I guess to fully appreciate the dynamics of our friendship, I have to back it up all the way to Freshmen summer league basketball when we met. We started to hang out a lot after that during our sophomore year, and well, the rest is history. We were attached at the hip the rest of high school. I remember one time going to the gym on my own and having a kid from our school ask if Madison was ok because he had never seen one of us without the other. Yep, that sums it up.
Now why is it that we spent so much time together? Well there are too many reasons to list, but here is a recap of just a few of the things that make us great...
We brake the snow-tubing lift by having fat snow ball fights,
We drive through the school quad and do donuts...and even though everyone is peeing their pants in the back of my car the two of us are cracking up,
We attempt to buy 9 football fields worth of zebra print fabric to make little togas and then we proceed to have a dance party while wearing them in the middle of the street,
We spent our Friday nights being rock climbing junkies, having epic battles on the ropes, and going to Mel's Diner instead of partying,
We were by far the coolest kids at Sports-a-Rama, despite what the Hamby's thought,
We dressed in rebellious fashions and were denied permission to enter the Mormon dances,
We have minor panic attacks at senior ball when we think the $600 lime green dress (which was borrowed) has been ruined,
We dress like in the worst Flintstones outfits and take awkward pictures at Sadies and then everyone makes fun of how weird my toes look in the picture,
We ditch school (just about every single day our senior year actually) and go to the lake all day and then make perfect last minute costumes for Quad dance. Which we owned. Just like all of the other dances,
We don't have cool plans for spring break, so we get attacked by bats in empty barns, go "camping" on the tramp in my back yard, and then get ambushed in the middle of the night by Anthony and his friends,
We looked nice at the start of dances, but then not so hot afterwards due to the amount of sweat we accumulated while dancing harder than everyone out on the flo,
We party like rock stars at Senior Picnic even though the weather was awful,
We dominate Powder puff. Literally. If I remember correctly we had a touchdown, two interceptions, and a million pulled flags between the two of us (ok and Alexis was real good too),
We are the only ones to get pumped up about Mormon Church sports and dress up for the occasion. Then crush like always,
We do lip sync to "Get Low" and create the sickest dance known to man (if only others could have executed it the way we did),
We dress up as ninjas for no apparent reason and then terrorize the town,
We go to all of the football games and then I get blamed for awkward gestures Madison does to unsuspecting guests as they walk past us,
And we got through high school in one piece without even getting arrested...except for that one time...when we uhhh...well that's not important anymore.
What is important is that we had a ridiculous amount of fun and learned a lot in the process, like:
1. Don't play sardines with the Hamby's because scary men will hunt you down and chase you with baseball bats.
2. Don't blame your poor attendance at school on Sitterud because you get in even more trouble.
3. You probably shouldn't go "vandalize neighborhoods" at ten o'clock at night because you will for sure get caught.
4. Don't get caught trying to pull pranks in the boys bathroom...it gets awk real quick when a boy walks in.
5. Don't race each other to team dinners because people call the po-lice and you have to hide out because I drive a bright yellow car.
6. Camping out in vacant barns isn't always the best idea. Especially when there are all sorts of little critters inside of it.
7. Rockstars before dances are a must.
8. Check which theater your movie is playing at so you don't have to walk 10 miles to make it to the right one.
9. Noah's bagels is the perfect way to start off your day when you are skipping school...even if it is for the 5th time that week.
10. Nothing gets you more pumped up then a little "Tell Me When To Go" whether it is at a dance or just in one of the many car dance parties we had.
Happy 20th birthday, Madizzle. Please don't stop the music.
