The Beginning of a Dynamic Duo-the story of Lesley and Denise

It's hard to even know where to start with the story of our friendship.  It seems like yesterday but our friendship has been a work in progress for about 12 years now.  When you talk about two guys being best friends, you call it a "BRO-mance" and I don't know if their has been a word made for two women's friendship and I refuse to have it called a "HO-mance!"  so we will just use the term BFF.  Now, I know that as she is 32 years old and I am 34, BFF may sound a little immature.  But, as you read, you will come to find that we really fit the bill.  Infact, a mature friendship would only be the definition of our relationship if sarcasm were being used!  So, BFF it is!!  I really do feel like God sent her to be my best friend in the whole world and I wanted to share our journey.  Some of it will make you smile, some of it will make you cry, but for the most part, if you are anything like us, you will laugh so hard you come just short of peeing your pants!
It all started when I was working at the local hospital as a nurses aide.  She came in and applied for the job.  I remember seeing her outside the supervisor's door.  She was cute and kind of preppy looking and let's be honest, had a cute body.  I had already had one child and things just weren't what they used to be with my body so I instantly became jealous of her.  Apparently it showed, b/c a few months after we got to know each other she revealed to me that when she first saw me, I looked mean...  Oops!  I told her that was because she looked skinny.
Most of the time, when you first meet someone you go through several days or weeks of formalities before you feel comfortable enough to share any type of intimate detail in your life.  Not Denise though.  After we had worked together for just a couple of days, we were already really enjoying each other, but were still trying to be polite to each other.  Let me rephrase that-I was trying to be polite!  But the time for formalities for Denise were gone at that point when I asked her during our 15 minute break if she would like some of the peanuts I had brought to work.  I expected a "no thanks" or "sure!"  That's completely NOT what I got! Her response to me, after knowing each other for two days was this "oh, that's ok.  The only nuts I like are David's when they slap me in the ass."  (It's ok...take a minute to pause, re read that last sentence and then laugh!  After 12 years of friendship, it's still one of my favorite stories.)  Now as you can imagine, my jaw hit the floor and I may have sucked all of the oxygen out of the room due to shock!  It was at that exact moment I realized Denise had no filter!  After the shock wore off, we both sat there and laughed so hard we cried.  And thus, a friendship was born!  That was the day we exchanged phone numbers and began our daily regimen of calling each other and to this day, we still talk almost everyday! 

I am really excited to continue sharing the story of our friendship.  And, if I can talk Denise into it, I may try to get her to add her two cents in every once in awhile as well!  My true hope is for everyone to read this and be able to say "I have a friend like that."  She is a true blessing in my life and I don't know what I would do without her!  I will try to get on here and add a story or two a week!  I am not going to try and trick you into believing that all of our stories will be sweet and clean.  She and I are both Christians that love the Lord with all of our hearts and nothing on Earth could change that, but we also talk together about things that are real and happening to each one of us and because life gets messy, so will this blog!