I'm going to get all Martha up in this piece

[fredericks]

I've given into the quiet nagging from my family and decided to have a "Housewarming Party." Not really, because a) I'm in an apartment and b) I've always figured housewarming parties worked more when one moved into a *home*, but my family wants what it wants. And generally what they want is some booze, free food, and TV. Which has me sort of antsy, because the apartment is pretty small and lacking in furniture, and seeing as there's only the one TV everyone's going to be more or less forced to interact with one another. And my family's pretty large. I've made sure to emphasis on the invitations that there's to be no inviting of anyone *outside* of the family, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to end up entertaining about 25-35 people. Ugh. I'm trying not to freak out too much (this is going to be a BYOC [chair] gig, because, yeah).

One of my continued goals is to attempt to put myself out there more and try to socialize more. It remains tough, but sometimes I find myself pleasantly surprising myself. Ended up chatting with a nice woman at the laundromat Sunday who was a major Dr. Who/Torchwood fan, who pointed me towards Torchwood NY meet ups that I might check out. And I'm seriously considering starting up another book club with some of my friends from the office (where we're actually going to read the books, dammit). Small steps and all.

Now if only work would stop being torturous I think things would be okay.

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[mysticalchild_isis]

I feel like BYOC is a practice I need to institute for big parties, because we're criminally short of chairs here.

Good luck with the fam and the party.

I've been cautiously testing out some of the Boston Meetup.com groups, and while they haven't been amazingly amazing, none of them have been at all bad, and I live in hope that I will someday make more cool friends due to them.

[fredericks]

I've checked out some of the Meetups over here. Problem is the groups are generally massive, and in the few experiences I've had everyone knows everyone else and it's hard to insinuate oneself. But maybe I'll find one that works okay in the near future.

Cool friends are cool. :)

One of the sucky things about the timing for my party is that the gas shortage in the area is putting quite a hamper on planning and getting guests over. It's hard to justify having people drive miles over if they have to wait 2 hours on line for gas.