April 26 - Socializing in These Foolish Things

I was going to write about serious shit, but I think I need to put a little more thought into it. I know that this space is for barfing out ideas, but I don’t know that I have even a half-formed thought about this issue. Rest assured, I’ll write about it at some point. It’s called survivor’s guilt. It’s a doozy.

In lighter news, it’s Friday. I am, of course, working from home. I went to an event last night (more on that in a sec), so I actually slept in just a teeny bit and it threw my morning into a different routine. I still got all of my routine in: reading, workout, progress pics, water drinking, Miralax coffee (R) hahah, etc., and I ended up taking my shower much later this morning because I have zero Zooms and/or meetings today. I didn’t put my contacts in or fix my hair or anything (still in the messy bun mode).

Today’s the kinda day where it’s very cool to be working from home. The whites are being laundered, the dog’s been sufficiently treated and walked, and I am getting organized.

Tomorrow’s supposed to be another rainy Saturday, and since I really have nothing else planned, I think I’ll spend the day organizing my two bedroom closets. I need to go through all of my clothes and then just the stuff that I’ve stored from my previous job and all of the storage stuff that I boxed up to go through later. Spring cleaning time, I guess!

My friend C. invited me to an event that he was hosting last night. It was at a beautiful condo building downtown and there were a lot of interesting business folks there. It was mainly a networking thing, but he thought it would be a good idea for me to go. He also invited my friend who just moved downtown, but she ended up working late.

C. has some amazing connections. He’s an M&A guy and he specializes in smaller companies, but all types of businesses and they are all really interesting to me. There are a lot of vineyards and wineries closeby and C. was part of the sale of a beautiful vinyard and winery and the new owners brought a full line of their wine to the event. Of course, I’m no longer drinking so sparkling water it was for me. And then there was a gigantic charcuterie spread, and I don’t eat processed meats anymore so no meat for me, but I had a few cornichons and tried the salsas that another businessman brought (from his salsa company). And I also met a guy who owns a bunch of chiropractic and massage locations. And some other commercial real estate guy. Had a great time talking to SO MANY people!!

I believe this was my first networking event like this where I didn’t have a drop of alcohol, and it was very interesting. I noticed that I was having a VERY nice time talking with a lot of different people and felt completely at ease, but I also noticed that after a while I was exhausted by it all. I’d brought the dog (in her purse, haha!), and at one point I had to excuse myself to go take her outside to go potty, and we had a wonderful little walk down a cute street full of bars and live music venues and I honestly didn’t want to go back to C.s event!

I did, of course, but I didn’t stay much longer because I was completely socialized out. I was home at a decent-ish hour, for going out on a Thursday night, and I was in bed by 10:45, but MAN was it hard to get up this morning. I actually felt a little hungover!

Today is a nice, slowish Friday and I’m just glad it’s the end of the week and I can do some Spring cleaning this weekend. Maybe even cruise the dating apps a little? WILD!!

xo,
GS