{"id":1478,"date":"2007-08-24T00:37:07","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T07:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2007-10-23T01:15:10","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T08:15:10","slug":"cosmic-conscious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=1478","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Conscious"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/1219866715\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-photo\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1046\/1219866715_8b3beda43e.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/1219866715\/\">My Old Friend<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/obnoxiousaries\/\">Random and Odd<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">Last week I made a phone call to the parents of my best friend from High School.<br \/>\nI caught up on the stuff I have missed in the last 5 years or so since I had talked to them. At the end of the conversation I got my old best friend&#8217;s phone number and gave her a call.  She just had a baby so she was sleeping, but her daughter promised that she would call me back when she woke up.<\/p>\n<p>She didn&#8217;t call me. (Heavy sleeper?)<\/p>\n<p>A couple days later I was talking about my new crush to &#8216;Cita.  I told her I couldn&#8217;t figure out why I was crushing on this guy, he&#8217;s not my type, but there is something about his smile that makes me smile.  Oh, I guess I should clue you in on my &#8216;crush&#8217;.  Anyone watch &#8220;Dog The Bounty Hunter&#8221;?  It&#8217;s his son, Leland.<br \/>\nAs I was trying to describe his smile, it dawned on me that he had the same smile as an old friend of mine from a million years ago.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve known &#8216;Cita for 12 years and she had never heard THIS story about this guy.<\/p>\n<p>I went on to explain to her that he was this guy that was a cousin of a friend of mine.  He moved to Shingletown when I was 15, almost 16 and him and I started a friendship.  He was 17 at the time and from Southern California.  I told her about how he liked me, but I was so sprung on my boyfriend that I couldn&#8217;t see straight.  I told her about the night he tried to convince me that I was wasting my time with &#8216;that loser&#8217; and I needed to get together with him and be his girlfriend.  Being young and stupid I pretended like I didn&#8217;t hear it and went on just being friends.<br \/>\nHe moved and I went on with my life.<\/p>\n<p>I saw him once after he moved back to Southern California and it was for about 5 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>When I got home from being out with &#8216;Cita I googled his name and it came up with nothing.  Of course it didn&#8217;t. I have that sort of luck when I am trying to google someone.<\/p>\n<p>The next day my friend finally called me.  She told me I had to call our old friend because her cousin was in town.<br \/>\nI freaked. &#8220;NO WAY! I SWEAR TO GOD, I WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT HIM!&#8221;  I called our friend and talked to Terry.  We picked Thursday night to get together and catch up.<\/p>\n<p>Dude has not changed AT ALL!  He has gray hair now and that&#8217;s it. He&#8217;s still the laughing and smiling Terry I remember.<br \/>\nWe met at The Tree and then I took him home to meet the family.<br \/>\nKara was mostly interested in the stories he could tell about her mother.  Luckily he had to leave to go to a family dinner.<br \/>\n&#8216;Cita came over because she has a car with JPS and I get lost in a paper bag.<\/p>\n<p>She knew him all of 5 minutes before we are heading out to the car to leave and he yells, &#8220;SHOTGUN!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He may be an old friend, but not too old to yell Shotgun.<\/p>\n<p>It was a good visit and I hope we don&#8217;t lose contact.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, he may never talk to me again after I told him he looks like David Hasselhoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Old Friend, originally uploaded by Random and Odd. Last week I made a phone call to the parents of my best friend from High School. I caught up on the stuff I have missed in the last 5 years or so since I had talked to them. At the end of the conversation I got my old best friend&#8217;s phone number and gave her a call. She just had a baby so she was sleeping, but her daughter promised that she would call me back when she woke up. She didn&#8217;t call me. (Heavy sleeper?) A couple days later I was talking about my new crush to &#8216;Cita. I told her I couldn&#8217;t figure out why I was crushing on this guy, he&#8217;s not my type, but there is something about his smile that makes me smile. Oh, I guess I should clue you in on my &#8216;crush&#8217;. Anyone watch &#8220;Dog The Bounty Hunter&#8221;? It&#8217;s his son, Leland. As I was trying to describe his smile, it dawned on me that he had the same smile as an old friend of mine from a million years ago. I&#8217;ve known &#8216;Cita for 12 years and she had never heard THIS story about this guy. I went on to explain to her that he was this guy that was a cousin of a friend of mine. He moved to Shingletown when I was 15, almost 16 and him and I started a friendship. He was 17 at the time and from Southern California. I told her about how he liked me, but I was so sprung on my boyfriend that I couldn&#8217;t see straight. I told her about the night he tried to convince me that I was wasting my time with &#8216;that loser&#8217; and I needed to get together with him and be his girlfriend. Being young and stupid I pretended like I didn&#8217;t hear it and went on just being friends. He moved and I went on with my life. I saw him once after he moved back to Southern California and it was for about 5 minutes. When I got home from being out with &#8216;Cita I googled his name and it came up with nothing. Of course it didn&#8217;t. I have that sort of luck when I am trying to google someone. The next day my friend finally called me. She told me I had to call our old friend because her cousin was in town. I freaked. &#8220;NO WAY! I SWEAR TO GOD, I WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT HIM!&#8221; I called our friend and talked to Terry. We picked Thursday night to get together and catch up. Dude has not changed AT ALL! He has gray hair now and that&#8217;s it. He&#8217;s still the laughing and smiling Terry I remember. We met at The Tree and then I took him home to meet the family. Kara was mostly interested in the stories he could tell about her mother. Luckily he had to leave to go to a family dinner. &#8216;Cita came over because she has a car with JPS and I get lost in a paper bag. She knew him all of 5 minutes before we are heading out to the car to leave and he yells, &#8220;SHOTGUN!&#8221; He may be an old friend, but not too old to yell Shotgun. It was a good visit and I hope we don&#8217;t lose contact. Of course, he may never talk to me again after I told him he looks like David Hasselhoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}