oh what a night!

40 really *is* the new 30!
Originally uploaded by RiseyP.

late september, back in sixty-three...

Ok, so maybe it was more like late august, and perhaps the year was sixty-five, but close enough!! it was the sixties fer chrissakes!

anyway, sometime 'round then, my bestest buddy dana was conceived. and i am so, so glad she was!!

she has made my life everso much more fun these last eight or so years, in a variety of ways:

• conspiring against our evil manager and soulless workmates while pretending we weren't friends
  
• outdoing one another in the quest for true tackiness at the flower market while planning my wedding
  
• tae-bo in the living room and runs in the park
  
• sunset barbecues on my deck in marin with juicy fruit and the pugaliciouses!
  
• repeated viewings and quotings of le grand lebowski
  
• commiserating as our respective marriages crumbled
  
• enjoying the killer view and competing 4th of july fireworks shows from our little rented house in dolores heights
  
• much drunkenness and even more good food
  
• refraining from killing each other over my beloved Martha Stewart laundry hamper
  
• seven glorious days at a villa on the amalfi coast of italy with signor cleek
  
• getting one another through breakups, makeups and movings-on

I love you, Thena!!