanted to sing the song "Think of Me" by herself. When she told me this, I was silent for a moment because... she wasn't all that great of a singer. But then she said, "Can you coach me for it?"

OF COURSE I COULD COACH HER!

I love singing, and I love helping others do it right. So every weekend for a couple of months, I was over at her house practicing with her, making sure she got every single note down. I can't count the number of times we watched the whole movie (okay, maybe it's around 10). For her talent show, she was dressed in a lovely blue dress, and her long brown hair was up in a fancy bun and she just looked unbelievably gorgeous that night, and her song? Went perfectly!

So why am I talking about a different song than the one I chose? Same movie, and I prefer the song that goes during the credits to all the other songs, possibly because it's more modern sounding, or possibly just because it's SO sad.