A Blog Thank You!

As if being my personal shopping advisor was not enough, my friend Cindy has once again gone way beyond the friendship call of duty! I was prepared to wear my probably out of fashion shirt to the baptism tomorrow, when I received a phone call from Cindy saying she had been at the early bird shopping sale at "Kohl's" and found some suitable church shirts for me and when could I come over to try them on? I immediately started thinking about the day's schedule. When could I meet her at Kohl's? Possibly between soccer games or maybe after dinner, and then she stopped me, "Wait, I already bought the shirts. You just need to come to my house or I to yours."

Were mine ears deceiving me or did she just say she bought all the shirts? Wow, it was true. The shirts were in her home and the least I could do to hold up my end of our friendship was to make the trip to her house. I quickly said one of those prayers I often find myself saying when I need to have some kind of good karma. "And please God, may at least one of those shirts she bought fit right and not make me look too busty or like a linebacker or that I have sausages for arms or something like that. After all my friend did wake up early and go shopping for me and at this point I would like to think her efforts weren't for not."

I was at her house within the hour trying on the shirts, the skirt and the dress she picked out. She then informed me that whatever fit I was going to keep as "everything was such a bargain." God answered my prayers, because not only did one shirt look good, two others did as well, as did the skirt and I got to try them all on in the comfort of a home. What a luxury. As I was leaving her house, I actually turned around and went back in to tell her, "That was the best shopping experience of my life, not only did I not have to think about what to buy, I loved not being in a tiny cubicle looking in a mirror that makes me look less than desirable and that I knew who I would be bringing to Chicago when I have my "Oprah Interview" about my New York Times Bestseller." Here's a blog thank you to my friend Cindy!