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SandiLL
August 21, 2008

My Best Friend

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My best friend Shannon and I (finally we have a great photo of the two of us)...Wanted to do a lo of how much she means to me. Everyone needs a bf like her! So there is hidden journaling under the photo that reads: If someone would have told me that I would be sitting next to someone that would change my life when I walked into my first grad class at OU, I never would have believed them. I am a creature of habit and someone who is terribly shy and a bit self-conscious in new settings (those people who know me would never get that). I sit in the same place I staff meetings, lunch, gym classes and often at family get-togethers. My first masters class was not much different—I chose a spot about 3 or 4 seats from the front and not to far from the door and stayed in that seat in each class for the whole semester. I sat in a similar spot in my second class that day as well. Little did I know that Shannon did the same thing. So there we went along for a few months until it became time to get into groups for the class project…I chose to work with those closest to me, which included one Shannon Moscovic. As we chatted, I found out she taught in the same district that I did, just at a different school. From then on we would chat before class and worked together on a few projects in our class together. I asked if she would be in my next class and she was. All year long we had classes together on Monday nights and we scheduled to have our next year's classes together. By then we had gotten together for a few things and I finally met her husband Derek and her little boy Stone. We ended up having all of the rest of our grad classes together, completing an independent study together and walking in graduation together. That year we spent New Year's together and a girl there mentioned how it must be nice to have your best friend with you in classes and in the same district. I guess that is when I finally looked her and realized yes, this is my best friend. I would never have thought to find my best friend in grad school in my late 20's but there she was and still is. She gets me in a way my friends from growing up don't'. We are alike in many ways---we love to read, spend time shopping and sometimes scrapping, we'll golf but it's not our absolute favorite, and we love to teach and love our families. We are not alike in many ways too—she is very organized where I am not, she is a bit easier going about life than I am at times, and she can stick to a diet where I never can! But I would do anything for her and she would for me. She gets that I like to jump right in a try crazy things and will often go along with me. I love planning events and just drag her and the kids in to. I can not express how much I value her friendship and find her such a beautiful person both inside and out. I was so honored when she chose me to be her son's godmother and sometimes wish I had another one to give her the honor that she gave me. Looking back, I am so glad I am a creature of habit because that's how I met my best friend.


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