the friday night thing

I hate wasting space on this thing with personal stuff, but it's late and I just got in so I not thinky good. Or, even worse than normal might be a better way to put it. And the weekend isn't getting any less hectic from here so I'm not up for any late-night blogging.

The Saturday night thing from last week--that is, bowling--got moved up a day this week. And I hit triple digits in all three games--in my world that's a heck of a good bowling night. More importantly, we finally got over the hump of getting more people involved and managed to round up two lanes worth of players this time. Overall it was more fun, as there was more conversation, more energy, and much more weird and stupid behavior than last week (that last one's always a good thing in crowds). Bowling may be establishing itself as one of my regular activities.

As well as...dancing. (I'll pause for effect here.) ... I've only been to one swing dance thing recently (which turned out to be something I wasn't at all expecting), but I actually enjoyed it and I've been wanting to go regularly for months now. But, of course, it's one of those things that's hard to do alone, and I'm never sure who else is going. And I'm sure not going to try to make my own "arrangements" just yet. So there's my excuse for having not been in a few months. But tonight I unwittingly committed myself to go, as my expressing general interest got me included in a guys head count. So if I don't go then the numbers, if you will, won't match up as expected. Not that I mind so much; this is the sort of thing that makes attending less complicated. Perhaps there will be a core group that enjoys it enough to go regularly--in which case I have a free pass around my barrier to going more often.

And all that after a pre-Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow that I'm not yet prepared for. Should be a good time of fellowship though. And it will present another opportunity to work on those who still need some convincing to come to the dance afterwards. Oh, yeah, and in the morning I need to go to work and pack in some hours to hopefully get going a bit on something I haven't started yet that's due at the end of this month. Joy.

It's kinda funny to think back to just a few months ago when I was usually bored to death on weekends and wishing I had something to do or some folks to hang out with. Yet over the past couple of months or so it's been as if I'm always doing something on weekends, be it afternoon events with other singles group members or evenings of movie watching and spades playing with the guys or whatever. And I'm getting back into reading and studying and such (which has been long overdue for me), so it's not like I have nothing to do anymore. Sometimes I actually feel like I don't have enough down time on weekends, but I like it much more this way. At least I'm doing a lot more with others now, so I'm getting to know people and be comfortable around them to the extent that I'm actually not silent all the time. In my life that's still somewhat of a new experience. Oh well, can't have the best of both worlds I guess.