We DO like our gossip up here on The Frozen Tundra - and MY big surprise moving our here to The Boonies is how crazy-related everyone is to everyone else (not to the point of mentally defective children, thank goodness!) and how everyone ‘KNOWS’ everything about you before they meet you, LOL!
It’s taken me 10 years now, but the women in Miles’ circle of friends and schoolmates and farm wives and female hunters are finally warming up to me.
I get it. And I am always on good behavior around them. A few have even given me their phone numbers, so that was pretty huge - though it just happened THIS PAST YEAR! ;)
I wanted to jump around like Sally Field when she won her Oscar: ‘You like me! You really, really LIKE me!’ LOL!
Some probably a little jealous.
Congrats on the phone number exchange! It is hard breaking into settled circles. Right now, I’m putting a foot forward with some ladies from our church. We are meeting for a small group Bible study once a week. They all know each other very well, and I only know one of them much at all. She’s the only one I knew the phone number for until Thursday, when one shared her cell number with me. It feels good to be included like that!
The five other ladies will probably take their time. I may never get their numbers. They all lived here, grew up here, raised their kids here, and have been members of this parish since they were children. So I REALLY don’t fit in that way, but to begin to be included is very nice.