To a very good friend of mine...

Happy Birthday Derek Stucki!

I can't say enough about how much Derek's friendship means to me.

But I guess I can try...

D is for dedicated. I swear, he's been working on the same project for the entire semester and he says he's still only half done with it...I would have just changed my major haha

E is for elusive. I don't think I have ever seen anybody elude drama or just about anything else as well as Derek does.

R is for receptive. He is always willing to listen to me when I haven't been able to elude the drama like he has.

E is for Extremely smart...I ran out of E words. One day he had me read a few pages from his C++ book. I went upstairs and cried because it made my head hurt so much haha...just kidding.

K is for kind. Everyone that knows Derek knows that he is pretty much the nicest person you've ever met. He has an opinion about everything, but he has a very nice way of telling you that you're wrong ;)

I am so blessed to have a friend like Derek in my life. 

He is one of the few people I can say is just legitimately good without having to try.

I'm pretty sure he's the reason I'm alive right now (if you don't know why, see this post.)

And let's not deny it, he's always good for a laugh:

Always gets his rear end in a shot.

For Halloween he was a flasher...which meant he wore a long jacket that covered his clothing and then opened up his coat to show off his GOTCHA sign...

Happy birthday Derek!