To My Dearest Oboe Buddy ♥

    I've been reading back through some of my old posts and I realized that I've only talked about my absolute best friend, Taylor, twice. This is a crime! Taylor is my oboe buddy, my partner in crime (: I've known her since middle school, but sadly we didn't become best friends until high school when we put our competitive music playing aside... Mostly (;

    When I think back to where our friendship truly started, I keep thinking the very first time I knew we were going to be super close was my sophomore year when Tay picked me up so we could get to the school early for our Field of Honor performance. She had had trouble finding my house (like everyone does at least the first time) so she had called. I remember laughing about it with her as I saw Burtha (her car) pull onto my street. Just... getting into the passenger seat of that dang black Blazer felt right. So many conversations about both important and random things have happened in that car (: And don't even get me started on prom in that thing! hahahaha (:

    What makes me so sad is that we hardly ever get to see each other anymore ): Tay attends college in another city that might as well be a million miles away from how crabby my parents can be about letting me go visit her >.> Even when she does come home, it's like her work owns her soul. I miss my best friend dang it!

Taylor,

    I've known you for going on 7 years, we've been best friends going on 5 years, and my only regret is that we didn't become best friends sooner! I wouldn't trade a single memory we share for anything in the world (: You are the one person in this world I trust with everything and I love you a ton (: Even though you're home right now I still miss you a ton more than I probably should because I did get to see you at your work the other day. But that's just not the same and we both know it. Although i rather see you two minutes via a drive through than not at all. You have always understood me & my highly psychotic mind (: Thank you for always being there for me, even when I screw up. I was really terrified I was going to lose you after my latest mess up... I am so sorry for being that stupid and I promise I will do everything in my power to gain back the respect I lost because of my actions. You're my best friend and, even though I've said it a million times before, I CANNOT picture what my life would be like without you in it. And I don't want to picture it either! You have made my life so much better just by being yourself ♥

You're my oboe buddy, my best friend, my sister and I love you ♥ (:

One of my favorite pictures of us (:

They Shall Run and be Free

We split the oboe solo in this song back in my sophomore year(: Still one of my favorite songs to play because I had the honor of playing it with my best friend ♥