I'm luckier than most people. Some people collect toys, games, or maybe books. I'm lucky, I collect people that become really close friends.

Seven years ago, god where does the time go, a very special young lady began working with me at my job. I didn't know it then but she would become very important to me. She didn't drive and I didn't know all the bits and pieces of her life. She lived close to thirty minutes from where we worked and on more than one occasion I gave her a lift home. We became friends. Then her grandmother died and our worlds sort of collided. I was there for her and supported her.

I watched as she grew up, came into her own, and became a beautiful young woman in her own right. I have been lucky to call her friend. She returned the favor when my mother passed away and she dropped everything to be at my side and support me.

At work people swore we were dating. Tracey ran with the joke and began calling me husband. What is funny is she has been dating the same guy since she was 16. After many years, he finally proposed and she accepted. The thing is we are more like father and daughter than husband/wife anyway.

With all that has happened with my father I was depressed by having to cancel her visit down. My "wife" isn't one to give up easily. Knowing she can't stay here, she simply told her fiancee they were coming down and is renting a room for the weekend. While down she is here to show me her ring and figure out if I am going to be walking her down the aisle (which I've told her should be done by her mother) or acting as best man (which is something I think her fiancee might have someone else for) but I know I'll end up in the wedding party and I couldn't be happier for her.

So even when everything else is falling apart around me, sometimes good news is enough to turn your day around and just make you smile. Hope you are all having a good one.