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November 9, 2004
Mother & Son
EFH & Dimsum; Brooklyn, NY
Yesterday, too achy to lie about and too stir crazy to remain in the apartment, I hobbled out to the wilds of southern Brooklyn to visit Dimsum and family.
EFH and I have been best friends since the ninth grade. It is so strange—yet oddly natural—to see her in the role of mother. I still see EFH as that fifteen year old with heavy black eyeliner, fishnet stockings, and Dr. Martin’s boots. I still see her as the best friend within whose room I found, while cleaning it the week before we left for college (another story in itself), a Cheeto from the very first sleepover we had had—four years prior. And I still call this friend by her high school nickname (of which only two people, Jay and myself ever referred to her by).
Yet EFH is married now and has made this wonderful little dumpling of a son. Watching them, I am awed. It is amazing how time passes, how life turns. Even more so, it is astounding how much change can occur in such a short period, yet at the same time, how things can remain very much the same.
Posted by callalillie at November 9, 2004 7:05 PM | Introspect
, La Familia
hmm, you should dig out a photo of her too.
and i think cheeto would be a good nickname. as would cheeze doodle.
Posted by: tien at November 9, 2004 8:03 AM
Enjoy it now! It gets alarming in another 15 years or so, this time business.
Posted by: Linus at November 9, 2004 12:47 PM
I agree. Time is so fleeting, and that's why it's so important, now more than ever, to get going on a good heroin habit. Those things ain't easy to kick(!), once one is ready to continue on with the five year forecast, so it's best to get going now. Then one can move on to getting married, buying a house, having a baby... regaling said baby with stories of puking behind the dumpster of an LA nightclub with a needle stuck between one's toes...
Posted by: matt at November 9, 2004 2:15 PM
cheeto is a good nickname. i never thought of that. i'm hoping she and her husband will warm up to my nickname for their son. i think dimsum is the greatest. he looks like a little dumpling.
Posted by: corie at November 10, 2004 8:18 AM
Damn, I wish I looked that good when Thomas and I came home from the hospital.
Posted by: Cynthia at November 10, 2004 12:21 PM
aw, that was 10 days later. i think she also dressed "up" a little bit because i was visiting.
Posted by: corie at November 10, 2004 12:32 PM
How did I miss this post? Does commenting at this point even matter?
Cute Kid EFH. Not cheezy at all.
I just realized something: 9 years have passed. How I wish things would just stop for a minute so I have a chance to process it all -- take the gains & accept the losses. It just goes too fast. How did all this happen without me ever noticing?
Posted by: Jason at November 13, 2004 5:47 PM
It goes by so fast...I think that we all fail to notice, as we are focusing on our own 9 years!
Posted by: corie at November 15, 2004 8:39 AM
