Touched by an Angel(s)

You know... with my history of judging people and thinking I'm all high and mighty and at one point, having almost no friends at all, I'm constantly amazed and feel so lucky to be surrounded by amazing friends and people in my life now...

I met Liz and Lori on a business trip to Chicago a couple years ago. They worked in my company's Chicago office and they were nice enough to introduce themselves and take me out to dinner with some other office peeps when I visited. I really didn't think much of it then, I thought it was office politics and they were just trying to make people from the San Francisco office feel welcomed.

Then a few months later, my stepdad passed away. And a couple weeks after that I received a random HUGE box just filled with food, snacks, candy, letters, and most importantly, LOVE. It was from Liz and Lori. They found out about my stepdad's passing through one of my coworkers and sent me a ridiculously giant care package. I honestly couldn't believe it at the time... Two people who I just met for a day or two showed so much more care and love than some people I had known for what feels like a lifetime...

I was in Chicago for work and play recently and again, I was amazed at Liz and Lori's generosity and kindness. Liz literally wiped off whatever was on her schedule for the weekend and drove me around everywhere and bought me lunch/dinner and even let me stay with her and her boyfriend for the entire weekend! And Lori currently lives in Hawaii but was in town for a visit and brought me chocolates and coffee from Hawaii in addition to buying me lunch/dinner in Chicago! And honestly, it's no easy feat buying me food when we go out so we literally fought for the checks, had a foot race to pick up pizza, secretly paid our waiter before anyone noticed, and many more shenanigans... Oh and they picked me up and dropped me off at the airport too...

Long story short... Elizabeth and Lori, THANK YOU. I can honestly never thank you enough and you guys are two of the most kind-hearted people in the world. I wish I can be even half as good of a friend to you guys as you guys are to me. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.