Alicia Romero

I'm missing you like crazy.  I find myself fighting back tears all the time.  You are everywhere!  Who would have know that your even here in Japan!  So many times I've wanted to pick up the phone and call you just to have one of our wonderful chats that leaves us both busting a gut with laughter.  I like to close my eyes and revisit a memory, I can see you talking to me and hear your voice.  You and I had a special bond with so many inside jokes that no one but us would find as funny.  Yesterday I was going through some things and found last years calendar, it was open to April and "Vegas Trip" was large as day!  We had such a great time, something I will forever be greatful for.  I know the pain of your loss will never officially go away.  Right now I am having such a hard time.  I miss you so much!  I love you.

The simple turn on of the television and there are our shows!!!!  I know that you are watching up in the heavens and just saying "what". Confusion on "Lost".  All the drama on Desperate Housewives and Brothers and Sisters and OMG, American Idol :-).  I watch TV and think of you.  But that is not my only thought of you, I think about you daily.   I wish you where here so we can "recap" our shows, what I missed, what you had missed.  Sometimes it just does not seem real to me, just a really bad dream. As time passes, it just does not get easier, I miss you... I always will.  Love you and God Bless you my friend  

Alicia,
I have to say you were an awesome person and I find myself thinking of you more. I know we didn't agree on everything (such as the Chargers are good) but we did agree on the love of the game. I know your sitting on your cloud and looking down on your love ones. I just wanted you to know that the lives you have touched will never be the same again. I started this memory to be a fun one and find myself missing you even more. So I can only say be the guardian that you have always been and remember you will live on forever.......

And just this once I will say the Chargers are good!

When i think about the memories that alicia left me it brings a smile to my face. I remember one time aroung halloween i was telling her about a problem i had not finding the halloween custome i wanted and i had told her how ive been to every party city there was and she volunteered to take me to her neck of the woods to see if i can find it. I waited for her after work and i followed her, with so much traffic i was scared to get lost so she called me and stayed on the phone with me the whole entire time through traffic. and we were talking about the kind of car i wanted to get and other silly things. When we got the store we were trying on funny shoes and wearing funny things making each other laugh. When we looked at clock it was getting late for her to pick up her little ones and i was going to go back home but she invited me over to her house so i went.  We picked up her kids and when we got to her house she starting making chicken quesadillas, which by they way they were so good!.. we got to talking for like 4 hours before i knew it was dark out and i had to go. when i got home she called me to check if i got home ok. whether she invited me over to her house to watch the chargers game to her cook outs. it was all fun!.. everytime i would help her with her work she would tell me "you rock in the free world"!!.. she was so much fun!..since me and her daughter are tocallas! (it just means that her daughter and me have the same name) she will always say my name was beautiful!..

thank you alicia for all those great memories that you left me!... i will always have you in my heart!..

Words cannot express how much I miss you and what a positive impact you made on my life.  Your simply beautiful inside and out.  Our friendship was unspoken, I knew that you were always there for me and my family.  I am so hopeful that you knew that I would always be there for you and your family.  I have memories of Alicia that I will always cherish.  My Monday Morning Grumpy friend, who I would tease by calling her "Alice" every monday morning, Oh the dirty looks I would get, only if I could continue to get them!!!!.  When we received an "OA" about "possible" inappropriate touching in the office, we spent all day touching, hugging and even kissing (on the cheek!!) while all the time threatening each other that we were going to go to human resources if the other would not stop!!!. Alicia's humor would brighten my day.  Alicia was one of the only friends who enjoyed my soups, not because it was gross, but because I was "creative" and she would be game at trying anything, the best part is that she would often like my soups and ask for the recipes!!!. I will miss our daily talks about "our shows" and will be reminded of her with the simple turn of the television.  Our yearly christmas party snapshots will always be close to my heart. Alicia: a wonderful and loving mom, wife, friend, co-worker, sister and daughter.  Her family was the most important thing in her life. Alicia lived a beautiful quality of life, even though selfishly I wish she would have lived a quantity of life. My memories and prayers are endless.... God Bless you and your family, today and always...