Rock Climbing + other random thoughts

I signed up for a meetup group for tonight. It was a rock climbing event at REI. I came pretty close to cancelling or just blowing it off. The reason? I tried rock climbing once, at a fair. I made it up no problem, but I was supposed to repel down. I couldn't do it! I'm not kidding, I couldn't do it at all! The guy needed to climb up to get me down! I sat up there for over 10 minutes. I just couldn't do it. That's why I almost cancelled tonight.
But I showed up at REI. There were 3 other women there, plus the guide. I was shaking!!! The guide had us climb up maybe 5 feet then practice how to get down. I think she saw how scared I was. But I got over the fear and climbed up that climbing wall.
Not only did I climb the indoor climbing structure, I did it 4 times!! (Well, more like 3 1/2. I gave up on the 4th one because my hands were starting to sweat and I couldn't get a grip anymore without my hands slipping.)
I'm so proud that I did it! And the 3 other women were so encouraging too! It was really nice to hear "Great job Julie! Keep going!" It was fun and I'm just happy that I did it.
I did bring my camera. Probably would have been better if I checked the battery before today. It turned on for about 10 seconds. I was going to have a picture of me plus the other women there. Granted having a harness around your butt with a camera below you really isn't the most flattering picture!! So maybe it is a really good thing that I had no batteries! :)
I'm still sore from the boot camp class on Saturday. I know tomorrow I'm going to be hurting tomorrow from rock climbing. Listen to me... boot camp, rock climbing, don't I sound like the little adventurer! WOW!!

I have been doing on line dating. I had one date so far, and I don't know if I would even call it a date. Met him at a biker bar (real biker bar.. the sign outside says "no colors allowed"!!) and when the $9 bill came for our 2 beers, he pulled out $6. Nice, huh?
Now I tried Chemistry.com. This is a little different from Match.com and I think I like it a little bit better. There are several steps before you are even "allowed" to email someone, and it must be mutual all along the way. If I say I'm not interested, then the guy can't email me. I think I like this. So far I've made to email status with 2 different people. Something completely different than what I'm used to, but I think I like this. So far, so good, but different just the same.

I've been working really hard to get out and stay out of my comfort zone. This week alone has been crazy! This is nice and exactly what I needed. I even emailed someone today from one of the meetups I did last week and I asked her if she wanted to get together for dinner. I think we are in a couple of weeks, just trying to figure out our schedules. It gets harder to make friends the older you get. Not always fun being a grown up!