Wei-erd...

Okay, so very strange things have happened lately.

First, there was the lightning. What more can I say about getting struck by lightning?

Then, I was sitting at a stoplight behind some guy in a big ol' truck. We were in the left hand turn lane. When the light turned green, he sat there for a few moments too long. As I waited impatiently for him to step on the gas already, I noticed a bumper sticker with a picture of a crossed out cell phone and a message: put it down and drive! Which wouldn't have been so funny if it weren't for the big black arrow pointing to what was apparently the result of a not-so-gentle love tap.

You probably know where this is going. He turned left- finally! - and I noticed his phone up to his ear.

I thought about making some gesture, like holding a fake phone up to my own ear. Mind you, I have occasionally, only occasionally, driven with a phone up to my own ear, but this is exactly why I would never put a bumper sticker like that on my car!

Then, I was driving down a major interstate through town when my cell phone rang and yes!!! I answered it. (Hey, we aren't in California here...although I have a suspicion we may have to give up the chit-chat on the road before too much longer... then again, we can still ride in the back of trucks and stuff here, so who knows? The horrors!)

So anyways, I answer the phone and my friend's voice asks me where I'm at. I'm not sure what she's getting at, but I tell her where I'm at and she tells me to look to my right. And lo and behold, there she is, flapping her crazy hands out the window of a friend's car. She's a nurse and she was in between patient's homes. Running into her on the freeway is crazy considering we live in a huge city.

But then, something else happened. I was driving in the center of town, heading into strange territory trying to find music supplies for H's piano lesson, and I get in the left hand turn lane. A car is heading towards me going pretty fast (it was a few minutes to nine - maybe someone was almost late to work??) so I step on it and turn. The car turns onto the road right behind me. It looks familiar...

...and then it pulls up next to me and I glance to my left thinking no, it just couldn't be! but yes, it could. There was my friend again. She's on her way to work in an area of town I'm never in. 

So we roll down our windows and we yell at each other, laughing, telling each other, "stop following me!!!"

Then, I'm at H's dance class talking to a friend who tells me her good friend lives in the development right next to ours. So I tell her we looked at houses in that development and I absolutely loved the neighborhood. I describe a backyard we saw as we were looking at one home in particular: the fence of this house we looked at backed up to an incredible yard with a professional, lighted basketball court, a gated swimming pool, and a full playground. I kid you not. This yard was incredible. One of a kind. I told her we couldn't live there unless they put a gate in between our yards :) and plus, the oven was kinda strange on it's own wall on the wrong side of the kitchen.

She looked at me for a few seconds without talking, and I'm thinking no way. It couldn't be. Right? Right???

She tells me she thinks I'm talking about her friend's house.

Turns out her friend bought a house a few months ago, shares a fence line with the incredible back yard and has a funky oven on a wall all by itself.

Out of some two hundred houses in that development, one hundred and fifty at least, I happened to describe her friend's. And yes, it's confirmed. Her friend shows up for the next class and we figure out that it is her house (I left out the part about the funky oven though...). She tells me they got a heck of a deal on it. Good thing, with the oven and all.


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On another note, we made it to church today and J and H love school. C loves his nurse. And mommy's very, very happy because tomorrow is another MONDAY! YAY!

Hope you are happy and well!