I Have Friends, You Just Can't See Them

Day Twenty Two- A picture of you with your friends

Ha,Ha! Funny question since I often joke (although it is not joking since it is completely TRUE) that my entire social calendar consists of Tuesday afternoon phone chats with my sister, Thursday lunch dates with my friend, Jen, and commenting on people's blogs. Yep, I am SUPER popular! Ha,Ha!

But even though I am mostly a hermit, I do think I have some great friends. You are just going to have to use your imagination to look at most of them. I don't get in pictures with my friends often, unless they are moving away and then I hurry and grab a shot with them. I probably have pictures of their kids though, if that counts?

I could go all the way back to college or further with this question, but I will assume this is asking who my friends are right now, or we could be here awhile.

I have showed you a picture with my original Wisconsin gang before. Heather, Margie and Katelin. My first official "group" of friends in my married life. I need to keep in better touch with all three of them, but I do still consider them some of my best friends.

There have been so many other Wisconsin friends who have moved away and since I don't have a picture of them, just pretend this is them. Hi guys, I miss you!

And now imagine you are looking at a picture of my friends from Primary. I have spent so much time with the women I serve with (currently and those who have been released) and yet I have spent very little time away from church with any of them. I don't know why, I guess relationships just take on certain roles, and it is hard to break through that. I am so grateful for these women though and the friendship I have with them. So pretend you are looking at a picture of me with them here.

And who could forget my bloggy friends. My only daily social interaction occurs right here in Blogland, so pretend this is a picture of me and you, blog friend.

I also have other church friends, and neighbors and people who have made me feel comfortable and at home here and have no idea. Pretend I hang out with them more and that there is a picture of them here as well.

And of course, the only person who ever calls me these days, my friend Jen. We have our lunch dates, field trips, and long late night phone calls and without that I would feel very alone here sometimes. I am grateful to Jen for stalking me (ha,ha). She knew I didn't answer the phone and that I was hard to get to know so she just called and called and called, and if I didn't answer she would call Seth at work to tell him to call me. Now you know how to be my friend, you have to be seriously persistent. But I am grateful that she didn't give up on me. Once everyone else moved away, I really needed a friend and it turns out that we have lots in common and usually find lots to laugh about. No big surprise though....she is MOVING in two months. I am sad and anticipate I will be quite lonely, but it has been a fun three years. And guess what? I even have a picture of us! Yay!

This was actually taken last weekend. Seth suggested that we go out while him and Mike took the kids somewhere (Cabellas). We laughed it off at first because the kids are basically appendages to us and we had no idea where to go without them. Jen started googling girls night ideas. That is how rarely we get out, we weren't even sure what people do in such situations. She found that one of her favorite 80's bands, The English Beat, was in concert in Milwaukee and called to plead with me to go. I had no idea who she was talking about. I love 80's music, but I have no idea who sang most of it, since that was the era of the one hit wonder. She sang me a few songs and I recognized all of them so I agreed to join her. We went to dinner and off to the show. We were easily the youngest people there, by a good 10 years. We found ourselves highly amused as the crowd danced their hearts out for 3 plus hours, in the old 80's Breakfast Club style. Some of the dancers were easily in their mid-60's but they never slowed down. We just observed. I am not young enough to be so uninhibited and since we were the only two that were sober, we didn't have liquid courage on our sides either. We were highly entertained though and laughed the whole evening away.

Phew, that killed two birds with one stone. I showed you my friend and caught up on my Girls Night from two weeks ago.

And lastly, as always, my bestest friends are still my siblings, who you have also seen before. Oh,oh, oh and of course Seth Johnson and the offspring, but that goes without saying right? Oh and wait, my Girls Weekend buddies too. I am sure I am forgetting people so just rest assured that I love you ALL, okay?

And what I have learned today is that I need to jump in front of the camera with my buddies once in awhile.