FYB #8 - Girlfriend Time

My best friend has a really busy life right now. She and her husband just bought a new house and have recently moved in and begun some major renovations. She's kinda busy! Normally we would at least talk on the phone 3 or 4 times during the week and catch up, but lately it's been - if we're lucky - 5 minutes here and there.

So, last weekend I jumped at the chance to get some quality girlfriend time when she asked me to go to the county dump with her. The coffee shop it was not, but when else was I going to get 2 hours of uninterrupted time with my best friend?

Not only did we have the chance to thoroughly catch up on each other's lives, but we created a memorable experience to add to our stories of our friendship. We both went home to tell our husbands about the dump - the long windy, bumpy road up the mountain, the hundreds of circling birds, the hurricane force winds that made my friend squeal and tossed garbage in the air like fluff balls, and the crotchety old bulldozer guy who came down to watch the 'girlies' shovel the rubbish out of the pickup truck. Oh, and can't forget the 2 local guys who pulled up next to us and bellowed out a huge cloud of marijuana smoke when they opened their truck doors.

So, it doesn't really matter how you get that time with those folks who are important to you and if you think outside the box, perhaps you'll come up with a great story!

If you, or your girlfriends, don't have chunks of time to connect, then what about:

• joining a class together
• carpooling to an event
• regularly helping each other with chores
• getting season tickets to the theatre together
• scheduling shared events for your kids

I'm sure you have some other great ideas. What are they?