Meeting the neighbors..

Ok, I have lived in my house for almost 2 years now... and for someone as social as I am, I don't know many of my neighbors, nor do I make a point to socialize with them. It's not that they are bad people, it's just by the end of the day, I sometimes don't want to be social.. I just want to go home and be still... Y'all know I have a very active social calendar and there are many times when I don't even get home 'til late at night... so socializing with the neighbors, I don't think so...

But I do speak to my neighbors when they are outside, I may not socialize with them, but I'm not rude! So last night I get home from Knoxville, it's almost 9:00 and I see two of my neighbors outside talking... I have often thought they are dating, but haven't really inquired (for the reasons listed above).... so there they are, Chris and Kristi (we are going to call her Kristi b/c she looks like a girl I know named Kristi, but the truth is I have forgotten her name and am too embarrassed to ask her what it is now, for heaven's sake it's been almost 2 years) chatting it up as I pull into my parking spot (we have these fabulous row townhouses so they were practically standing at my front door)... I get out and we all start chatting... then our other neighbor pulls up...here's where the story takes an interesting turn....

The other neighbor's name is John.. I've seen him before (obviously), he's kind of cute, but I thought he was married..I never got close enough to check for a ring but then again he could be like those sneaky married guys that doesn't wear a ring.. Also, there has been a woman with multiple children there quite often. So I just figured he was married... But come to find out... He's NOT! There's more about that below....

So there we are, all 4 of us talking about staining our decks, y'all know this has been an ongoing project for me so I need as much feedback on this as possible.. John says he sprayed his down with a bug sprayer, he said it was super easy and quick!! Those were the magic words for me... I said I would have to try it and he offered me his sprayer... I gladly accepted..

Then we started talking about painting inside our townhouses... John says "oh my brother in law did mine for me, come look" so we all went in to his house and marvelled at the awesome painting job.. I got a glimpse of some of his pictures that were sitting around.. all of them were of him with kids... I asked him "oh are these your children?" he said "no, those are my nieces and nephews, I don't have any kids" ..... So my mind starts racing....this guy is cute, single, and apprently he owns his home, the furniture is still late frat house/waiting for a woman to come along to change everything style, in other words, NOT GAY...hmmmm... I could work with this..

So we all go back outside and I say "you know we should all get together for cocktails" b/c kristi walks her dog and knows the neighborhood gossip... So we all agreed that we would get together at my place Sunday evening... I am actually kind of excited to be meeting my neighbors.. this could turn out to be a good summer after all...