Friends

I am officially not looking forward to Monday.

I have just gotten back from spending all afternoon with my friends Paul, Dudley, Rachel, Thomas, and Susan and I will be, quite possibly, the most lonely person in the school. I might even cry.

My friends are so amazing. I had no idea that I missed them so much. No one walks with me to classes. No one talks to me during class. Sigh. There's nothing to distract from those that are trying to teach me and it's torture. How am I going to survive?

Just this Friday I was the outcast at a table of outcasts. How does that even work?! Either way I was lonely, I did not talk very much. My friends all go to the same school and it's not my school. Paul's house continues to amaze me and now he has a cat. Sigh. What I wouldn't give to have a cat and a nice big farmhouse on EIGHT acres. EIGHT. That's a lot.

My day was uncharacteristically busy. I woke up, helped to rip shingles off of a friend's house and move the dropped shingles to a large dumpster. Then I came home and took a shower to get rid of the accumulated dirt and then almost immediately after my mother sister and I were setting out to the abortion clinic to pray for an hour for 40 Days for Life. Then I met Paul, Dudley, Rachel, and Thomas at the Calder and we walked around a bit, Paul bought some cinnamon and sugar roasted almonds which he shared with the group. We went up as high as we could on the Ellis parking building and looked out over the roads and cars. Then Paul's mom picked the five of us up and took us back to Paul's house where Susan met us and we got pizza from Vitale's and we ate pizza and cookies and then we went to see all the animals they have, goats, chickens, rabbits, etc. Then we went out to their forest acres and gathered a ton of firewood for a bonfire later. After we'd put everything in a great big pile we played forest tag, which includes a ridiculous amount of tripping, stumbling, and screaming.

When we got tired of that we brought all the stuff back and jumped on their huge trampoline. Six people, one trampoline, a lot of people fell down. And of course jumping on the trampoline is just no fun unless somebody gets hurt, so pretty much all of us got kicked or stepped on in some way... some of us more than others.

It started to get dark and Paul was put on bonfire duty so he went to get some stuff and let Susan and Thomas spray the lighter fluid on the wood. Of course, we played with the fire a bit. ^^" Then we had s'mores that Susan's mom had brought. She brought like two S'mores making kits. Crackers, chocolate, marshmallows. You know the drill.

It was an absolutely spectacular and mind-boggling day and I am so pleased I could cry. Maybe, if I'm lucky, by the end of the school year I'll have made enough friends that I don't feel lonely anymore!!

Reaching out to all of you who are having trouble finding new friends, or who are having friend issues with people you already are acquainted with. <3 Love!