**HaPPy BiRTHdaY LadYTee!!!!*

Today...

I said today!

Today, the bestest best friend in the whole wide world was born!

My best friend Tammie, aka the infamous LadyTee


Happy Birthday LadyTee!!!
LadyTee turns the big 42 today!!!

This year is the 30th anniversary of our friendship!

I've actually known LadyTee since I was 9 years old. She was 11 at the time. We were in the school's summer camp together. My very first memory of her was when we had a day trip to Duncan Park for a day of swimming in their big pool.

I was in the pool with my friends and LadyTee was walking around the pool with a towel on her head, hands on her hips, talking trash "Don't ya'll be splashing water up on me!"

I remember asking someone. "Who is that? Why she yelling so much?"

Someone said, "That's Tammie. She's not swimming today. She's always yelling."

I just watched the rail thin girl walk around the pool, doing a patrol of some sort. I thought that was odd. I considered her "grown", i.e., she didn't have to swim with us little kids.

Who would've known, that over 30 years later that she would be such an important and influential figure in my life?
I love you, Big Girl!!!!
And there are always some funny LadyLee-LadyTee stories.
This is the last one that had us laughing hard:
I was sitting in the lab a few months ago, weighing out a spinach sample for analysis. I had my cell phone nestled between my shoulder and ear, yacking on my cell phone with LadyTee. I don't remember what we were talking about, but we were laughing down about something.
In walks my boss, The Darth Sista. And she's talking about something. Of course I paid her no mind.

"Hold on," I said, when my boss kept standing there looking at me. I gave my boss the hard side-eye. "I'm on the phone."
"You need to get off that phone, LadyLee!" my boss yelled. "You can't talk on the phone and get work done at the same time. Get off of the phone."
"What are you talking about?" I said. "I'm working just fine. I'm weighing spinach."
"You can't do that and talk on the phone at the same time."
"What?"
"Get off the phone," she ordered through clinched teeth.
"Tam, hold on. Cuz this broad is tripping."
I looked at Darth Sista. "Let me tell you something. This here some spinach. And this here is the BFF of 30 years on the phone. I don't care 'bout no spinach, man."
Darth Sista continued fussing.
I continued talking trash about the unimportance of spinach.

"Man, you better get on somewhere with all that noise. I'm talking on this phone!!!!"

"Drama, girl!" my boss yelled. "You are so full of drama!"

Let's say, I didn't get off that phone. Darth Sista left the lab in a huff.
NO way was I getting off that phone. I was talking to my BEST friend. And when I saw my boss later that day in her office, I was STILL talking trash.
(And I am CONSTANTLY doing things to get wrote up and sent home. They refuse to do so, lol)

I LOVE MY BEST FRIEND!!!!!!
And I dedicate this song to you, Tam... Some classic Patti CLASSIC Patti, the long convoluted version that you can barely understand, lol.
"You are my friend" by Patti... everytime this song comes up on my IPOD, I screech it out all loud right along with Patti, and I get all teary eyed...


Here are the lyrics:
You are my friend, I never knew it 'til then My friend, my friend You hold my hand, You might not say a word But I see your tears when I show my pain You're--- my, my friend I never knew it 'til then My friend I feel your love, When you're not near It helps me make it knowing you care The thought of you helps me carryon When I feel all hope is gone I see the world wit brand new eyes Your love has made me realize My future looks bright to me, Oh because you are my friend Da, da, da, da (ad lib) I've been looking around and you were here all the time. Da, da, da (ad lib) I've been around and around and around and around Da, da, da I've been looking around and you were here all the time (Repeat) Yes, yes, yes... THAT'S OUR SONG RIGHT THERE!!!
So Happy Birthday, LadyTee...
We usually spend our birthdays together. But they have something else planned today. So I'm taking off on Thursday, and Me and LadyTee are gonna celebrate allllll day.
Yes, I've already talked to my boss about this. LOL.
LadyTee, enjoy your day! Because you do your job well: you ARE the best bestest friend in the world.
You've done your job well over the last 30 years. We've laughed together, cried together... you've given me advice, told me when I was wrong.
You've threatened my boyfriends when they were tripping!
(I've heard a few times "Girl, you better calm your friend down! She talk a lot of sh**! You better shut that ol' skinny girl up!!!")
LOL!! Yep, LadyTee talk trash like she got a gun and about to shoot a sucka!
YOU'VE DONE IT ALL WELL, HONEY!
You're the best BFF in the world.
Happy Birthday!
Love LadyLee:)