dazzledbylight
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Actually I'm soooo tired from everything
I've had to do this week I'm tiredly numb for now.
If it wasn't for the above reason my reaction would be more like the above smilies.
As it'll be sometime, i suppose, before the day/eve/is over or soon after.
My friend *Brenda*
While Brenda wasn't my closest friend - since she was my sis's friend first so I didn't want to work toward that level of friendship (not shoe in on my sis) - she was a good friend and a long time one of about 34 years.
We became friends (from acquaintances) over time>
it might have been a time in my life when I had either less friends than before or after that period /or several were not as available as before < work? College? > - so new ones were welcome!
The way we became friends ?
I was hanging out with my sis & her friends off & on during the early- mid 70's just getting together but it was also.......
...... rock & roll, baby!
We> my sis, myself, Bren & Glenn were I thought of us sometimes as "the rock & roll four" !!!
Often it'd be us four, and sometimes other friends from Helen's & mine own group along with us!
We started out ? around 74? + or - .
The bands we saw the most together were The Who, Bruce Springsteen & E ST (and his other band) and U2 !!!
But there were others at times as well.
Over these times I'd eventually found out that Brenda & I also had a bunch of other passions in common: jewelry & making our own/ political-social activism/ Intelligent Science Fiction in Media & Literature/ cooking & eating out in NYC.
Brenda became (after being in a company or x years as an Accounting Clerk/ later Accounting Dept. Manager-- mostly through her own study & diligence became an IT Manager for a bunch of years.
She also developed a very
wonderful style of beading; which she sold as well.I even made a bracelet once with various using some of MY Favorite beads decorative silver beads, gray pearls, gray beads, Labaradorite (a greyish semi-precious gem that often glows <in spots> white-blue, turquoise, and a royal blue, when the light hits it in certain ways) .
BUT I Designed it in her style!
She was an activist. She did a lot of steady long-time work with Amnesty International.
We swapped SF, and bit of Fantasy books (the Darkover series in particular with mixed SF & F), and talked on about various SF series & books we loved for decades.
One of her closest friends turned her on to Indian food. She in turn asked me if I wanted to try it ( 25+ yrs back). I did . Loved it !
SO we spent many a dinner out
at various Northern, later (as they sprung up) Southern and the further multi-regional Indian restaurants as well.She was a fabulous cook, willing to try new stuff as well.
When our parents no longer did Thanksgiving, they invited Helen over to theirs, and few years later
me as well. I spent 5 Thanksgivings with them & the rest of their familes, including 2008.Brenda had a wry, sometimes snarky, and sometimes straight out funny sense of humor. OMG we'd laugh & laugh at times! BTW "snarky" is NOT Yet reconized by Spellcheck!
She supported me also through several very rough times in my life for which I am also *deeply grateful*.
I'm going to miss her very much. : (
I will imagine that she is seating, & standing, dancing and singing besides me when we (the R & R ?3) go to both U2 & Springsteen/ E ST this late Sept/ and early Oct at Giants Stadium.
Rock on, Bren..........
*THANK YOU* PLEBANS for all your support!
