Tomorrow my best friend gets married

By toddj   Jun 18, 2010 11:13 pm
Tagged as #friends

It’s silly of me to be nervous about giving a toast when he’s getting married! But I can’t help it. It’s a very special occasion and I want to do all that I can to make it even better. Caleb and I go way back, and I was shocked and honored when he asked me to be his best man. 

It’s hard to believe that we go back so long actually.  We never really talked a whole lot, but we knew each other in middle school.  That’s 6th grade. We’ve now done 4 years of college together. How long is that? 11 years? Something like that. It wasn’t until after Christina and Caleb started dating that we got to know each other.  I discovered he was a fellow nerd and it was all lols from there.

It wasn’t even planned, but we had ALMOST every class together our freshman year of college.  I was glad, because I was expecting to not know anyone in my first class (I’m not sure why. I didn’t go very far).  But I remember walking in to my first class my first semester and feeling that bit of relief to see an old bro already in that networking class.  From then I would be invited to hang out at his house on Friday nights, playing Halo at unreasonable hours. His mom sort of eventually accepted me as one of her own, and a good thing too, because I’ve been to his house many times now.  She makes me feel at home. 

I guess you could say I’ve grown to love them as if they were a second family. With Ronnie’s taste in comic books and video games, and Matt’s ability to produce awesome music, there is never a lack of things to talk about when I’m over there.  Even Christina has warmed up to me a bit (I think?).

Caleb, I love you man. I know you and Christina will make each other happy for a long time coming. You’re good for each other and I hope that both of you will ask me if you ever need anything.  Moving, painting, raking that god forsaken field where leaves gather at unnatural numbers, or whatever it may be.  I got yer back.