How Do You Know?????

How do you know that you have the most amazing, bestest, most greatest girlfriends in the entire world - no, make that the entire universe?

She calls you to make sure that you are ok when you do not come home at the time that you usually do - she even apologizes sweetly about it by starting her sentence with, "I know I am not your mother, but..." and you cannot help but vow that you will at least try to text her when your plans have changed.
When you are feeling ravenous and you are about to eat the entire contents of the fridge or the fridge itself, she gently reminds you of a conversation you two had not too long ago about how you both needed to help each other not eat entire bags, packages, jars and containers of stuff... and then she does not get insulted when you decide not to heed her words of wisdom by going to the dep and getting a big bag of chips AND chocolate!

She shows up at your work, completely unannounced and unbeknown to you just to brighten up your day with a bear hug and the most beautiful smile.  The only reason you know she is there is because you get a text from her saying "I am at your work, where are YOU?"  Meanwhile, you were getting food and had left your kiosk unattended - oops!! 
She tells you that you are beautiful and amazing even though you are currently having a fat, bloated and get-out-of-my-face day - and she will not allow you to say anything else other than a grudging "Thank you" through tightly pulled together lips and a suppressed sigh of irritation at having been called such things.

She brings you macaroons because you briefly mention that you miss a particular person showing up at your work with coffee - the sweet, gooey, fruity, chocolatey, caramely and flakey taste of each macaroon momentarily making you forget... almost... but the smile on her face when she gave you the tiny white paper bag overtakes even the lingering taste of the  macaroons in your mouth and, after having devoured them, you are left with a smile because of her thoughtfulness.
She gets you the same EXACT earrings you bought with her in Quebec City because she recently found out that you had lost one and had consequently been unable to wear them because 'them' had become an 'it' and you cannot possibly just wear one of a pair of earrings.  She sweetly gives you a tiny brown box with a red sparkly ribbon tied on it while a mischievous light dances in her eyes - and tears of happiness swell in your own when you open up the box and see what is inside.

She stays with you the whole night when you have gotten completely shit and piss-faced drunk even though it had not been in her plans at all to do so - and she does not even make you feel an ounce of wishing that she was in fact in her own bed rather than listening to a riled up and inebriated midget talking and laughing as though the present company she is with is deaf... she even tells you the next day that she had a good time despite the fact that you are both in last night's clothes and you have only had three or four hours of sleep.
She gets just as riled up, excited and crazy as you do when you start making plans together and you both end up feeding off of each other's energy - who needs Timmy's when you have her by your side?





She takes the time to help you create a profile on a dating site that you do not even end up signing up for because you are too cheap - and she does not even call you on it even though she has wasted her time to make the profile to begin with.  She even gets excited for you when you talk to her about the potential dates you have met on the other, free site.
She creates the most awesome looking tattoo design even before you have mentioned what it is that you want exactly and she has started it before you have even asked her to design it for you in the first place!
And what do you know, when she shows you the finished version you realize that it is exactly what you had wanted.

She wears a crazy hat to go bowling because she had worn it the last time the two of you had gone together and she looks just as amazing and funny as she did the first time she wore it!  Perhaps the hat gave her some good luck because she did pretty well!     
She goes on and on about how much weight you have lost and how gorgeous you look, but she does so in such a genuine and celebratory way that you cannot help but sort of pat yourself on the back along with her!

Ladies, hats off to you all for being the gorgeous, beautiful, intelligent, caring, thoughtful, patient (especially with me), generous, genuine, hilarious, talented, gifted and amazing women that you are!  Each one of you has made my life that much more beautiful for being a part of it.