make friends

The Uplifter: This woman’s favorite word: yes. You could tell her you’re trading your six-figure income for a career in offtrack betting, and she’d barely pause before yelping “Go for it!” Don’t you need someone who looks past the love handles to notice the extraordinarily gorgeous you?
The Travel Buddy: When the hotel in St. Lucia is a bust, one characteristic becomes all-important: flexibility. This agreeable companion need not be the girl you traded pinkie swears with on the playground; it’s enough that she’s comfortable with quiet (between gabfests) and is a teensy bit mischievous (as in tequila after midnight).
The Truth Teller: Intent is what separates the constructive from the abusive. Once you’ve established that the hard news is spoken in love (not in jealousy or malice), you’d be smart to seek out this woman’s perspective.
The Girl Who Just Wants to Have Fun: One Saturday a pal and I — and yes, we’re both over age 12 — pored over every glitter lip gloss in a drugstore aisle for an entire 45 minutes. Forget the crisis download (for that, see the Uplifter); this partnership is about spontaneous good times.
The Unlikely Friend: “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive,” Anaïs Nin wrote. My friends — some twice my age, others half, some rich, others homeless, some black like me, others Korean, Mexican, Caucasian — have added richness to my life that only variety can bring.
I’m with her.

Talked to husband’s friend, daughter’s god father and now have some one else to contact…. to take the plunge is going to be a test.
Also talked to someone about reiki…
And made the effort to visit an old friend last week.. getting there slowly.

I’ve just developed a friendship with my dental nurse… who would have thought you would meet someone that you could call your friend whilst having your teeth drilled LOL!.
We’re making plans to go to the Gold Class movies next week.

a book about how to start conversations and make friends, just need situations to try it out now.

Developing a friendship with my husband’s best female friend
Contacted my daughter’s godfather’s girlfriend to try there
Thinking how to spark a friendship up with the wife of one of my husband’s old friends we hardly ever see because he works FIFO out we lost contact
Going to contact an old work mate.

Lost one rather than make one. lost one that I had made because our schedules conflict and I can’t meet up with her at a time that suits her schedule – so the hunt is on again to find and make new friends

Today I took my son for a play date to MacDonalds. We meet a new friend we think in Izabella and Cameron. We are going to meet again next Wednesday and then we are having the family day on Sunday December the 10th as per my last post.

Baby step number one on the way to achieving this goal!

I remember years ago saying to my sister that I was never going to meet anyone if I never went out and only hours later a Foxtel salesman knocked on my door and asked me out on a date.

Anyway I realised that I can’t make friends unless I try – they aren’t going to just knock on my door (or are they) – so I posted an open invite on a parenting forum suggesting that we make it a family xmas party at a local kids playground.

So far one response and 35 views so in about two weeks I’ll report back on how it went. No guarantees that I’ll make a friend out of it but at least I’ve put myself out there!!

Can I cheer myself on this one LOL