All Right, All Right, I'll Start Talking
Well, here I am in front of the computer. A cat with a shaved "scruff" is napping in front of the stereo cabinet. (As long as she's napping, she's not scratching and making more "boo-boos" on her neck, so that's fine with me.)
But that's not why you're reading.
You want to know all about the dating webinar.
So how did I end up taking a dating webinar? It's simple: I am signed up for the weirdest e-mail offers. I'm sure you all know Groupon (that's how I mysteriously wound up with free food that one time--a voucher gone crazy) and while I usually ignore 99% of those, another site I belong to (luxury-type offers I just window-shop to please the Libra in me!) started offering them, too.
Most of them were for things in the city, but this was a webinar with none other than Siggy Flicker. It looked too interesting to pass up, so I got the voucher and signed up.
It was supposed to be two Wednesdays ago, but her assistant sent a rescheduling email saying she got pulled into some show taping, so they postponed it to last Monday night. In a way, it worked to my advantage because. . . only one other person logged in to the webinar and said/did absolutely nothing the whole time. Granted, I had a mic problem that created nothing but feedback, but I used the chat window and she'd respond, so it felt personal. She's very upbeat and bubbly (contrary to how she kind of of seems blunt and mean on TV). Really, I just listened and took notes most of the time. And it ran longer than the allotted hour, so I think I got my money's worth.
What did I take away from it? Well, I don't want to give away all the expert's information--yes I did save a couple of screencaps for my own personal use which I won't post here--but I will talk about the one thing I'm trying to figure out how to make happen in my life. And that is to go out twice a week.
The idea of going out twice a week brings up a lot of questions:
1. Where do I go?
2. What can I afford?
3. How do I not go alone but still remain "open to meeting people"?
4. When the heck am I supposed to do this?
Hmmm. It took me a while to work up to one night a week playing trivia, and even now that's in flux because our home-base pub closed for renovations (and whether or not there will be trivia again when it reopens is TBD) and we've been itinerant and looking for a new place to settle in.
I'd like to try going out somewhere on a different night, but honestly I'm already tired out from work and trying to recommit myself to three nights a week at the gym and getting all my chores done (ha). So what is the "going out" that works for me?
That's what I need to figure out.
I'm considering it part of my mini-makeover strategy. Because if I keep doing what I've been doing, I'll get what I'll always gotten.
Which isn't a whole lot of good stuff right now.
I have got to get the good stuff flowing in my life again. I did it before and I can do it again.
I hope!
But that's not why you're reading.
You want to know all about the dating webinar.
So how did I end up taking a dating webinar? It's simple: I am signed up for the weirdest e-mail offers. I'm sure you all know Groupon (that's how I mysteriously wound up with free food that one time--a voucher gone crazy) and while I usually ignore 99% of those, another site I belong to (luxury-type offers I just window-shop to please the Libra in me!) started offering them, too.
Most of them were for things in the city, but this was a webinar with none other than Siggy Flicker. It looked too interesting to pass up, so I got the voucher and signed up.
It was supposed to be two Wednesdays ago, but her assistant sent a rescheduling email saying she got pulled into some show taping, so they postponed it to last Monday night. In a way, it worked to my advantage because. . . only one other person logged in to the webinar and said/did absolutely nothing the whole time. Granted, I had a mic problem that created nothing but feedback, but I used the chat window and she'd respond, so it felt personal. She's very upbeat and bubbly (contrary to how she kind of of seems blunt and mean on TV). Really, I just listened and took notes most of the time. And it ran longer than the allotted hour, so I think I got my money's worth.
What did I take away from it? Well, I don't want to give away all the expert's information--yes I did save a couple of screencaps for my own personal use which I won't post here--but I will talk about the one thing I'm trying to figure out how to make happen in my life. And that is to go out twice a week.
The idea of going out twice a week brings up a lot of questions:
1. Where do I go?
2. What can I afford?
3. How do I not go alone but still remain "open to meeting people"?
4. When the heck am I supposed to do this?
Hmmm. It took me a while to work up to one night a week playing trivia, and even now that's in flux because our home-base pub closed for renovations (and whether or not there will be trivia again when it reopens is TBD) and we've been itinerant and looking for a new place to settle in.
I'd like to try going out somewhere on a different night, but honestly I'm already tired out from work and trying to recommit myself to three nights a week at the gym and getting all my chores done (ha). So what is the "going out" that works for me?
That's what I need to figure out.
I'm considering it part of my mini-makeover strategy. Because if I keep doing what I've been doing, I'll get what I'll always gotten.
Which isn't a whole lot of good stuff right now.
I have got to get the good stuff flowing in my life again. I did it before and I can do it again.
I hope!
Comments
Yep, I'll bet on that. You can do it.
R.S.--I was contemplating Saturdays; it's just that on weekends everything is crowded, everywhere. . . and I've been using Saturdays to catch my breath.
You know, if I'm not cantoring Mass or working at my side job at the public library.
CCR--Hmmm, I don't like taking out the trash so what does that mean??? ;)
I know, my mom keeps bugging me about MeetUp. I have a bit of a hang-up about walking into a roomful of strangers by myself. (O.K., a really big one.) So that's one hesitation. I also have a horrible sense of direction and don't know my way around Center City, so I don't want to go places by myself, for safety reasons. And it sounds weird but I'm not sure what I really like, that a group would be centered around.
On top of that, I have the worst luck with groups. Just when I've found one, it falls apart six months later. Seriously, it has happened more than once. And book clubs have yet to work out for me, which seems RIDICULOUS because I'm a librarian.
I know I sound full of excuses. I'm just tired of working so hard to find something that might work, expecting things to be good, and being so disappointed. Repeatedly.