Goals

At last month's Relationship Club meeting I set three goals for the month: release the ex-boyfriend; stay happy; and go on at least one date (and/or smooch somebody). 

Doing okay on staying happy, and I think I'm mostly unstuck from the ex.  But I have a week and a half before the next meeting in which to go on a date.  And no real prospects.  I'm going to have to go scare something up.   It's a little bit daunting. 

[UPDATE:  Ogged finds this overly structured.  And because this is turning into a high traffic day I'm feeling sheepish about having posted it at all.  Of course it's not entirely serious. I guess it's sort of dorky and structured to get together with a couple of friends once a month and drink wine and talk about the relationships or lack thereof in our lives and what we're thinking and how we've been and what we want to do.  Making it formal has been kind of cool though.  We have story lines.  We have a sense of progress.  We can look back at where our heads were a month ago and see movement.  We tell one another the truth about our fears and our triumphs and our confusion, and we help each other recognize patterns.  It turns out to be pretty cool.  And the truth is it would be nice to go on a date, not just so I can say I did at our get-together in a week or so.  But the kick in the pants to actually do something about it helps.] 

Comments

[ogged]

No no. I wasn't passing judgement on this: I really wanted to know if any of my readers did something similar. It's quite foreign to me, but the source of as much envy as bewilderment.

[moresilent]

it actually kind of reminds me of dead poets society

[mad]

In response to Ogged's query, I'd have to say "no." But there is the Big Book of Bad Dates . . . .

[ambimb]

Hey, it's your own Sex in the, uh, Really Small City. Who wouldn't want that?

[monica]

yeah, that's what i was thinking too. it's like Sunday brunch with Cosmos.