~ Another Successful Blog Buddy Meeting ~

by Tina~in_ut

"Another Successful Blog Buddy Meeting!" Ugh! I can’t stand hearing that. I always think, “Big deal! So two people (or more) were able to get their act together and be in the same place at the same time!” To me, success is meeting, leaving each others' company, making plans to get together again, and actually doing it! Anyone can meet. Not everyone wants to meet up again. kwim?

I’ve been very fortunate. I’ve only met one person that I don’t need to see again and she isn’t even on this blog. I’m sure she feels the same way. Although pleasant, we just didn’t hit it off. And that’s fine. We tried. It's okay to find out that you don't get along with someone. Not everyone is going to become best friends.

I’ve been lucky enough to meet some ladies that I can’t wait to get together with again and there are still others that I am just dying to meet. I’ve gotten together with Zona four times. I’ve stayed at her house and she at mine. I’ve had lunch with Mek twice. I spent 8 out of 9 days of my vacation in Hawaii hanging out with super cool Kgrl. And I got to spend three fun-filled days with Dianne_not_in_Denver_at_the_time. I really enjoyed my time with all of them. (Please don't ask them how they felt.....that's for another blog!) I want to go back to Hawaii before summer and I really want a nonstop flight from here to Madison and College Station airports to magically appear to make it easier for me to fly there, among other places.

One of the funniest things to me about meeting some of you is that I wasn't nervous......or THAT nervous. When I met Mek, it was like we were childhood friends who hadn't seen each other for a while. When I went to Zona's house, I hopped on the plane, got in the car, and didn't even think of being nervous until I was walking up to her door. That was short lived!!!! She had a picture of my favorite person on it! I laughed so hard, I forgot to hug her when she answered the door. Every time I've seen her since, it's like we are sisters who haven't seen each other in a long time and can't wait to catch up. Kgrl and I are such opposites. I don't think that we would ever have met if we lived in the same area. We wouldn't have hung out at the same places, so I'm very grateful that I met her on the blog. She is an amazing, funny person. The poor thing.....I wasn't nervous at all with her. We kinda took her by surprise at work and I jumped outta the car and gave her a big hug! Now Di.....when Zona and I went to the airport to pick her up, Zona asked me if I was nervous. I looked at her funny and asked her why I would be nervous. She said because we were meeting Di. I looked at her like she had grown horns. It was then that I realized that I had never met Di......for some reason I felt like I already had! For propriety's sake, I'll just say that it was like getting together with my older sister when I met Di! :D

Many of us on the blog have become friends who talk on the phone, visit, or just email/snail mail. In the past year and a half, I have come to think of many of you as "real" friends, even if we only "talk" on the blog. We keep coming back day in and day out, or sometimes just here and there......but we keep coming back. To me, THAT is success!