1488 13 December This is the first time I am going to see my best friend, who I haven't seen in two years. She is coming home for Christmas and New Year's Eve. We are planning to have a lot of fun together. I will pick her up at the airport on Wednesday afternoon. After that, we will go shopping in downtown San Francisco. Then we will meet up with some other friends and go out for dinner. We might also catch a movie or two if time permits. I am really excited about this trip because it has been such a long time since I last saw her face to face. It feels like just yesterday when we were kids playing tag in the park behind our houses. Now here she is again after all these years apart from each other. She looks so different but still very familiar somehow...like an old friend who suddenly reappears into your life out of nowhere...and then everything starts feeling normal once more as though nothing ever happened between us during those missing months...