people i love wednesday

baby eric. shoeshine. habrash. i so rarely call this boy by his real name. we met at an 8th grade catholic school student council camp (very specific) and he actually HATED me. he was the super cool piano playing hottie boy and i was unfortunately the overly zealous weird girl everyone avoided. it was a rough week. i knew him later in the 8th grade year as the maroon shirt boy- a total band hunk who came to our school with jazz band or something. in freshman year, we were at the same high school and i actually got to know him better. (thank god he didn't remember me from camp). by sophomore year we were homies. we went to every school dance together from sophomore year on and always managed to were some pretty sweet costumes. (in our case, they weren't just outfits. costumes is definitely the appropriate word.) we also directed our own freshman sophomore play together senior year, acted together in the school musical, and did a crap ton of school projects together.

aside from being one of my closest guy friends and fellow aquabats enthusiast, eric is also an INCREDIBLE artist studying industrial design as CMU. dude's work seriously blows me away. he's incredible. he made a bowl for his dad out of an old tree stump! a beautiful wooden bowl! amazing. he also has excellent taste in music, a sweet house in pittsburgh, super nice parents, some skateboarding skills, mad dance moves (including 'zombie piano'), and an incredibly hobo chic wardrobe. homie makes some mean pumpkin pies too. totally in love with baby eric. so glad to have that homie around.