08-29-23 Happy Birthday Dear friend!
It is my first best friend’s birthday today. She has caught up and joined the 60 club. The first connections are pure. I believe that when we are children we choose friends that are soul mate friends. Life may send us in different directions but there is still a love that is there.. forever. We were close for so many years and then our own insecurities and peers in high school got in the middle. I can now admit that I was sad not to have been in her wedding party but I also didn’t have her in any of mine, so… lol. Today I thought of her often and the memories we made as young girls in male worshipped families. I remember her clearly wanting to be a boy, and I have always described myself as my father’s oldest son. Good thing now, I think, that neither of us grew up in a world where we would have made that choice permanent. We are both strong, intelligent, high functioning women.. and it all began in a strange little suburb of a suburb of Vancouver. There is a large part of me that wishes we lived closer, but I have to wonder if I am actually very good at maintaining closeness. It is easier to pop in and catch up on my friends. Or, maybe that is self protection. Part of me stays aloof so I can’t be hurt.
For example.. I decided to join the FaceBook dating app and have had a couple interesting conversations. One has gone on a few days with a guy in Kelowna. We talked about things and seemed to be getting along. He requested switching to messenger…. (Yep, should have seen this coming) and I took a day to decide, sure, at least I would see his profile. The first thing I see is his likes of ‘Innocent babes’ sites and then he says he’d like to see more of me. Done, blocked, sigh. There is a reason I am so jaded. I shall have to wait to meet someone in person, a friend of a friend, someone vetted.
I did have a good meeting with the Ed Fest crew today and brought my screen to be used. Tracy came over with her ladder so I could check where my roof peeled back from the wind/pergola damage. Thankfully it did not leave access for rain, as we are to get a bunch tomorrow. I will have to fix it before snow and ice though.
I finally got all the documents requested to the broker and she has sent in the package. I hope to hear soon that I have an appointment at the notary to sign it off.
I loved the timing that I finished the first of the puzzles she gave me.. today!
triumphgal 