It is a sad state of affairs that I have lived in our current location for nearly a year and can count on one hand the number of friendships forged.
Here are the facts as they stand tonight. I love to entertain. I'm sick to death of not having girlfriends. I have therefore broken my pledge to stop being the person to coordinate events only to become the solitary red thread that ties a group together.
So, I've gone and done it again.
The season premiere for AI is tomorrow evening. I've invited a bunch of women I do not know (most of whom I've never even met) to come and watch some trash TV.
I'll have munchies out and candles lit. It's completely last minute, so I may have done myself in before we've even begun. Most people with small children cannot be spontaneous--their schedules do not allow for it. Somehow it seems I never remember that aspect of the equation.
At any rate, I am giving it a go. I can't end up any worse off than I already am. Friendless? Brainless? Helpless? Hopeless? Here's to being unemployed in Greenland.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Out On that Damned Branch Again
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I'd come.
Hell, I would almost even drive hours just to have real live, non-family interaction.
Hope at least some show up :-)
good idea, sometimes you gotta work hard to make friends, dontcha? I feel a bit like that where i am now- been here since August and all the friends I have are the friends of my boyfriend and their girlfriends. I want some of my own!
Sucks, doesn't it. We've been there toooo many times. Hopefully no more. Hope it goes well for you.
Your get-together sounds like a hoot - who wouldn't want to come and eat munchies and watch trash TV?
Or, you could always form a brute squad to empty a thieves' forest. That's better than being unemployed in Greenland.
Yeah, I'm not so good at the "forging friendships" thing, mostly because I don't do things like this and I don't have a "you" in my life.
And it's better than the shrieking eels.
@Jayna: I think one girl is coming for sure. She's already seen my diaster of a house, so I don't feel too much pressure to clean. :)
@SSG: At least your boyfriend's friends are friendly to you. That is a post for a whole other day.
@AFM: Another shitty club we all belong to, it seems.
@Tuli: Do you think they get cable in the Thieves' Forest?
@Betsey Booms: I can't be all that good at it bc it never seems to work.
@Gypsy: I'd take shrieking eels over shrieking kids most days.
I have ZERO friends in my town... and that's after 2 years of living here. But that's mostly because I'm strangely shy and antisocial (sometimes).
Dude. You are so much braver than I. Wish I lived near you or vice versa. Hope it all went well.
I'm unemployed in Spain, so I'm right there with ya.
I have been there a million times finding myself with no friends and not knowing how to start. You sound like you've got it right.
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