Saturday marked one-month until my 30th birthday. A group of friends and I were talking about this over the weekend, and one asked me if I had done everything I wanted to do in my 20’s. I thought about that for a minute and my answer was “I don’t know.”

It is hard to say if I did everything I had set out to do over the last decade, because really, there were many points when I wanted different things.

There are few things in the world that I cherish more than trusted, close friends.

We all have dozens, if not hundreds, of acquaintances, some of which we may even consider"‘friends," but the bond that exists between absolute true friends is something that is hard to come by.

I have a lot of good friends – people that I socialize with regularly, go to the beach with, those that I always keep in touch with. They are amazing people that I am glad to have as friends, but there are only about three or four people that I consider truly my most cherished friends.

I have four or five young nieces and cousins and I have trouble getting their names right. My mom gets mad at me, saying “you better be nice to them – when you’re old they will be the only people around to take care of you” (thanks, mom).

It’s not my fault that they are all girls, they all look alike, and they all have obnoxiously similar names (like Kayley, Kayla, McKendra, McKenzie). I do have a little brother and I usually get his name right, except on particularly flustered occasions – I once called him by our dog’s name.

They say that when it rains, it pours. Well with El Nino visiting Southern California this year, that statement has never been more true. Yeah the rain makes things complicated (no one in Southern California can drive in it) but one thing you can't deny is that the rains wash away all the dirt and grime. It got me to thinking... don't we all need to wash away the past and start with a clean slate?

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