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Aug. 15th, 2006 04:51 pmI have been really happy recently with the amount of time I'm getting to spend with friends, either IMing, calling or in person. I've been trying to be proactive about inviting people to do things, even taking chances with people I don't know that well, which is not easy for me. And also I've been trying hard to carve out time for people if they invite me to do things. It's been fruitful. I bought a new dayplanner today and I realized that I had a lot of things to put in it besides work and it's making me smile.
One of the things in my planner that's making me smile is that today on my way out of a meeting with my boss downtown, I ran into an old friend of mine and made a date for drinks next Tuesday. He and I used to work together back in 92-93 and were were part of a group of friends that got pretty solid at the time, but in the intervening dozen years we all drifted apart. He's in touch with one of those friends who was my roommate for a year back then, so he's going to pass my number on to her also. He lives in OKC now and it was just sheer chance that he had a meeting the same place I did today. I ran into him a couple of years ago and we had lunch once, but I was in a lot of turmoil at the time and wasn't in a place where I could really keep up my end of a friendship. I'm glad I am now. Talking to him again just lifted my spirits and I'm going to try hard to do my share of keeping in touch.
Ok, almost off work and it's my first full payday from this job, so I'm going out to stock up on groceries and little items I've been putting off buying. I put a full tank of gas in my car today for the first time in weeks and it's just a relief to have the cash to buy what I need to buy without worrying about it. Tomorrow night I think I'm going to take the kids out and spend a little on them at the bookstore or something fun. I've been the penny-pinching mom for so long now that they probably won't know who I am. :-)
One of the things in my planner that's making me smile is that today on my way out of a meeting with my boss downtown, I ran into an old friend of mine and made a date for drinks next Tuesday. He and I used to work together back in 92-93 and were were part of a group of friends that got pretty solid at the time, but in the intervening dozen years we all drifted apart. He's in touch with one of those friends who was my roommate for a year back then, so he's going to pass my number on to her also. He lives in OKC now and it was just sheer chance that he had a meeting the same place I did today. I ran into him a couple of years ago and we had lunch once, but I was in a lot of turmoil at the time and wasn't in a place where I could really keep up my end of a friendship. I'm glad I am now. Talking to him again just lifted my spirits and I'm going to try hard to do my share of keeping in touch.
Ok, almost off work and it's my first full payday from this job, so I'm going out to stock up on groceries and little items I've been putting off buying. I put a full tank of gas in my car today for the first time in weeks and it's just a relief to have the cash to buy what I need to buy without worrying about it. Tomorrow night I think I'm going to take the kids out and spend a little on them at the bookstore or something fun. I've been the penny-pinching mom for so long now that they probably won't know who I am. :-)