No more ifriends

It’s official.  I no longer consider these people my ifriends.

Since I’ve been making a concious effort to attend the HO’s (hang outs), I’ve been given the opportunity to chat (in real life) with them and get to know them better and have decided that they are now friends and not ifriends.  It’s funny how one event in your life (planning a wedding) can introduce you to such a wonderful group of ladies.  Ladies that are so supportive yet so willing to tell it to you straight, if you are clearly being irrational.  And we’ve all had our days! 

I’m glad to have stumbled upon this group of amazing women and was able to form friendships with them – granted, the friendships are still forming and growing but they are friendships nonetheless!

Oh, and I suppose I should introduce my friends 

Top from left to right:  Krista, Sarah, Jenica, Emily, Sara, Stacey, Evie, Tracey

Bottom from left to right:  Danica, Sheila, Jess, Ang, Jessie and yours truly

BW3 HO

I know that I’m late in talking about this, but whatever.  It’s my blog and I can do what I want! 

I work in the corporate office of a retail company.  Every Christmas season, we (meaning corporate employees) are encouraged to work in the stores for at least 1 or 2 days.  We get the option of whether we want to work out on the sales floor or whether we want to work behind the scenes in the stockroom.  I always choose the stockroom.  Since the store that I have worked at in the past was closed, I had to choose a new store to work at.  I wasn’t too thrilled at this – I don’t like change.  I like walking into the familiar.  What did excite me however, is that this gave me the opportunity to meet some friends that I had meet through the internet (the knot) and have gotten to know better through a facebook group that we are all members of.

Top (left to right):  Jessie, Sheila, Jenica

Bottom (left to right):  Danica, Emily, Me

Being that I had never met any of them, I was quite nervous, but in retrospect, I don’t know why.  Conversation was NEVER strained and I think we were laughing about 85% of the time.  I had so much fun with these awesome ladies, well, that is until the live trivia crap started.  It was a blast and I seriously couldn’t believe how quickly 3 hours passed.  I can’t wait for the next HO that I can actually attend (I live an hour from where the HO’s normally take place so I can’t always get to them).

The Great K-Town GTG

Tonight, I am meeting 2 friends that I’ve met on the internet while planning my wedding last year.  I’ve already met Stacey (who is a fellow K-town resident) when we did the great Crinoline Exchange of 2007 but I’ve never met Steph, at least not in real life.  I’m really excited.  This is my first step to actually meet some of my iFriends (with the exception of Stacey).  Since most of them live in Milwaukee, Madison or the surrounding areas, there aren’t many opportunities to attend the GTG’s (get togethers).

 I’m sure we’ll have great fun this evening while we have a few drinks and eat some buffalo wings at the local Buffalo Wild Wings.  I brought the camera, so I’m sure there will pictures to come!