The More the Berrier: And someone else instead of me always seems to know the way

This one is a tribute to my bestie, Cara. She deserves some blog space. 'Cause she is pretty great. I just thought I would let you all know.

I tend to be more times than not rattled about one thing or another. And she is just so. fucking. calm. She has been my best friend since we were 15. We met on the first day of high school in an awfully cliche manner. I thought she was so cool. She had awesome big hair and always lots of frosty lip gloss.

See?

In all of the years I have known her, I think I can count on one hand the number of times that she has been genuinely worked up. She is neither unreasonable nor pushy and she seems to have been born with the ability to process difficult lessons in a way that is completely composed and frankly, totally foreign to me. Its like she is made of teflon or something.

Its real mushy, but I think I realize as I get older how important it is to have friends that know you inside and out. And STILL like you! I have always maintained that even though I don't want to get married, I would indeed enter into holy matrimony with any man who likes me as much as she does.

So one other thing, she wrote a small piece about visiting Keats' house in Rome for a new website called Trazzler (same dudes who started Twitter). She is a semi-finalist and if enough people wish list her trip, she could win a trip to NYC and $10,000. That would make her very happy, and believe you me, she is incredibly self-less so she really deserves it. PLEASE HELP HER OUT BY VOTING!

Here is what you do:

Go to http://www.trazzler.com/signup

1) Select "Sign in or sign up" from the top right corner

2) Select "No Facebook account? Sign up" (also on the right)

3) Create a username and password

4) Find my entry. The easiest way to do this is to look under "Your Browsing Mode" in the right column. At the bottom of the box, there's a search window that says "trip search." Put in a few words of my title:Communing with Keats over the Spanish Steps in Rome, Italy.

5) Add to your wishlist

She just came out here for a visit, which was rad. We are both tight on the benjamins right now, so it wasn't really a crazy, jam packed time. Just a lot of chilling and drinking of wine. Plus its been so gross near my house because of the big fire that you aren't really supposed to be outside anyway.

We did get our hands on the best board game ever though.