Things that last a long time....

I watched a lot of the 100,000 Pyramid game when I was younger. So here are the clues...

friendships, girlfriends, sorority pledge daughters, trident gum, cats, bank barns, last 10 lbs of body fat, a ball of yarn, squash.....

Yes! Things that last a long time!!!! $100,000!!!

These are my squash that I still need to eat. If you take the time to count them-- more than 40. Yikes!! Holy squash. I had better get a move on it. It is almost the end of March and I still have 40 squash left! I started in the neighborhood of 100 or so last October so clearly I don't need as many to last me through the winter. This year the squash were in the basement area and were it was around 40 degree temp all winter. I think this is the perfect temp for keep squash. When I would bring the squash or a pumpkin upstairs for more than a week, then the seeds inside the squash/pumpkin would start to sprout. Funny, no? Freaked me out the first time though...

So squash lasts a long time kept in the right temp.

Now how about friendships and girlfriends? Those can also last a long time. Tonight I had the pleasure of being in a southern state for business and was able to have dinner with a long time girlfriend. Now I will say that she and I have probably known each other for a total of 10 full days of running time throughout our lives. But the time we spend together is always quality time and we got to know each other very well over the years. Our fathers spent time in the Air Force together and hence they got together every so often throughout our lives and since we are only 3 months apart in age, we became friends very quickly. It was so wonderful to reconnect with her and spend an evening together. (I also told her I'd blog about her.... she is one of my readers who never posts a comment)

And then you may wonder what the heck the sorority pledge daughter listing in the things that last a long time was all about? Well, in my younger days I went to college. My freshman year of college I did try to join a sorority but the 'smart' sorority didn't put a bid out to me and I wanted to be in the 'smart' sorority. I did get chosen by the 'beautiful women' sorority but decided that even though I was beautiful, that sorority just didn't fit me. So freshman year I was on my own and doing my engineering thing. Sophomore year, I decided to try again for a sorority and I didn't get selected again. But then the day after the big pledge party night, I got a call saying that they needed 3 more pledges because they fell short of their target and would I consider joining? Now, I was a sophomore and that's why I didn't get on the first round list because you can't have a pledge call of all sophomores because then you have no one to live in the sorority house and your sorority roster will be out of sorts. This happened to be the sorority that my roommate got chosen to join the night before and this was the 'party' sorority. Since I fancied myself a party girl (although I could have fit into the smart, beautiful or party sorority in those days) I decided what the heck, join this sorority. Good thing I did join because another round of special friendships formed because of that sorority.

Now we get to present day. Would you know that my pledge daughter friended me on Facebook? At first I thought, who is this very beautiful woman that wants to friend me? And when I saw an old picture of her in her facebook pictures, I said to my husband "oh my gosh, that's my pledge daughter!". Little did I know that I would have to explain sorority life to my husband who didn't get the whole daughter thing and in the end I gave up. So evidently pledge daughter relationships can last a long time as well.....I now have a new old friend on the west coast!

Here's to things that last a long time! (and if you need any squash-- let me know)