Circle Rice

You know the kind of friend who knows everything about you? I mean EVERYTHING. The kind of friend you can call for no reason.  You can go on car rides together and be comfortably silent, not feeling the urge to fill the air with meaningless conversation.  The friend whose seen you do the “ugly” cry. The person you’ve shared a hotel room with and not worried about what they thought if you smelled up the bathroom. A person who could show up at your house  unexpected when it’s horribly messy and you didn’t feel the need to explain why. I can count on one hand the number of friends (not blood related) in my life like this and still have a few fingers left over.

In fact, since I’ve moved from South Carolina (6 years ago), I haven’t found anyone like this. It’s not that I haven’t put an honest effort in to find them, it just hasn’t happened. It’s not that I haven’t met people I really liked a lot, but it just seemed they weren’t interested in that level of friendship or the spark just wasn’t there.

My husband is now this kind of friend, but it doesn’t REALLY count, because he’s my husband. Besides, as you know I had to order him off the internet.

So now, It’s the two us searching for a “couple” to be our friends. The perfect couple. He has a lot in common with the guy, I have a lot in common with the girl and vice versa. They have kids. They are intelligent with a great sense of humor.  They like to be physically active, but also enjoy being couch potatoes on occasion. They are very cool, but at the same time very goofy. They enjoy drinking, but aren’t boozers. We could travel together and be so close that we may fight and annoy each other, but still like each other beneath the surface of it all.

There have been a few couples that came close. Some moved away. Some were just too young. Some partied too much. Some are just too busy with their lives to even have a chance. It seems there’s always something

I’m thinking they should start an internet service for couples who want to meet other couples.

Actually, now that I think about it, they probably have these sites, but they are most likely looking for a little more closeness than we had in mind. The mind wanders. Perhaps that’s not such a good idea. Gross.

I guess the search goes on.