Friends Come, Friends Go, and sometimes.... they come back!

There's been an awful lot of coming and going by many of our friends lately:

Lora & Omar moved from SF down to Menlo Park, Vivian left SF to go to school in NYC, and Paula & Reeves have left for Dublin, Ireland! All of these moves happened within a couple months! It's rockin' our world a little bit!

Back in the Winter of 2001/2002, I had another set of 3 friends move away. Philip left for Houston, Christopher moved to Australia, and Todd left for the Central Valley (he and his family later moved to New Jersey!). I remember how sad I was that so many of my close friends were moving away - again, within just a few months of each other.

The good news is, Christopher moved back to SF last year, Todd and his family moved back to the Central Valley last year (at least closer than New Jersey!), and Philip moved back to San Francisco last week! I'm thrilled to have all of these guys back!

Perhaps this shows some kind of trend: maybe our friends who just left will come back in a few years. (Although, I'm pretty sure that we've lost Omar & Lora permanently to the 'burbs...)

When my first wave of friends moved away in 2002, I joked that I was running out of gay friends. (oops - for the record, Todd is straight.) Well, now my gay friends are back (imagine that!) and our straight friends are moving away! We can't seem to strike a balance :)