Humble Beginnings & Wide Eyes

I am sitting in my car in the Burger King parking lot in the middleofnowhere, TX stealing internet from the neighboring America's Best Value Inn, listening to the radio. (Katy Perry)

I just closed out my bank account at the local Walmart bank. I had to cash my monthly check and close out my account. As I feared, one of my usual tellers was working. I had to tell her this was my last visit to the bank. As we were finishing up our transaction she said she would miss me, to come back and see them if I ever came back to Texas. Now, I am sure she meant for any banking needs. But in that moment she meant me. She meant if I was ever in town I could see her again, and perhaps we would even embrace.

I am having a lot of trouble writing this post. I am too sad after going to the bank to write anything that wouldn't make you grab the tissues, a box of chocolates and let out some much needed tears. So I enlisted the help of my DEAR friend Lacey. After I reached out for help the following conversation ensued:

me: ugh Lacey I am not funny today!

L: lol...what?!

Me: I have to update my blog

L: so you have to update your blog but you aren't feeling funny?

Me: so im trying to write a post and its DEEPPRESSSIINNGGG!!!

L:Ok... put your head between your knees and take 5 deep breathes...

Me:really? because I will do it

L:lol DO IT!! this is your pep talk! :)

Me: ok done

L: now...do some jumping jacks like...5...we will stick with 5

Me: im in my car

L: then slap yourself in the face...lol

Me: done!

I really think I thought this would help because Lacey is a mom and mom's know everything and mom's don't lie. Except they do. A lot. I just recently figured out that the main characters in the Titanic DID have sex in that car. My mom told me they were just kissing. I watched the movie a little while back and I said this sentence out loud "it's so weird that are just kissi..OH MY GOSH!...THEY ARE NOT JUST KISSING!!!"

My eyes were opened to a new side of the world. A dark, scary one. Where moms lie and people who are not married have...relations. 

What is next? Reality TV is staged and scripted!?!? This is all too much.

100% Reason to Remember the Name

Rebecca here, I am the other half of the wondrousness that is the magpies.

Let us review the relationship between the other magpie and myself and how we obtained the nickname of "magpies."

We became friends sometime in March of 2010. 

One day I guess I decided she was cool and asked her to breakfast one morning, and that was it! We were instant friends.

We have been working in the same office and about 15 feet from each other for about a year and a half. Which, if you could see us, is hysterical. Why you ask?

Oh because we talk to each other on gmail chat ALL day long, call each other on our office phones, laugh extremely loud at each others jokes and belt out Taylor Swift as loud as we can. 

This is us, on the phone with each other.

Note my bright yellow hoodie. Clearly I wanted to be noticed. 

Moving on:

So, we were instant friends and it just kept getting better with time. We could talk about anything under the sun and laugh about it, dance in the car, sing out loud with our terrible singing voices and talk for hours about nothing, or maybe talk about the Kardashians, or anything E! related. We could go on road trips, make jokes about anything and finish each others sentences and last but not least, talk in half sentences and still know what each other was saying. 

(Side note: we are both from Michigan, therefore we have distinct midwestern accents that sometimes come out in their purest form. Which also causes us to talk extremely fast. You may know where i am going with this...)

Fast forward about 6 months and we are sitting in the office of a friend of ours.

She is busy working but we stopped in to say hello anyway. 

We sit down in her office and start chatting, about God knows what. (Our clothes? the weather?) 

Suddenly, we realize we are the only ones talking and completely cracking up at ourselves. We are laughing, talking in half sentences and chitter chartering so fast that it was clear that  this friend of ours was not following. So she says, "do you know that you two have just been talking for the past 15 minutes by yourselves? I wanted to see how long you could go without noticing but you two are like little magpies the way you talk!"

And there it is.

That is how our name came to be. 

I think we take pride in it. 

Magpies, forever funny, forever friends.