so today was our first open house for roommate's condo. the whole entire place is immaculately spotless and the cleanest i've ever seen it...well, since we first moved in almost 4 years ago. sheesh, i can't believe it's been 4 years already. it makes me really sad though, the thought of not having her as my roommate anymore.
my mom asked me the other day how we met, and i told her the story of fall rush week back during my junior year at cal poly. JC was a transfer student, and i approached her during info night and introduced myself and pronounced her name wrong. hahaha, bad start i guess. after she became a pledge, she came over to have lunch with GL, one of my roommates at the time, also a sorority sister. i kinda just joined them, cuz i was there and had nothing else planned. JC made us the best potstickers i had ever had (the secret is the cornstarch!). after JC left, GL and i were talking and i said "i don't think JC likes me. i think she thinks i'm really immature." even though we're the same age. so JC and i never really got to know each other. we just seemed so different... then, our senior year, we discovered our mutual love of karaoke. hehehe...
by our super senior year, we were spending lots of time together, and realizing we had a lot more in common than both of us had ever thought. just before graduation, i asked her if she wanted to be roommates. she had just gotten a job at arthur anderson in SF, and i was preparing for a job in SF as well, and i really wanted to live in the city. so we agreed to be roommates. we searched and searched and searched for affordable housing in a decent area of SF, and failed. at that time, in fall of 2000, a 2 bedroom apartment was easily over $2000. and we're not talking nob hill or the marina. we're talking the outer edges of the tenderloin and deep in the sunset, in some stank dwelling no one should call home. then, her parents came up with the idea of helping her buy a condo, cuz back then, the mortgage on a 2 bedroom condo was waaaaaay cheaper than rent (inconceivable, i know!)! so they found this place, and well, you probably don't care to read about the rest, so i'll spare you. :)
and now, almost exactly 4 years later, we're both packing up our things (and we had a LOT of "things" to pack, sheesh) and getting ready to enter the next phases of our lives. i'll be getting married in october, with her as my maid of honor, and she'll be getting married next april, with me as her maid of honor. it's funny how things work out with your friends. who knew she'd end up being one of the dearest friends i'll ever have?
my mom asked me the other day how we met, and i told her the story of fall rush week back during my junior year at cal poly. JC was a transfer student, and i approached her during info night and introduced myself and pronounced her name wrong. hahaha, bad start i guess. after she became a pledge, she came over to have lunch with GL, one of my roommates at the time, also a sorority sister. i kinda just joined them, cuz i was there and had nothing else planned. JC made us the best potstickers i had ever had (the secret is the cornstarch!). after JC left, GL and i were talking and i said "i don't think JC likes me. i think she thinks i'm really immature." even though we're the same age. so JC and i never really got to know each other. we just seemed so different... then, our senior year, we discovered our mutual love of karaoke. hehehe...
by our super senior year, we were spending lots of time together, and realizing we had a lot more in common than both of us had ever thought. just before graduation, i asked her if she wanted to be roommates. she had just gotten a job at arthur anderson in SF, and i was preparing for a job in SF as well, and i really wanted to live in the city. so we agreed to be roommates. we searched and searched and searched for affordable housing in a decent area of SF, and failed. at that time, in fall of 2000, a 2 bedroom apartment was easily over $2000. and we're not talking nob hill or the marina. we're talking the outer edges of the tenderloin and deep in the sunset, in some stank dwelling no one should call home. then, her parents came up with the idea of helping her buy a condo, cuz back then, the mortgage on a 2 bedroom condo was waaaaaay cheaper than rent (inconceivable, i know!)! so they found this place, and well, you probably don't care to read about the rest, so i'll spare you. :)
and now, almost exactly 4 years later, we're both packing up our things (and we had a LOT of "things" to pack, sheesh) and getting ready to enter the next phases of our lives. i'll be getting married in october, with her as my maid of honor, and she'll be getting married next april, with me as her maid of honor. it's funny how things work out with your friends. who knew she'd end up being one of the dearest friends i'll ever have?
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