Friends? That’s probably a slight overstatement. What I have are friendly acquaintances.

What makes me think so?

Well, today at the grocery I was engaged in a conversation by a woman who works there whose daughter goes to the same elementary school as BabyD. She inquired about Baby’s level of excitement about grade one as school begins again next week.

BabyD is a bit apprehensive and torn honestly and so this woman – whose name I can’t remember – chatted about little ones pre-school jitters for a bit before I had to push on for the checkout and a massage appointment.

This is on the heels of a weight-lifter at my gym who is also in my current yoga class. We have been chit-chatting and yesterday she waves to me from her car as BabyD and I were headed home and she was obviously heading inside to work out.

And then there was Darlene, who remembered me from my first yoga class and is in the class with me now. We chatted about our yoga schedule for the fall and a weekly yoga strength training class that I am taking and she is considering.

Since I don’t really remember how I made friends outside the workplace (well, okay, mostly I didn’t*), I am not sure if I am on the path to new friends or not.

I do know that it isn’t all that horrible to know people well enough to carry on a conversation here and there.

*That’s not entirely true. I wasn’t that much of a loser.