well. she's gone. not quite gone, but kirst is on the road right now, traveling back to her family in minnesota, and the house is quiet for the first time since thursday night.
i forget how much i love spending time with her. this was especially nice, because it was the first time in a decade that we got to spend time without the kiddies around, demanding her attention too. she was ALL MINE, and that was great.
i think it was 1988 or so that we met. she had a blueberry colored long shirt on, matching socks smooshed just perfectly up over her black leggings, and a million jangly bracelets that looked like they came from some foreign land. they did. MINNEAPOLIS, or the big glamourous city, as i thought of it back then. she was cool, and i was not! ha. until i became her friend, and then i was a little also.
anyway, somehow we have kept in touch all these years!! 20 years is a long time! always 4 or 5 hours apart, and maybe only once or twice a year of actual contact. but lifetime friends are lifetime friends, no matter what. so we catch up, and we talk talk talk, and we go away again, each time with a little bigger chunk of each other engrained within us. it's good.
naturally, we shopped on friday. it's the kind of shopping i usually only do with one or two people i know. CRAFT shopping, mostly, although i did get a new winter coat, and we each hit the $1 section at target pretty hard. whew. fun.
then, saturday was Girl Saturday. it was neat to share kirst with the cool artsy girls in my life here. a good mess was had by all. i wish i could share more fruit for my labor, but i got too excited to actually make anything. well, i made one thing.
the funnest part was laughing as we read thru the old books that kris brought, looking for fun phrases to collage. i made a little collage, but the other girls seemed to have better stuff than mine to show for their time. next time i will actually think about what i am doing. oh. and photograph the good stuff that the others make!
schwew, fabulous weekend. now i'm going outside to mow my lawn ON VETERANS Day (or nearly so)....wow!
happy sunday everybody!
4 comments:
Does look like you had a great weekend. Everyone needs a time like that once in awhile.
Hey! Glad you had fun with your crafty girls!
Is it hard to work today?
Wow! That looks like my kind of weekend! Glad you had so much fun, you deserve that! Love your house colors by the way, you are so talented in so many ways!
Hi Bob, You ar too sweet. I can't even stand how much fun we had. I can't wait to post your gifts to me. That will be probably tomorrow! They needed there own blog spot! I miss you. K~
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