I love lists

The post about making friends resonates. My husband and I work from home, we have no kids, and we’ve moved a bunch in the last year or so. It’s been tough to make friends, but you know what we’ve done? We’ve been proactive. We talk to EVERYONE. The day we got to New Orleans we jumped out of the car to talk to the neighbors and ask them what vet they take their dogs to, because we needed a vet. When we dropped off the U-haul my husband got the numbers of a cute young couple that lives about a mile away, and made plans with them. Like, asked them to go to brunch with us the next weekend! When we stopped in a bar for happy hour, we sat at the bar and talked to the cute bartender.. We asked her to be our friend, and she said yes. It turns out her boyfriend works from home too, and they have a hard time making friends. And then we make plans, we follow up, we try to be consistent. I sound like a dork admitting this, but we even signed up for a cake decorating class at Joy’s Bakehouse, because we figured we might make some new friends. It’s not always easy for me to make friends. I can be introverted and tend to like to stay home more often than go out. But, I’ve really been forcing myself. And, I have to admit, we have a lot of cool new friends and we’re always on the lookout for more.