meetups

ok. in my attempt to be more social and make friends, i registered on this website called meetup.com. you join groups in the area of people who have similar interests and the organizer sets up get-togethers.

so i've joined two so far - one that's a women's social group for 25-35 year olds, and another that's a mind, body, spirit group that gets together and does yoga and whatnot.

they have just about every type of bizarre interest group available - people who are into dungeons and dragons, hula hooping, pick up soccer, there's a walking group that gets together for walks and a restaurant group that goes out and tries new restaurants (which i was tempted to join until i noticed that everyone in the group was, like, my parent's age).

so the women's social group is meeting on sunday at beans & barley on the eastside for coffee and brunch. i rsvp'd yes.

i don't know why i get myself into these things...sounds like a great idea at first, but i'm afraid it's going to be really uncomfortable and lame when i get there. i'm fairly certain the conversation will die at some point and it'll become awkward. i hate awkward. i'm really making an effort to put myself out there because i'm tired of not having any (or really just 1) good girlfriend(s), but this is really exhausting.

on a side note - i'm having dinner with liz tonight. this'll be the second time we've gotten together. she's cool and we get along well. she's the girlfriend of a guy that matt is in a band with in case you missed her introduction into the blog a few weeks back.