I have been very blessed with friends, and I have shared this more than once. I’ve been lucky to make friends under unique situations too. My workplace is also proving to be a great source of new friends, which is so important in these tough economic times…I mean as you get older, because unless you are very friendly and have a penchant for standing on street corners wearing a placard soliciting new friends, it’s nearly impossible to meet new people.

So, girlfriends. I have never had a Girlfriends (anyone besides my sister know or watch that show that followed four (then three) (Black) friends through their trials and tribulations?) or Sex And The City group of female friends that would meet regularly (weekly?) and talk and gossip about life, love and the pursuit of happiness. I have lovely female friends who get along with each other but we tend to bond on a one-on-one basis, possibly because I am very loud and chatty, with a tendency toward shrillness when excited, and my friends figure only one of them at a time should be frustrated trying to get a word in edgewise. This works for me. However, sometimes I do wish there was a group of 4-5 of us females who were really tight-knit, and made a committment to get together once every month or two, that even those with children could toss (or loving place) their beautiful bébés in their husband’s arms and come and hang out. I sort of had this early in my university career but I guess growing up and getting married (all but me, sob, sob) has a way of disbanding these groups (though if I’m fair that probably isn’t the full cause of said disbandment).

I’m planning on having a cookie/square/sweet treat exchange party this year and inviting a small group of friends to it. The way it’ll work is (let’s assume there are five of us) each person will prepare/bake five dozen treats, and package four of the dozen into four packages (one dozen treats per package), and attach the recipe for the cookie, square or treat to each package. We’ll meet for a fun evening (or couple of hours) of talking, chilling with wine, yummy coffee/tea/whatever and fingerfoods, and each person will give the other four people one of the packages they prepared, and that way we’ll each end up with five dozen different treats! This will be done to coincide with the Christmas season and will happen every year from 2009 onwards, and hopefully we’ll become our own version of best friends forever. Worst case scenario: some will have to hang out with people they can’t stand for my sake, but bear it for the cookies.

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