There's A New Sheriff In Town - Kate Kulwicki Is A Winner!

LOL.  Gage just wants us to know what's REALLY going on...

 Um, yeah.  I hated the DH when I first met him.  Or I thought I did.  But I couldn't stop thinking about him.  And then he asked me out...  The rest is called happily (well mostly) ever after.

That was great to have Gage stop by! I'm looking forward to his story!

My best friend and I agree totally on somethings, but there are a few areas where we're completely different. I think it creates a good balance like everyone has said!

I'm kind of conservative and cautious and I always tend to have friends who are outgoing and risk-takers. I guess they balance me out pretty well. They tend to drag me out of my shell. My sister is a lot more outgoing than me. She is one of those people if you are out she will be talking to everyone and I'm over in the corner watching everyone. It takes all kinds. Can't wait to meet the sheriff.

Linda Henderson

My best friend (since junior high) and I are very much alike. We share the same passion for english and for books. Like I, when she's not reading she's in her kitchen baking or cooking. We have the same humor, the same bad habit of talking way to fast. We love the same books which is nice because we share the expence ;-).

Without really wanting it, we ended up living in the same building. We don't see eachother that much because she is married and so a I, and our DH are very different (go figure...)

My husband and I are very much alike.  In fact, I knew he was the one for me when he made the exact same comment I had been thinking.  We have pretty much the same view of things (maybe 90%) and although we don't like the same television shows, (I hate his shows and he hates mine) or have the same hobbies, we have similar personalities.  We react the same in most situations and understand each other. 

Kathleen

Can't wait for this book to come out! Been waiting for it since I finished reading The Cowboy's second Chance. It's going to be interesting see what happens between the two. 

I tend to hang out with people that are similar to me, though I'm the shyer one of the bunch.  

Like others, I complete DH's sentences almost every week.  He'll say, "Do we have any" and I'll immediately respond, "In the linen closet, top left shelf", for example.  We don't question it.  We just figure we've lived together for so many years that we are on the same wave length.  (Unfortunately, the reverse doesn't hold true, but I think it's a guy thing.  DH might finish MY question once every year....)

As for best friend, I've known someone since we were in Kindergarten, so 46 years now.  I always thought I knew her, as we did homework together, played together, etc.  We were probably out of school for 10 years when she told me all about her secret love life (well, it was a secret to ME) during her high school years.  She was always the adventurous one (as you described YOUR best friend) and I was the quiet bookworm.

As for sane or crazy, I suppose we can all be described both ways at some points in our lives.  I DO recall how BFF got her licence at 16 and had vehicles at her disposal because her dad owned a car dealership.  She pleaded with me one time to travel with her 1.5 hours away to go shopping (shortly after she got her licence).  I had no money and no desire to shop (still true on both counts), but I felt it was important to keep her company, especially on the long stretch of highway in case of car problems.  Mom gave me $5.00 "just in case".  When we were coming home, BFF pulled over at a gas station and got $10.00 of gas, then turned to me and said, "That will be $5 for you, since we cut the bill in half" (or something to that effect).  I never travelled with her again.  I am STILL ticked that she had the nerve to request that.  Somehow this story was brought up at her 40th birthday party, and I can still hear her telling everyone something like, "My dad taught me that!  He said to share everything right down the middle, and I've been doing it ever since!"

Same BFF owned a bicycle-built-for-two and wanted me to accompany her on trips to the beach during our high school years.  When she would get in her "high and mighty" moods, I'd just take my feet off the pedals and let her do all the pedalling, as she insisted that SHE always got the front seat to steer because it was her bike.  (There's more than one way to skin a cat, LOL!)  To this day, she is still bossy and territorial.  I attended her 30th birthday party and her 40th birthday party 4.5 hours away, but, funny thing, I did not attend her 50th this year.

The one thing I HAVE learned in my 50 years is to cut my losses.  When I feel that I am the only one working on a friendship, and have been for years at a time, I have now stopped working on it.  Some people have stepped up to the plate, and then I work on it again, knowing the feelings are reciprocated.  My siblings and I have cut our losses with one sister.  We made an effort to bring Mom and Dad to visit the sister (up till their deaths many years ago), and my immediate family still made the effort to drive 2.5 hours away a couple times a year (minimum) to visit her since then.  She visited me once in the last 20 years, and that was when she was newly divorced and didn't have any New Year's plans, so she invited herself to stay with us for a week instead.  I used to phone regularly and she never ever phoned me.  We used to exchange cards, and my siblings and I would ask her to write comments inside to bring everyone up-to-date, but she refused, saying that nothing was new.  (Apparently a divorce doesn't count.)  She'd only sign her name.  She hasn't sent any of her siblings cards in over two years so we finally stopped sending to her too.  We see her picture on her son's Facebook page, so we know she's alive, but we realize her own sons don't even want to be with her.  Pretty sad.  Pretty lonely.  And no one to blame but herself.

As for a twin, congrats on your hero's twin!  I apparently have one too that worked at a bank an hour away.  By the time I finally went to "check her out", I was informed she no longer worked there.  Bummer.  Apparently if you snooze ya lose!  I learned my lesson....

My dh and I are so very different when we took a Myers-Briggs we are total opposites. But we do have some common interests, folk dance and music, the arts of all types, crafts. Left brain (him), right brain (me); linear thinker (him), global thinker (me). We have children who have some of both our traits, but in different mixes--it is so cool watching them develop into fine young women.

I have one close girlfriend who is an opposite and another who is so like me it's scary.

I have so many twins out there it is scary. So many of my patients over the years have told me some variation of, "my __________ looks just like you," there are dozens of us running around out there. 

Any chance Gage will come back and chat with us again? He sounds intriguing. 

Congrats Kate !! Happy reading ;-)

Chrystine ~  thank you, I"ll get an email to you shorty!  And, to answer your question, yes, my friend and I try to get together a couple of times a month!

 THanks fo the congrats you all....

Enjoy!