Make Friends

THIS idiot at church was talking about how it's important to make friends (along with meeting God & changing the world - balanced relationships are vital).   He's right - I've been realizing that good friends ARE hard to find & very important (despite writing a while ago that good help is not hard to find - there is a difference!).  To be honest, I think I would rather have good friends over good help - but for some reason I have the best of both worlds!  I've been fortunate to have some quality people around me - so thanks to all my friends (whether you are mentioned in this blog or not).

We had Expert & his two kids over for lunch after church (report card time for his wife).  We hung out a bit, caught up about life, and he also drew a little sketch of how to build my front wall of my house (and pointed out that my floor system design from the engineer was flawed for our bonus room - I've got a call to make tomorrow!  These are the things that people with a clue notice!).  Thanks to him, I'll have that all re-designed ahead of time so I won't get irritated stumbling upon it when it's 'go time'.

Saturday (yesterday) was suppose to be spent building, but I was behind with my work so that took up the morning & evening.  Over the lunch hour we went to go get a few quick groceries at a bulk store and ended up buying laminate for the master bedroom and our oven!  The oven is a funny story.  To make a long story short, Super Lu has been watching online for it & in store for 3.5 months - only to have me accidentally stumble upon one of only 3 in the store (the lady there was shocked that they actually got some in - apparently they are a hot commodity in the chain of stores).  So then we had to phone our bank from the store to get our point of purchase amount increased, buy it, find a truck, and find a place to store this stuff.  Friends helping out again!

So here's to friends!
I.B.