Finding Old Friends

So I've had two very busy weekends and am about to have another two very busy weekends.

The weekend before Labour Day weekend I decided to scoot down to the Tron to visit Miss T for a bit of a girls weekend while her hubby was off playing snooker in Wellington.
Earlier in the year I had been on Facebook and found one of my friends from primary school who I haven't seen since she moved when we were 11. We had tried to be pen-pals, but it kind of fell by the teenage wayside. I found out she lives in the Tron too, so we had a wee (online) chat and decided that we should catch up for a coffee while I was down visiting.
So on the Saturday morning, Miss T and I bowled over to Shell's place to meet her (again), her hubby and wee boy James. We thought we would be in for a quick tactical-strike-style catch up for a couple of hours and then out again. Were we ever wrong!
It's surprising that, given Shell and I hadn't seen each other in almost 20 years and that Miss T and Shell weren't particular friends, we just fell back into really easy conversation and were totally relaxed and had a complete blast. There was quite a bit of giggling, hassling her husband, looking at photos, and laughing about old school stories (especially ones that involved us 3 white girls in the Poly Club at primary school!).
5 hours and a really good quiche after we got there (5! 5 hours!!!!), Miss T and I decided that we should leave since Shell was planning on going out later and taking an 8 month old baby out takes preparation. But we swapped numbers and addresses, and have promised to catch up again soon (which is likely to involve some kind of party in her big party shed).
As people may know, I am *not* someone who really chases after people that I knew at school since I've managed to keep in contact with the ones that I actually liked. So I'm really, really pleased that I found Shell again. Facebook, I salute you (but just this once).

So this weekend past was the long weekend. Hurrah the holiday drought has ended! Ahem, but apart from that, Sarah, Alistair, Em and Jess came to visit. Actually they came up for a family reunion but I like to think I was all important enough for them to visit! I have rather missed all the higgledy piggledy noise and mess and hugs. I have forgotten how cool it is to have kids around. I'm all hugged up for the moment, but has made me miss Wellington again..... :/ Which means that I miss everyone.... :/ Damn you all for not moving to Orcland with me!

But to tide me over, I have Nic and Becks up this weekend for Phantom (YAY!!!!!!!) and Judge coming up the weekend after that just for the double-hockey-sticks of it (More YAY!!!!!!!). And then Xmas is coming so I'll be down in Wellington to visit for AGES (well 2 weeks but that's ages in my world at the moment).

So hugs and kisses to everyone, and I will see everyone soon! Unless of course you are overseas somewhere, cause then I won't. ;)