This is her...she just ran a FULL MARATHON 2 days ago. She is my hero.
On my way back to Knoxville yesterday, I started thinking about her and how cool she is and how blessed I am and really wanted to hang out with her. (She tends to get stressed about school and ditches me for studying! :)) We decided to just hang out at our apartment and chat, catch up on each other lives. Then we planned a shopping day for today...random errands. When I was driving around with her this morning, listening to Gungor's Beautiful Things, I was so thankful!!
2 years ago, at this SAME TIME, I was freaking out about college. I was about to graduate and getting more and more anxious about leaving for a new city. At that time, I didn't have a roommate. I didn't even have a plan for finding a roommate.
Over the summer, I messaged some girls on Facebook about possibly rooming together, trying to find someone with similar passions and interests. And then on one ordinary day, a friend of a friend told me about Katie. Katie was also going to UT and didn't have a roommate and was looking for one. "You guys would get along great!"is what she told me. So I found her on Facebook, stalked her (I had to make sure she wasn't crazy) and started messaging her and then we decided to live together! We met in person for the first time at the Target in Clarksville, where we color coordinated everything for our dorm room...we were THOSE girls.
Anyways. We have lived together for almost 2 years now, and we are planning on being life-long roommates! Even when we get married, we have talked about living next door to one another. HAH! I even gave her the nickname "Ramrod" which is what she is known for now....she used to hate it, but I'm pretty sure she wants to tell her professors to call her that now because she is so in love with it.
I am so thankful for her and her encouragement. God was so faithful throughout that entire process and I could not have asked for a better roommate. Yes, we get frustrated with one another every once in a while, but what friendship doesn't have struggles?! She keeps me going, pushes me to be better. Thank you, Katie, for being there for me, showing me the greatness of hammockin', teaching me patience, convincing me to run a half marathon, and pushing me in this crazy life. I pray that we will continue running the race of life together for many years to come.
P.S. I think this picture describes our friendship perfectly...I'm weird, and I bring out the weirdness in Katie, Ramrod, Rams, Runner-girl, "List-lover"
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