I was brave and went to a blog party on Saturday. I had never met any of these women, except on-line, and only a few of them at that. But I have been enjoying their blogs and thus their lives and I know that the only real way to make connections is to get outside the good old comfort zone. So I went. I met the fabulous Jill, who hosted the whole event. And I met Amy, who takes the most fantastic pictures. And as if I didn't spend enough time on the computer already, now I have a LONG list of new blogs to read written by the other great women I met Saturday night (Jana, Jenn, Jenny, Michelle, Collette, Jennifer, Crystalyn, Lori, Rachel, Claudia, to name a few).
I came away from the evening with these thoughts/confirmations:
-I am not an extrovert
-its hard to get out of your comfort zone
-you are blessed when you do
-blogging is fun
-blogging can change your life
-I want to develop life-long friendships and the only way to do that is to work at it
-I love the good mail concept and want to start sending it
-I want to start a book club
-I should throw more parties
-I want to be a happiness maker
-there are some amazingly funny, smart, talented, energetic, just plain fabulous women out there
Jill, thank you for putting this together. You were a delight to meet and watch interact with everybody. I am so sorry you ended up with a migraine. I look forward to many more get-togethers with you and the others I met, even if its only in cyberspace.
7 comments:
How in the world do you have time to read so many blogs, no matter how wonderful and inspiring they are and speed reader though you may be?
Yes, it *is* hard to get out of your comfort zone and go to something like that! I'm glad you had a good time.
I was glad I meet you and got to visit with you. Love the photos of your children. I also did not know anyone when I went. Walked a way feeling alot like you did.
I seriously am sad I didn't make it over to the other side of the room a little more- I met you and remember the introductions, but wish I would have chatted a bit. Looking forward to getting to know you better now :)
I meant to talk to you all night after you said where you were from. I actually went to lunch with Denise the day before the party and we were talking about how there was another blogger from the exact same place as her. Funny.
Although I didn't get to talk to you, I'm going to enjoy reading your blog:)
It is challenging to get out of comfort zones for sure, but I think blogging seriously helps make that possible. It's so much easier to meet people when you're already familiar with so much about them from their blogs. I feel like I can sit down with anybody I'm familiar with blogwise and chat away all day. It's liberating.
i too am not and extrovert! i am an infp (i'm jealous of your 'j'). so glad i got a chance to meet you and chat for a bit. your pics are great! love your color. and that posing...well, that just rocks ( :
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