Friends and Lamps?! No way!

 

Guess WHAT??!! 

We may have made REAL LIFE friends today!!!!  

We're trying not to get too excited, after all it's very early in the relationship, but things are looking promising!  We're going to give it the standard 3 days before we reach out, but we have to admit, we're a little giddy.  So please, sit back, read on, and share in our excitement.  After all, it's only taken a YEAR!

Setting:  Nordstrom Rack shopping for top secret wedding things.  

Date:  Sunday, August 12th, 2012

Time:  Approximately 4:15ish pm

Minor detail that's important to the story:  Wes was wearing his Redsox hat

New friend prospect #1:  "Hey man, you a Boston fan??"

Startled Wes (because no one, other than the lifeguards at our pool, ever talk to us):  "Yeah man!"  

New friend prospect #1:  Continues to make conversation!!  

Wes and Jaime's Brains:  Is someone really talking to us??!!  Ok, get it together, this is the moment you've been waiting for.

New friend prospect #1 & Wes:  Continue to make conversation!!

Jaime's face:  Can't wipe the stupid smile off.

~Enter New friend prospect #2 (a female who appears half-way normal!!!) ~  

Jaime's face:  Stupid smile widens

Wes & Jaime's Brains:  Could it be?!  Oh boy (mickey mouse voice)!

New friend prospect #1:  "Hey guys, this is my girlfriend, Lauren."

~Proper introductions ensue~

Wes & New friend prospect #1:  Chat, chat, chat, chat, chat

Jaime & New friend prospect #2:  Chat, chat, giggle, giggle, chat, chat, giggle

~After about 20 minutes of exciting, first date conversation, Wes and New friend prospect #1 exchange business cards (we're so cool in DC) and we decide to hang out after we get back from our trip home next weekend!!!!!~  

Jaime & Wes' brains after New friend prospects leave us:  Ok, stay in control, it's been a while, but you know this feeling.

~Wes and Jaime try to play it cool, since our New friend prospects are still within earshot, so we make stupid conversation about the socks, knowing full well that we're both dying to look at the other with a "DID THAT JUST REALLY HAPPEN?!" look.~

Cut to the car:

Jaime:  "Wes, we're wearing mathcing blue and white striped shirts."

Wes:  "Oh god, we are."  

~A few moments of silence~

Wes:  "Oh well, we'll have to mention that when we hang out next.  Who cares, WE HAVE FRIENDS!!"

Jaime:  "Friends, friends, friends, friends, FRIENDS!!"

 

Oh, and on our way to Jo-Ann Fabrics, we stopped at a furniture store that went bankrupt and is liquidating everything!  We found super awesome lamps for our bedroom, for a ridiculous price!!  We were so excited about our lamps and still a bit giddy from our friend encounter, that we buckled them in.

 

Pretty lamps :)