Facebook Findings

I should start this one by saying this is not me “beating a record” by writing two days in a row! This one is more of something I just need to get off my chest and express to those who care and just want to read.

This morning I woke up and was ready for the world. My phone beeped at me to let me know it was a friend’s birthday. I know VERY few birthdays, I’m starting to even forget my own. I looked at the time, too early to call. So I jumped on Facebook. Even Facebook at a reminder that it was her birthday, WoooHooo I was on top of it! I get on her page and write:

“HAPPY BIRTHDAY LADY!! I do miss your face and hope you are having a wonderful  day!”

Underneath me her brother, whom I never met wrote

“Happy Birthday….I miss you.”

This got my attention, therefore I became a snoop! The last time I talked to Danielle phone wise was in December. Graysen actually called her; we ended up talking for a good while catching up. Since then we caught up here and there on Facebook. That was us, catch and go. Through my snooping around I realized that maybe I wasn’t that great of a friend. Danielle Bull passed away a month and half ago. It was a load of emotion that hit me, and is still overwhelming me; anger at myself and sadness for all those who knew and loved her.

We met in the Ohio airport. Well, we were sitting in the terminal area and I was talking to a guy that was going to the same place as me. We were headed to Piney Point MD to do some cruise line training. D was listening to our conversation and she asked me. “You’re from Colorado?” and me being hesitant said “yessss.” She got excited and said “Me TOO!” We then started talking and we were both from Colorado, she graduated at Western State (I went there for a year, the year she graduated). She knew people from my tiny hometown. I think I was a little freaked out at first, and maybe she was too. All I know is fate brought us together. We grew closer throughout the cruise line training, made some wonderful friends but I left keeping in touch with very few and she was in that list.

After the cruise line deal she was staying out in Hawaii in hotels with a few other people. I told her I’d go back out there, and I did. Unfortunately she didn’t stay out there for more than a week. She went back to Colorado, saved some money and did what she loved, traveled. She went back to Australia for school. She had done a study abroad program there in College and she LOVED it! Always talked about it, I always told her to have a couch so I could come and visit!

Through the distance D and I kept in touch. She met up with me and met my future husband when I went back to Colorado. I’m truly surprised she approved, HA we all went bowling that night and she showed up a little later, a little later meaning my wonderful husband was already drunk. She saw him and recognized him from my photos on-line, so she said “Brandon?” I GUESS he thought she was the waitress and said “ya, another pitcher!!”  Overall it was another great, memorable night with her.

The last time I saw her was two years ago. Long over do! She came to Brandon and I’s wedding in Las Vegas.  It was a wonderful time, and I was so happy she had come to be there and support me. We had a very small wedding, and for her to come, it meant so much to me. Honestly, more than words can even describe.

Danielle,

You are SUCH a BEAUTIFUL person in and out. You are a wonderful friend and I can’t wait to catch up with you again. You are so friendly and have such spunk. You make me laugh no matter the situation. Adventurous, courageous, loyal and true are only a few words I can use to describe you. You are and will always be in my heart. My prayers and blessings go to your family, and to all of those who had a chance to know you.

A Spiritual Journey

Life is a spiritual journey from

the first day of our birth,

Life is a spiritual journey on this

beautiful planet called earth.

Life is a spiritual journey -

we're here to learn all we can,

Life is a spiritual journey -

a special gift from God to man.

Faye Kilday

RIP Danielle Bull