And this post goes out to.......

Before I even started darkening the doorway of the blogging world, I have been a "star"(lol) on one of the faithful members of the blogging world so I think it only fair that I devote this whole post to her.
I gotta tell ya, she's quite the gal who can put up with such a bold person like I am. My first impression of her was that she was a snob. (Of course the fact that she was new to my ward, not to mention the island, never crossed my mind that she would be shy.) See, I first saw her at our ward party about three years ago: while her husband was walking around greeting and meeting new people, she was sitting at their table not even making eye contact with anyone, hence the snob notion came to mind. I, on the other hand, was in some way anxious to meet a new person and making new friends but of course I can be so dense sometimes that it completely escaped my mind that I should make the first move and welcome her to our ward.
The first real encounter, as in communication encounter, was at a RS Home Enrichment night. I was asked to teach the ladies a really fun and cute art/craft project and there were two or three other tables set up for other projects that night and she chose my table and project to be her first visit that night. She turned out to be the fastest learner at the table and before the night was over, she was promoted to being my assistant (wink, wink). I think the second official time we met again was at one of my son's baptism and then later on at ward camp. I tell ya, once we started chatting, we couldn't stop, we had so much in common. (Of all the friends I have, she was the only one who like me does not like housecleaning. You can see why she's my friend? I'm not saying that we're slob, we just don't see the point in spending hours cleaning our houses when ten seconds later, the house will end up looking like it was before we started cleaning.)
So, at camp, we got to know each other really well, enough for me to ask her to come to my ladies' night out. Our kids we found out are really close in age and have become really close friends too.
Anyhoo, moving on....we decided we would get together at her house to make some fun arts/crafts projects for Christmas. One of the projects required velcro so my new friend volunteered to pick up the velcro from the store since she will be in town. So here we were at her house, all our materials we needed for our projects laid out on her table when she pulled out the velcro, looking very proud of herself for her contribution to our projects. Ok, the projects we had were all paper products and would need gluing and guess what kind of velcro she has? Yes, a sew-on velcro. You see where I'm going with this, right? We needed the glue-on velcro since we were working with paper products. Well, all I could do was just stare at the velcro, with different thoughts going through my mind and all I could think about was how in the world are we going to use sew on velcro on papers? So of course me with my uncontrolled tongue blurted out..."English is your first language, isn't it?", before I pointed out that she had bought the wrong kind of velcro. I know, very RUDE of me but I just couldn't help myself. But being the sweet person that she is, she bursts out laughing..now you see why I like her? She doesn't mind laughing at herself. I did feel bad for being so bold and rude like that so when I got home, I told my husband what I said. He looked at me with total unbelief on his face, shaking his head and mumbling something about how I could be so bold as to say something so insulting to someone I have just befriended.
Well, a couple days later we got together at my home and she told me how she told her family about what I said and her family thought that was the funniest thing they have ever heard. My husband didn't think it was funny. To this day, whenever I said I'm going to my friend's house or she is coming over, my hubby would smile and cringe at the same time. He smiles because he thinks my spending time with my new friend will keep me out of trouble (as if I'm a troublemaker), some of her goodness will rub off on me and he is always hoping I may learn a thing or two from her. But he cringes at the same time because he is always worried I might say something incredibly rude and insulting.
So here goes.....Girl in a Swirl. Here's to you.