Meet Wendy ______ Baldasaro. She doesn't have a middle name, and has always felt a little left out from the rest of us cool people who do. Feel free to give her one if you'd like, many people have over the years. I think about Wendy all the time, and thought what better way to honor her, and our friendship, then to write about her on my blog!
I love Wendy, and every time we hang out, I laugh so hard over our conversation that DRIPS with sarcasm and jokes. Wendy has been my long time friend, since we were in Kindergarten! In so many way, we are opposites. She is a seasoned dancer, and I am clearly not. I am musical, and she is not. Blond is she, red am I. And many others I could list. Wendy and I have a really unique friendship in that we can go for weeks, or even months without talking, and I know that I can call her anytime, or vice versa, and we can catch up like no time has passed at all! We can catch up on jobs, relationships, family, friends, and everything in between.
Some of the best childhood memories that I have, are with Wendy either at her house, or at mine. We used to spend hours, days, ... weeks choreographing Michael Jackson dances in her den. It was more like her teaching me how to move my body so I looked as though I wasn't a robot, and she effortlessly would dance to his music. We'd also take it a step further and dance to Wacko-Jacko in the pool and do sacronized swimming dances. Don't you wish you lived in her neighborhood to watch our routines?! Another favorite thing we'd do together was pretend that we were on QVC, or the Home Shopping Network, and we'd video tape ourselves selling household items such as baskets, brushes, TV remotes, and so on. We used to play Oregon Trail like it was going out of style, and every time we played, we always killed off the characters by giving them diarrhea or some horrible disease. But probably the thing I loved doing best with Wendy was sharing our 'awkward years' together. You all know when those years occurred...the years 11-15 when you look and feel awkward between braces, no make up, weird hair, weird bodies, and non-existing self-esteems. I LOVE looking through pictures of us looking 100% ridiculous...when really we though we were the hottest thing ever! We'd pose in front of the camera like we had nothing to hide.
Now that we're adults, we've shared a lot of fun, sad, hard, and scary life moments. I can always lean on Wendy to be there for me even though we've lived in different states for a number of years, on completely different schedules, and in different stages on life.
Wendy _____ Baldasaro, I love you girl!
