i’m sure you all have heard this word before…it means “congenial or like-minded” or “Of like mind or temperament”….i don’t normally hear it in every day conversation but often think of the word when i’m talking to certain family members and friends:

* rona - i swear she and i can finish each other’s sentences without discussing the topic first and there are times where we just use the word “thing” so many times in a sentence everyone around us is confused and she and i look around and go “what, you guys didn’t understand that?” we will be at the mall and head in the same direction to the same store without telling each other that’s where we want to go. we will crave a food, beverage, etc. almost exactly at the same time when we’re hanging out and know that we can go pretty much anywhere, anytime and any place and the other person won’t complain…

* jenn - she has the gift of knowing exactly where my train of thought is going! not to many people can do that, trust me i’m all over the board! i will be talking about something, think the rest in my head, start in a different direction and she’ll know where i’m going with it. it frustrates the heck out of my family and hubby because they’re like…”uhh, WHAT?!?!? how did you get there? you were just talking about….”

* renita - she is the friend, spiritually, where we see almost eye to eye on the reasons why things are the way that they are, why things go the way they go and almost have identical beliefs with it comes to family, friendship…

* rowena - we trip each other out sometimes…there are times where we ping each other about something and literally go..”OMG, i was just about to talk to you about that” or “i was just thinking about that”. this morning, i IM’d her for lunch and she’s like “that’s weird, i was just gonna see if you could do lunch today” or she was thinking of having dinner at campo di bocce tomorrow and hubby and i have literally been talking about stopping there for dinner on the way home one day. and then there are those times where she’ll mention a particular “topic” and i SWEAR i would have had a conversation with hubby about that topic literally a day or two before she and i talk about it! i.e “omg, we were just talking about….blah blah…”

* jenny - our conversations are soooooo out there sometimes that i swear the things we talk about people would be like WHAT THE HECK are you guys thinking or talking about? she is the friend that will listen to a statement or question that i have about someone or something and will equally be like “yeah, i was wondering that too but thought people would laugh if i asked!”

it’s no surprise that 3 of the people above are virgos…simpatico is our middle name…hahaha

* my other gal pals - i should probably add that CHOCOLATE is definitely the common factor with the rest of my gal pals!

i think we all have these…wanna know a few of mine?

– people that judge
– people that think they know the whole story when they really don’t and are afraid to ask to get clarification
– people who cannot just relax and realize life has great things to offer - enjoy it!
– people who don’t realize that they cannot (and will never) control other people’s life
– people who think that i’ll never find out, when they don’t know, that i ALWAYS find out

and for those that read all of the above and get offended, it most likely means it’s YOU that i’m talking about.

we trekked up to EG this weekend to visit family and friends…first my bro and sis-in-law, then chet and cat, then mike and rona. it was a totally nice day!

first stop - visit edison, jenn and joshie — since i had to go into the office that morning (ugh) we got to their place shortly after lunch. we weren’t even 2 minutes in the door and noside and wifey were cooking up burgers and fries! now burgers are burgers but these particular ones remained big in diameter and were extra yummy! we were joined by their friends chris and febe, who is a few months prego. highlight of that visit? me asking tobey if he’ d like to touch auntie febe’s tummy…he says yes…then proceeds to pat the belly…or rather the two things above the belly..hahahahha thank goodness febe was a good sport about it!

second stop - visit chester, cathy and the kids — we just chatted it up a bit since we had not seen them in a few weeks. kids do grow very fast! lindsay got taller, allie gets even girlier than before and benny was just walking around all over the place! we hung out for a bit until we headed over to mike and rona’s together.

third stop - visit mike and rona — they were making dinner for us and invited the above mentioned as well. on the menu? chicken enchiladas! YUMMY!!! mike’s cooking skills are always inspiring…rona, you lucky b—- you…hahahaha the kids were very behaved and spent the evening watching a video and playing with missy, rona and mike’s doggy.

we were so full from eating all day i was HECKA sleepy driving home!