I have a hard time meeting new people. We haven’t found a church to attend yet, and I’m staying home with Pi now, so befriending co-workers is out. I’ve been trying to talk to people around our apartment complex, but that hasn’t gone very well. I got the brush-off from the first person I tried to talk to, and the second two — a nice couple with a giant Marmaduke dog — were moving to Seattle that very day. Great timing, eh?

So I went on a blind date last night. With about 11 or 12 mommies I’d never met before. I found a mommies group online, and their calendar had a Moms Night Out scheduled.

I sat in the parking lot of the pizza place for a few minutes, working up the gumption to have dinner with a bunch of strangers. And then I went in, found the table populated with ladies and introduced myself.

I’m glad I did.

We had pizza, they were friendly, and I had a nice time. Then we went to a movie.* It was such a nice break. They have playgroups pretty regularly, and Moms Nights Out about once a month. I’m already planning to go to a scrapbooking crop in November. (I’m such a party animal.)

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*”The Departed.” Holy Hannah, that was quite a movie. More violence and “language” than I normally go for, but the acting was great and I was on the edge of my seat nearly the whole time. And it was a l o n g movie, so that’s saying something.