Fab Friday: BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE LETTER "L"

It's Fab Friday:

I'm going to talk about three people who are fab whose name start with the letter L. Whee!

First is Laura from http://betweenthelinesblog.net

I met Laura briefly at my college pal Patrick's wedding. She was their photographer and she did a very nice job. Patrick and Liz are some of the most lovely people I have ever met and she really captured who they were in her photos--all of the beauty, emotions, craziness, tenderness, passion, and hilariousness. Impressed, I started following her blog. I love her blog!  Don't you guys love her blog, too?  Isn't that why you all are here today? Anyway, she's so positive and creative and really GOOD at blogging. Reading her blog makes me want to blog. Laura and I are very different people, but she's very likeable and talented and I'm glad that I have her to read about every morning.

Speaking of Liz ... I really like her blog so much! http://www.districtmurphy.com

I first met Liz through the early days of LiveJournal, actually.  She was one of my first friends to abandon LJ to have a blog instead. Instead of being whiny and boring in her LJ, I actually liked reading her entries.  She'd format them with pretty pictures and write about things I liked such as movies, purses, and dinosaurs. So when she started blogging instead (she should have been doing this all along, she has a great style) I totally added her to my Google Reader.

One time I called her and said to her "This guy is hot, you totally have known him for years and have no idea. I would totally bone him if I wasn't with Greg, and I think you two should meet up and I've been meaning to tell you for five years."

And then I swore her to secrecy because who says that about their friends???

(I do.  I'm very inappropriate about things like that.  Plus, all my friends are really attractive and I have major crushes on all of them because in a perfect world they would all want to get with this. Sorry not sorry.)

And as it turned out, I was totally right.  They belong together! But then I got really irrationally mad at her because after she married him she moved him to DC of all places! (I'm a agoraphobic homebody so that may as well be Guam.) But as she'll show you in her blog (and pretty much any time you get to see her), DC is AMAZING and they both totally belong there. Plus she fed me cheese and plied me with wine a couple times and who could ask for more?

SPEAKING OF LIZZES IN GENERAL let me tell you about my favorite Liz who absolutely does not go by Beth ever http://www.etsy.com/shop/fierceangel

I met Liz in 1996 in Mr. Reda's Intro to Biology class at Glen Burnie High.  I really really liked her right away mainly because she sat next to me and wasn't annoying.  Usually when I have to sit next to someone in class they want to talk all the time and I get in trouble for responding because I do not have an inside voice at all.

And to be honest, she was really pretty and I pretty much spent all class period staring at her hair, all body waved and golden, wishing desperately my hair looked like that. She also had the nerve to wear whatever she wanted.  One month she'd be super trendy in baby tees and cargo pants, the next she'd be goth with blue hair streaks and eyeliner doodled rose vines decorating her face. But the coolest thing about her was that she liked to write. Sure, it was teen angst poetry at the time (we were fourteen after all), but I have a special spot within my heart for people who love to write.

When I moved back into town after college in 2005, she was the first person who found me on MySpace. (With all these MySpace and LiveJournal references, I'm fingering my first gray hair.) Over the last seven years she has impressed me with her crafting expertise, her kindness to others, and her charitable efforts.  Plus she is a cat person.  So she could pretty much stomp on my head and eat all of my cheese and I would still come to her house for summer group viewings of Nightmare Before Christmas.

Plus, the way to her heart is crinkle cut zucchini, not cheese, so that would never happen. Right?