Where everybody knows your name

God has truly blessed me with amazing friends. And you know you have good friends when months or even years can go by without seeing them and when you finally sit down, it's as if nothing ever changed.

I was lucky enough to have the greatest job of my life right out of college. Granted, I wasn't making a fortune, but I got to travel all the time and work with three fabulous women. Shauna, my boss at the time, was only a couple of years older than me, but I learned so much from her about having high standards and holding people accountable.

Amy, Alisa and I used to travel together, laugh together, and sing Jimmy Buffett songs to the top of our lungs in the car on the way to eating lunch together nearly every day. In the three years that the three of us worked together, we formed a lasting friendship.

It's been eight years since I worked with those three, and although there are three new children since then (none of whom belong to me), so much is the same. I still talk to Alisa three or four times a week, but I don't talk to Shauna that often, and I haven't seen Amy in over two years.

Today we ate lunch at Italian Gardens, one of our old favorite lunch places. We all ordered exactly the same thing as we did eight years ago, and we talked about mostly the same stuff.

Sometimes you do want to go where everybody knows your name. Or at least the people who matter. Those who knew you when, loved you then, and love you now.

Girls... thanks for the fantastic day!

{There you go, Amy... your first shout-out on the 'Drivel.' If we hung out more often, I could talk about you more!}