Seriously? I mean, the idea of jumping off a thirty foot platform and twisting and turning your way to the surface is hard enough. But having to do it at the exact same pace, positing, timing ... everything as another diver? That's insane.
Today's bonus prize is a YOU HAD ME AT HALO by Amanda Ashby (the author lives in NZ, so I snagged a signed copy last time I saw her--but it won't be personalized). If you read the blurb you'll figure out why this book is the perfect prize from synchronized diving day.
Holly Evans has just seen her body laid to rest. Now she would like to move onto the afterlife. But apparently she has some mortal baggage to unload first, starting with the matter of how she died. Her heavenly shrink isn't buying that she didn't kill herself and says she must return to earth to straighten things out. The thing is, she needs to borrow the body of computer geek Vince Murphy to do it. Oh, and although Vince was supposed to have vacated the premise, he apparently never got the memo.Today's topic of discussion (for contest entry purposes) is bffs. Have you had one, none, or many bffs in your life? Are you still tight with any or all of them? How long have you known them? For me, I've only ever had one friend where we actually called each other bffs. It was in high school and we did practically everything together. But after high school we went separate ways. We lost touch after a while (although I did get to go to her wedding, which was awesome). Do you think some friendships (like ones you develop in high school or college) have experiation dates? Or am I just a bad long-distance friend?
Now, Holly has forty-eight hours to resolve her issues while sharing arms, legs, and...other things...with a guy she barely noticed while she was alive. But the real surprise is what life has to offer when you have only two days to live it.
SYNCHRONIZED DIVING CONTEST
Answer this question: What are your thoughts on bffs? (Yours, mine, or others in general.)
PRIZES
(1) copy of OH. MY. GODS. or teaser of GODDESS BOOT CAMP
(1) copy of YOU HAD ME AT HALO by Amanda Ashby
Enter below and check back tomorrow (and the day after that and the day after that) for a new contest. Winners of all contests will be posted on August 25th.
And don't forget the other contests:
Gold Medal Contest
COOP 1 I WANNA BE YOUR JOEY RAMONE by Stephanie Kuenhert
COOP 2 CRUEL SUMMER by Alyson Noel
COOP 3 HOW TO HOOK A HOTTIE by Tina Ferraro
COOP 4 REVENGE OF THE HOMECOMING QUEEN and TWISTED SISTERS by Stephanie Hale
COOP 5 SHRINK TO FIT by Dona Sarkar and VIOLET IN PRIVATE by Melissa Walker
COOP 6 LULU DARK CAN SEE THROUGH WALLS by Bennett Madison
COOP 7 ZETA OR OMEGA? and THE NEW SISTERS by Marley Gibson (writing as Kate Harmon)
Hugs,
TLC
40 comments:
I've had two BFFs. One lives far away and we're still tight. :) The other also lives a couple hours away. And although we might not talk all the time anymore, she knows if she needs me, I'm there and vice versa.
I guess the BFF thing depends on the person. :)
I've had 4. One was two years older than me, and we went our seperate ways after 4th grade. We were neighbors, and I met her when I was a baby.
The other 3 are still my close friends.
(1) One goes to my school, and we are super-close. We knew eachother in 1st grade but didn't hang out until 5th. I can tell her anything.
(2) Another used to go to my school but left last year. We met and hung out at daycare. We've got a lot of funny stories from that.
(3) The last has never gone to my school. We met at the nursery of our old church. Both our families left at the same time and went to different churches. But we still hang out every month and fill eachother in on everything.
I really hope the friendships last. I predict (1) and I will stay BFF. (2) will drift away, I think. Her old friends don't seem to be a part of her new life at her school. And (3)? I think if we work at it, it'll last.
I've had a couple BFFs. Elementary school I had two, one that went to my school and another that was my friend since I was a baby. If you can call them friends that young. lol
In middle school I moved, and made a new BFF that didn't last very long though because we grew apart. Same with high school, everyone just went in separate directions. I still keep in contact with one though.
When I was 17 I met my current best friend. Him and I have been going strong for 9 years now, and we even lived together for awhile. :) I love my BFF he's honest, hilarious, and will tell me if I'm being a mean girl. :D
Well... to be perfectly honest.
I don't believe in the whole best friends thing, putting a label on your friend classifying them who's better than the other is just ridiculous... not to mention givign them the label 'best' is like carte Blanche for them to screw you over. Learn from me here. Been there, done that.
But I do have friends that I value dearly, many. Juli, Wafa, Vicky... they help me out with my ideas and bug the hell outta me so I can actually do something. Challenge me. There's Nique, Agnes, and Raquel too. They're fun... and i guess you can count Tex too, when he's not being a total pest.
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What are your thoughts on bffs? (Yours, mine, or others in general.)
My answer to this isn't one that's very nice. That may be because since I was a kid I've had five best friends. They normally last 1-2 years. I love having a best friend when she is there, but if she moves and switches schools our relationship is doomed. I don't know if its because I'm a bad long-distance friend (like you think of yourself) but its just hard to keep up with someone you don't see every day at school. My "best friend" right now isn't really being my best friend right now. I haven't seen her since the beginning of the summer and she doesn't contact with me unless I do it first. She kind of reunited with an old friend and she's with her now... It's frustrating but what are you gonna do?
I'm girl-best-friend less at the moment, unless you count my mom.
I'm a bad LDF! Yet... the strangest thing... I think the best BFF stand the test of time. I mean... you can be separated by miles and years, and still act like BFFs when you are together.
BFFs are like the best friends you can ever have. i dont think i could count them (not that i have like a million) but because it's kinda hard to define. for me, a BFF is someone who will be there for you always, and well, people change sometimes. i usually classify people as good friends, sort-of friends, acquaintances, or people i dont know.
I think i've had two real best friends. One since i was little, but then we went our seperate ways in sixth grade and i found a new best friend who i've been close to ever since.
i think the idea of BFFs is different to everyone.
I have a bff now, sort of. I'm nearly 24 so I don't think of it that way since I've had too many problematic friendships in the past. Instead, he's just a great friend who I had inside jokes with and with whom I can be completely myself. Past BFFs turned out to not be the kind of people that I would still want to know. But I do have other friends who (I guess) were my best friends at the time. We're not still in touch, but when we call or im, it's like the time-space continuum has jumped us back to when we were closest. Of course, I was born with a best friend in my older sister, but it's hard to be as close when she's in such a different place in her life...
Ooh! Love the BFF question--and all the replies! I've had several BFFs through the years...but only one whom I would say has completely stood the test of time. We've had our moments of going our separate ways, but always come back together again. We met in high school and have known each other 20 years now. Pretty cool!
Btw: So impressed with all your Olympics blogs. Ugh. Would you believe I haven't even had time to turn on the TV, much less blog, since the games began? I know...how much does THAT suck? I'm hoping to watch some of it online or something--esp. the gymnastics.
XO
I really don't have a bff but I have a lot of friends that are girls that do. My perspective is that some bffs are forever but then there are the occasional that are fake bffs. Those are the ones that usually betray each other.
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i LOVE bff's they are sooo great, well mine are haha i love them so much they are such great funny awesome friends!!! we all go to school together so i see them a lot and we live near each other so we hang out a lot too and we are always keeping in touch talking on the phone, texting, or emailing each other
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I kind of think the best friend thing is kind of over rated because people tend to grow apart after awhile. Even though I think that I still give into classifying which of my friends are my best friends. I have had quite of few but I’ll only list three.
1. R. and I have been best friends since about the middle of 5th grade. One of the reasons we have always been close is because he is a guy. So. I can tell him stuff and not have it blabbed all over the school and most of the time there's no drama between us.Though in this past school year we have kind of grown apart and I’ve been replaced with another person. I miss him a lot and I hope some day down the road we became close again.
2. A. and I became friends when we both started playing Field Hockey in 7th grade. We didn’t talk this summer but when we started Field Hockey practice last week it felt like we had never been apart.
3.G. and I have started school this past year hating each other but over the last year we have become best friends. Though we haven’t been friends as long as I have with R. and A. I know I can always count on her being there for me .
I've got one friend that moved after 5th grade, but we still talk every other day and she just came to visit. She's definitely my BFF. I've got other friends, but I don't think we'll be friends forever. Not many people stay friends forever. BFF is usually just a temporary title that sounds good, but when you do have BFF, it's awesome.
i dont have a bff. i never really needed one since i have my sister and well tell each other EVERYTHING. but now that she's moivng out, i think i might start shopping for a bff.. =)
I have a horrible history of BFFs. My high school ones ended up ditching me for one reason or another (though we're still on good terms, just don't talk often) and my latest one has also ditched me. I'm taking the opportunity to get to know more people better.
Throughout my life I've had 6 really good BFFs. Sadly as life has taken me along its merry way I've lost most of those relationships or they've been severely weakened. It's so sad because those people were supposed to be the ones I was the most close to, outside of my family. We were supposed to always be there for each other through thick and thin- no matter what. Yet somehow we let life get in the way, and now I only speak to about 2-3 of them with any regularity. One is like my sister since we've known each other since we were little kids. The other isn't someone I've known for as long, but as far as current day friends are concerned she easily deserves the "best friend" merit. :)
I've never had a friend that I thought could be a life long friend or a "BFF". I mean, I've had plenty of good and close friends but stuff just happened and we always sort of drift apart. For instance, in fifth grade, I considered this girl in my class, Jazmyn, my best friend and vice versa. But once we graduated from elementary school, we found out that we were going to go to different middle schools, and even though we both promised to keep in touch and I even went to her bday party over summer. But then we lost touch. And then during middle school, I met this girl, Emily and we were really close and became fast friends. But then stuff just happened and we drifted apart. I still talk to her and say hi whenever I see her but we're not on the same level of friendship like in middle school. And, now, as a junior in high school, I have a group of friends that I've hung out with since 8th grade and they're the best friends I could ask for right now but, to be honest, I don't think its going to last after high school just b/c of different interests and dreams of what we want to do after high school...
But I do like the concept of a "BFF." I think it'll be great to have a life long friend my age that I know will always be there for me, to hang out and have fun with, trust with my deepest darkest secrets (not that I have any of course :D) and vice versa.
Grace L
I've had a few when I was younger, but we lost touch after I moved to a different country. Now, I have 2 bffs who love me very much. It's fun. I love having them! :)
My bff is studying in a different state. But we still contact each other since we have so much in common and so many stories to share! xD
I think everyone has friends they considered to be their best friends. I think the term itself is overrated and overused...and sometimes it can be used as a hurtful term. I have people who are my 'sisters'/'brothers', close friends, and then friends. I guess the sisters and brothers would equate to BFF's but, in my head, they are like my family, so I treat them as such.
I have some really good friends. They don't consider me as a BFF, maybe only one but I find them supportive. I can't say BFF because who knows, maybe one day will never talk to each other again. But I believe these close friends of mine that we will be friends for a long time. <3
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I have 1 true bff. She lives far away now but we were so close that even now whenever I talk to her it's the same. I know I can tell her anything and that she'll always be there for me. I think it's really hard to find a true friend. I've had many friends and only my bff keeps up with me and she's the only one that I ever felt comfortable with. I've been betrayed, gossiped about and dropped by supposed bff's. So i'm not letting the one I have go and will tell anyone else who has one to keep them close to their heart.
I have 2 of them, a guy and a girl, whom I've for over 20 yrs each. They stood up with me when I got married 2 yrs ago. I have other friends, but these two have been with me thru everything and probably know me better than my family and husband. I've noticed, too, that when I write, all my characters have 1 or 2 bfs as well.
I've been thinking on the whole 'best friends' thing a lot this past week...mostly because I thnk a friend I've had since I was four, might not really be my best friend any more :(
But I have a great friend now who helped me see how that really might be okay...so I think maybe sometimes it works to have friends that stay best friends forever, but a lot of times I think life just works in ways that you have great friends at different times and sometimes old friends come back...
I don't like the term best friend and I don't use it. I know I signed notes BFF when I was younger, but over the years my thoughts have definitely changed. I don't want to put one friend over another, so I don't.
I have had two best friends so far. I was tight with one for 3 years until I couldn't handle all the drama she was producing. I handled that situation very wrong. We're still friends but not as close.
Now I have one best true friend who I'm so lucky to have. I've been best friends with her for almost five years. I literally do not know what I would do without her. She's bascially the only person I can really turn to other than mi familia.
BFFs depends on the person. But one thing I've heard that has really stuck with me is, "If you're lucky, you will have five true friends in your lifetime." Or something along those lines.
Omg, when I saw your diving post, I was thinking about how you should post about synchronized diving too! I saw this student-teacher team from Australia, and their last dive was fantastic! =D The student was really young too!
About bffs, I haven't really had that many of them. I'm kind of weird in the way that I tend to have only one bff (but sometimes more) that I hang out with at school. But I have gone to quite a few different schools! =D
I'm not the greatest ldf either :( But, just last week my best friend from high school Priya (last year) texted, to say hi and asked how uni was, which was so sweet of her! I think that goes to show that not all friendships have expiration dates. I’ve never actually grown out of a friendship before, but I have lost touch. I think it’s awesome you got to go to your former bff’s wedding! =D
~Lucy D =)
BFFs rule :)
I still exchange christmas cards with the one from 3rd grade.
And I visit the one from 9th grade at least once a year (we live on different continents, so this is better than it sounds).
I had two BFFs. One I knew from when I was 3, the other from when I was 5. Us three were BFFs together but me and the girl I knew longer were always closer. Now me and the one I knew for the shorter amount of time don't even talk anymore. It's kinda sad but I guess people change. But I am still BFFs with the girl I've known since I was 3. I love her so much and we have so much fun together. I have a few other BF's but no one is a BFF like she is. I love having a BFF because they're always there for you, and they don't judge you. :)
I've had/have two bff's. The first one was on the first day of kindergarten, she was crying and I went over to comfort her, I think it's hard to remember, and we were instant friends, but then I moved from Germany all the way to California and she moved from Germany to Texas and we spoke a bit, but I haven't spoken to her in a few years. My current bff I met at the end of 4th grade. we both moved away at the start of 5th grade, her to another town and me to a few thousand miles away in another state. But we still talk on gmail all the time and we're tight. We're also complete opposites.
I think everybody needs more then one bff, although one is awesome, I think having more then one bff is something amazing. You can have different relationships.
Everyone should have a BFF. But since it means BEST friend, I guess there can technically only be one. Luckily, my BFF will never be replaced. She's also my younger sister. No one knows me as well as she and there is no one else I trust with my deepest secrets.
I've had to "BFFs." We've all been friends since sixth grade. I talk to both of them every single day. We normally hang out on weekends.
I had one once, and we did things together all the time and shared secrets, but eventually we were separated for a few years and when we saw each other again we had nothing in common any more. I don't really have that kind of friend now, but a few good friends.
I don't think saying BEST friend makes sense. I like to think I can value all my friends for different skills and qualities.
I don't really have on anymore. My former BFF is sort of distant now that I moved. And my new friends are great, but I don't feel like I completely trust them yet.
I have 2 bffs and 2 people who I am really close to (like, bffs #2). My mom and sis are my bffs. We're really close. My sis and I are like twins, except I'm 6 years older. In high school, one of my bffs went to church with me (we were 1 day apart) and the other went to school with me (we were a month apart). We're still close to this day. These relationships will last...I'm sure of it.
I think bffs are great!! They always help me out when I need them I love them so much and cannot be away from them for too long
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I have one BFF that I've been friends with since I was 13. Many others have come and gone.
Best friends are friends. And friends are best friends. Can anyone really understand it?
Girlwiththebraids
(Adayla S.)
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