Oh, Alexis…the craziest person I have ever met, haha. There was a time, not too long after I started at Sewell, when my mother was angry at me for something I didn’t do. It came up in the argument that I could leave if I wanted to. I didn’t argue, I was miserable as hell anyways, so I grabbed some stuff and left. But I had no where to go. My best friend was in Houston going to school and my sister was living in Arizona. I drove around crying and calling a few people from my phone list, but no one was answering. Then I came across a number of a coworker, a sales girl who I had known for about 2 weeks. She was loud and in-your-face at work and didn’t seem like the kind of person I would mesh well with. But she’d insisted I take her number so we could hang out sometime. Feeling down and needing someone to talk to, I called her to vent. A few hours later she had me set up on a mattress in her living room, she lived with her boyfriend (a mutual coworker of ours) and they didn’t hesitate for a second to take me in indefinitely. They didn’t require I pay any bills, but I paid for groceries and stuff here and there. I was there for 6 months, and I have been grateful for Alexis in my life EVERY DAY since then. She turned out to be just as crazy and wild as I thought, but there was so much more to her I wouldn’t have seen had I not called her that night. She has a heart bigger than anyone I’ve ever met, and she’s fiercely loyal. We can go weeks or months at a time without talking and pick up like nothing happened. She’s moved around a lot and I rarely see her, but I always get so giddy when I do. She was my angel years ago when she helped me out, and I love her to death.
She was able to bring out what little crazy/wild side I had when I was around her back in the day. We had a lot of good times. There was one night she and I got TRASHED at a bar about two miles from where we lived (one of those few times since my 21st birthday). She’s a better functioning drunk than I am, and she had to sober up instantly to help me put one foot in front of the other that night. She picked me up off of the concrete in our parking lot after I’d vomited electric blue all over the place, and somehow got me in the apartment, undressed from my clothes, dressed in my pajamas, and onto my mattress all tucked in. Now, I am 5’10” and I’m not a skinny person. Alexis is 5’3”. The fact that she moved around my mostly limp body to do all of this was a feat, haha.
But the thing I’m most thankful for with Alexis was her encouragement of me to join eHarmony. I thought it would make me a loser to resort to meeting someone online, but she started telling me about couples she knew who had met off of there, and she convinced me to give it a shot. If it wasn’t for her, I don’t know that I ever would’ve gotten on there. And if I hadn’t gotten on there, I wouldn’t have met Andrew. So I am indebted to her for so much.
Alexis, I adore you. You’ve been such an integral part of my life, and it was you who really made me start to love myself and believe in myself. I always referred to you as my personal cheerleader, there wasn’t a DAY that went by without you telling me half a dozen things that were great about me. You made me hold my chin up high and feel like I was worth something, and there’s no possible way to ever thank you enough for that. I can’t imagine where I would be today had the Lord not brought us together. I love you so much!!!
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