We both got to bike ride with new friends this weekend. Tim did a century ride (yes, that would be 100 miles on your bike) in Taos and battled some serious hills and elevation gains. I took it easy with two girls (ladies? Should I say ladies? Chicas?) from church on a bike ride near our house. These ladies are much more hardcore than I am. I realize it isn't very hard to be tougher and more daring than I am because I am a wuss that suffers from a (small) problem with anxiety, but one of them mountain bikes and goes off obstacles as well, and the other one hits the skate park with her kids. If I get on a skateboard again, you can be sure that I will wearing a helmet, body armor, and a pillow strapped to my butt. This is how strong my fear of getting hurt is. Anyway, this is the good thing about making new friends, right? Especially if you make friends that are better at things that you. Example 1, when my tire flatted on our ride, these friends actually had tools and an extra tube to change the tire. I was impressed. My modus operandi is to ride with my celly cell - this way I can phone in a ride home should I have any kind of technical difficulty. 25 minutes and lots of bike grease and honking from cars later, they had my tire fixed up and we were back on the road. Hott.
I also made a friend by volunteering to sing at a Stake music concert. This is not usually my style either but I figured that it's good to be out of your comfort zone every once in a while, right? Again, this friend is incredibly talented musically, and thanks to her coaching, transposing the piano music to a key that was best for my voice, and then playing that music on her folk harp (holler! Folk harp!), I think things actually went ok. There was much nervousness, sweating, and butterflies, and afterwards I literally stuffed a cookie in my mouth that didn't even taste good out of sheer anxiety, but you know, we made it. Here's to making new friends!
5 comments:
I AM so proud of you. However, I doubt your musical debut in NM could out-do 2 ginormously pregnant women singing something more appropriate for Lilith Fair than a church talen show, but whatever...
You go Sara! I am happy you are doing well! Now I have to think about what I can do to put myself out there... I helped Andy seal our terribly LONG drive way the other day and a lot of people waved as they drove by but being covered in tar doesn't tend to attract friends... hmmmm....
And I have to admit I am quite intrigued by Chelsea's comment... did we miss an entertaining branch talent show?
haha. love this post and the commentary on making new friends. it can be quite the hilarious process sometimes!
Ok, I'm loving Anna's comment. I think I'll carry that with me and use it a lot when we eventually move. Sara, no worries with you. You are friendly and a ton of fun to talk to. You can tell everyone how much I miss talking to you and how you always changed my life.
Love the memory about the talent show. You go Indigo Girls.
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