Tonight was a great & very much needed night. First, I can cross off and have already updated my 101 list with some new things. I went to a meet up group tonight. It was the 2nd of the month! April is good. But I do have several more events planned for this month and I just added another. And I want to keep them all!
More bootcamp, the weekend and next weekend (hopefully it will get easier as I go!), tomorrow night I am meeting for dinner for another group, Saturday after bootcamp I have brunch (quickly fly home to shower and get ready to get to bunch by 11!), & I am trying rock climbing again at the end of the month.
There are 2 more things I am signed up for and they are both on my list too! I forgot about one until I was just updating and re-read the list... go sailing! I am signed up for sailing in Boston Harbor for next weekend. That should be fun and hopefully the weather will be nice out. I'm really looking forward to that.
The other even I JUST signed up for was Salsa dancing lessons. I REALLY want to learn how to Salsa. I have been thinking of it and I signed up once, but had to cancel. MIT offers FREE Salsa lessons on Monday nights. Why have I never done this? I don't know. I LOVE dancing, any kind. I think this will be great!
Second thing I wanted to say about tonight... the meet up group I went to. I love this group. I love the organizer. I feel almost selfish about it. I feel like I am taking SO much away from it myself. The people are amazing. They are so open and positive. This is the 2nd month I have gone to an event with them. Tonight I was talking to a guy who said the way he wants to be more successful is to help other people succeed and be happy. And that went into how he dances, INCLUDING SALSA! We kept talking about dancing.... how you can just feel it. I knew this was a sign that I need to be at MIT on Monday night. This is a promise that I am going to keep to myself. I need to start dancing again. I was so happy when I spent 5 nights a week doing some type of dancing. I loved it. I need that in my life again. Monday night I will start! :)
OH!! One more thing... on the "out of my comfort zone". I has sushi tonight. SO NOT my thing. It was good! I was surprised! I didn't know what to get or to order. It isn't like going to an Italian Restaurant where something at least looks familiar. NOTHING was familiar. I asked a couple of people what they thought I should get, to ease into sushi. Someone explained it pretty well... when you first started drinking wine, you started with White Zin. California Rolls are the White Zin of Sushi. :) SO that's what I ordered. I think I'll stick to the sushi version of white zin for a little while before I move on to chardney! :)
But right now, I am in a really good place. I'm happy. I feel good. I like this group, I like these people and I like the positive energy that they bring out in me. I hope that I can find a way to bring this out in myself on my own. I think I can do it! I hope learning to Salsa dance on Monday will help get me on my way! :)