It's a long weekend in the US, and every time one of those comes along, it makes me so happy. I would love to work a 4-day week and have long weekends all the time, but generally by the end of an 8-hour day, my brain is fried. No way could I edit for 10 hours a day. Oh well.
This weekend I actually have two social events, which is a lot for me! But they're both good ones. My local knitter friends meet up for lunch one weekend a month, which is this weekend, and the other event is my first face-to-face meeting with someone I only know through the computer. But not a blogger! Through Zoom.
It seems like recently, a lot of bloggers have had meetups with other bloggers, which is fun to read about. I haven't had that kind of encounter in a long time, but this weekend, I'm meeting someone in a six-degrees-of-separation kind of way from blogging.
Okay, that sounds convoluted.
A few years ago, I started joining an online stretch class that Engie mentioned doing: it's a 15-minute class on Zoom, usually three times a week, and it's a good way to get some movement into your day. I wasn't sure this healthcare place in Wisconsin would want to let me in from Florida, but they've been nothing but welcoming. It's a fun break in the day, and while we move our bodies around, we're likely to be talking about weekend plans and peanut butter cups.
The teacher's husband travels for work, going to conferences and things, and she will sometimes join him if he's going "somewhere fun." And guess where he is this week? Down the street from me! So she and I will be getting together on Monday for coffee/brunch/whatever you want to call it. I'm really looking forward to it.
Have you met anyone in 3D that you only knew through electrons? How was it?
Honestly, the first time I saw Tiffany in person, it was thrilling. I'd only ever seen her via Zoom and it did feel like a celebrity sighting! She's just as great in person - you'll have a great time!
ReplyDeleteWe did! And it was so surreal to have her in my car and be showing her around.
DeleteOh, how fun for you!
ReplyDeleteI've met lots of Online Friends IRL, and it has yet to be anything but pleasant. One of my VBFs is someone I met online decades ago when we both went to a huge meetup. We hit it off and so did our kids and husbands later on.
You, of course! It was great! I've been so glad ever since that you took the time to meet up, and thank you. I've met three other fellow blogging knitters (and two non-blogging ones) when they happened to be in town here as well over the years, plus the ones I met at Stitches East years ago.
ReplyDeleteOne woman was living in my home town and before that had lived two blocks from my house here, and I was like, Hey, I know where that is! And then when she asked me which street I grew up on, she then said, Oh! Which house?
Small small world.
How fun!
ReplyDeleteI have met several bloggers, which is always a delight.
That's so cool you're going to meet someone you met THROUGH another blogger! I've met a handful of bloggers and I feel like we aren't too far from each other that we could make a meetup work at some point!
ReplyDeleteI would love to make that work someday! Right now my life feels a wee bit overwhelming, but maybe we can make that happen in 2027!
DeleteI have! The first time I went to meet a friend from the computer my husband was convinced I was going to end up dead in a ditch, but he's relaxed about it since. I have meet multiple local blog friends, and a handful of far-flung Canadian and American ones. It was really nice to find out that when someone comes across as warm and friendly and genuine online they usually do in real life as well.
ReplyDeleteAt first, it seemed so iffy to non-bloggers, didn't it? Somehow having friends in the computer has become a little less weird.
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