We'll always have "Glee"

For today's Friendship Friday post I’ve decided to shake things up a bit and talk about a relatively new friend.

I met S.S. online over the summer…well, sort of. I had posted to the listserv for our new town that we would be moving here soon and that we were in town for a weekend and needed to make arrangements for Shabbos lunch. Her husband sent me a very friendly reply welcoming us to the community. (He wasn’t able to have us over for lunch at that time, but it was nice that he reached out.) We e-mailed and wrote on each others’ Facebook walls for a while. I added S.S. as a friend because if her husband was this friendly, I assumed she would be, as well. We didn’t really talk much at first, but then “Glee” started up for the fall. She posted something about a character she liked and I wrote back about being a “Glee” fan. It was an instant bond from that point on. We e-mailed a lot and then I had her over for lunch during Chol Hamoed Sukkot. After that, we got together at our favorite pizza place and brought our husbands to meet each other. She would also come over to watch “Glee” whenever it was possible.

S.S. is 8 years younger than me. I like to tease her about how she makes me feel “ancient.” I do enjoy showing her movies that she was too young for when they originally came out, or ones she may not have heard of otherwise. And now that “Glee” is back, she knows she’s welcome to watch it at my place as often as she’s available. We also send each other everything we can find in relation to "Glee" (online videos, articles, etc.) She has a boy close in age to my younger son, but my older son also likes playing with him and treats him like a little brother too. We still get together at our favorite pizza place from time to time. (Who can resist those cheese fries?!?) She and her husband have been talking about making aliyah (moving to Israel). I know it’s something very special to do and it would be selfish for me to want her to stay. I’m just fortunate that we get to hang out a lot until that time. She has become a great friend and I’ve enjoyed getting to know her so far. I know that no matter when aliyah happens with their plans to move, she and I will always have “Glee.”