A Blogger Friend is a Friend Indeed

After scheduling and rescheduling, yesterday I finally met with the graceful (got that term from Rima) and kind-hearted lady who had sent me all those beautiful books for the vastly growing collection of mine.

And I’m telling you; this lady might say she is in her early forties, but believe me people, she doesn’t even look a day over thirty! The dedication she takes for eating well and exercising daily sure do pay well to her figure – she put me to shame what with her flat stomach and wrinkle-free face, and reality hit hard when I looked down to my slightly bulged belly and the fact that I couldn’t even discipline myself to go to sleep at the same time each day!

So who am I talking about exactly? It’s none other than Elyani – the person who owns a wonderful blog called ‘Elyani’s Place‘ that I never forget to visit and leave comments in. It’s a fantastic blog full of enriching information and thoughts and it was from her blog alone I’ve grown to admire her as a person and as woman. Not to mention that she is also a dog-lover like me, and from the moment I read her posts about her late pup Fatso, I was hooked. They were beautiful and touching stories about the connection a human being had with her dog, and I couldn’t help feeling all warm and fuzzy, as well as appreciating all the moments I have with my own dog, Micah.

We had lunch at Chatterbox, which was located in this famous mall in her area, and as soon as we sat down to eat, all the stories came out and we talked as if we had been friends for ages. She told me the story of her life, and I told her mine. I felt as if she had been where I had, and listening to her stories, I felt comfortable for having a person to share exactly what I was going through, and for her to be so understanding and wise about it.

There were so many things to tell – I felt like I could hang out with her and chat until we lost times, which we did, because after lunch, came coffee and we continued our conversations talking about our dogs and their weird but adorable antics.

She was also kind enough to accompany me to the jeweler’s to look for rings and I found a pair with the perfect price and design. I made a mental note to come back there sometime next week with my beau. The shopkeeper was telling me that it would be wiser to let the other party know what kind of design I’d chosen because some couples take a long time to agree to something as simple as rings. But I know my beau’s taste well – we even picked the same design when we browsed through Orori.com. We really clicked.

And the same thing happened with Elyani and me. We had some time to browse through the clothes shops and I found that she and I had the same taste. She also told me about this cute bag which had pictures of dachshund dogs on it and showed it to me – as soon as I saw it I fell in love, it was the cutest bag ever! I couldn’t resist purchasing it. Elyani also bought one from the same shop but with the pattern of a cat and in a different design.

When we looked at the time it was nearing 5 pm and I almost forgot to get dogfood for Micah! Luckily Elyani called the place up and it turned out they were open till 10, so I was like, “Phew. Ok let’s check out more shops!” It was evident I’d been deprived of clothes shopping for a very, very long time.

She accompanied me to the pet shop and I had to buy US Grain Regal Lamb Bites since they didn’t have Nutro Choice Holistic – I was slightly annoyed because the last time I was there, they recommended Nutro and now they claimed it was getting difficult trying to import the brand, so I was given Regal Lamb Bites which they said was better and was also always available in stock.

Elyani bought a cute-looking collar for her kitty Suneo – I can’t wait until she took photos of him with her soon-to-be-bought SLR Canon 450D!

I offered to take her home but she refused because the traffic -she predicted since she knew her area well – would be hellish. So we said goodbyes and made promises to catch up again soon. I had a really great time and I came home also with a lot of stuff from her – this interesting feng-shui book which I’m borrowing, the Monggo chocolate bar that she bought for me when we passed the shops and this huge presents for Rima which she’d asked me to give to her husband when it was time for me to pick up the yummy Belg chocolate she’d promised to give to us!

To end this post, I’d like to show pics of the recently bought bed for Micah – it was so adorable and I saw it at Ace Hardware today and as soon as I clapped my eyes on it I knew I just had to have it. Cute, isn’t it?