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stitchwhichMy local social circle is pretty small nowadays, after I "quit" the local SCA group. While I see my friends in regular settings (mostly having lunch together), the only other time I am out socially is when the archery community decides to go out after a practise (my husband is an archer and most of the archers are friends of mine). But... *sigh* ... they are almost all also brewers. And that means wherever they choose to go after shooting butts, the decision will be based on how many microbrews will be available. In other words, a pub. If it was just a case of "let's hit the pub" I would not be disgruntled. And I sure don't want anyone to reduce their enjoyment on my behalf, especially when I am a +1 and not a member of the archery community. But dang it, pubs don't have anything remotely resembling healthy food. Certainly not for diabetics. (That would be kinda weird, really.) So while everyone else is drinking two or three new-to-them beers and eating pepperoni pizza, I'm sipping a diet soda and picking at a tiny appetizer pretending that it is lunch. And thus, the sighing. There was a pub near an indoor shooting place that served fabulous, delicious ribs, but at some point a couple of our archers had a falling out with the shooting gallery's management and we don't go there anymore. It's too far to go for just a meal, being across the James River from us. (Where the James meets Chesapeake Bay so it takes about 30-40 minutes to cross/go under the water.) So there! I have voiced my grump. It's not about hanging with drinkers, it's that where there is good microbrew hunting there does not seem to be good food.
I have to go get a Covid test today. Not really "have to", but the two people who we socialize with most are coming over to hang out for NYE and I have a cold/flu/sniffly thing going on. Just enough symptoms to warrant making sure it is a cold or regular winter respiratory thing. I dread going given the timing. Everyone coming home from their Christmas travels are crowding the testing centers. Which I have not been in since last year. I'll say one thing for masking - it has certainly cut down on winter flues and colds!
Wait. No Covid test. Or at least, no rapid Covid test, which means that I wouldn't have an answer before tomorrow night. I contacted the two roomies (they room together) and left it up to them as to whether they are comfortable with me being out with them or not.
We registered for Atlantian Twelfth Night and I think I posted about making Tomten as the beginning of my gift crafting. And now we aren't going. The Omicron infection rate is too high for us to be willing to go hang out in a room with people from five other states. That, and what we were really looking forward to was spending time with friends who'd be hosting us at their house, but he's 75, diabetic, and has had a quadruple bypass. I just can't see us visiting with them, leaving from that big gathering, and then bringing back whatever germs we picked up to share with our hosts afterwards. We have to talk about our decision with the person who was going to travel with us before we definitely cancel but I know he's not going to want to risk our hosts either. However - we could, if they would like, come spend the weekend with them in their isolation (they are very much homebodies) and just hang out together for the weekend. That would be fun too.
I have to go get a Covid test today. Not really "have to", but the two people who we socialize with most are coming over to hang out for NYE and I have a cold/flu/sniffly thing going on. Just enough symptoms to warrant making sure it is a cold or regular winter respiratory thing. I dread going given the timing. Everyone coming home from their Christmas travels are crowding the testing centers. Which I have not been in since last year. I'll say one thing for masking - it has certainly cut down on winter flues and colds!
Wait. No Covid test. Or at least, no rapid Covid test, which means that I wouldn't have an answer before tomorrow night. I contacted the two roomies (they room together) and left it up to them as to whether they are comfortable with me being out with them or not.
We registered for Atlantian Twelfth Night and I think I posted about making Tomten as the beginning of my gift crafting. And now we aren't going. The Omicron infection rate is too high for us to be willing to go hang out in a room with people from five other states. That, and what we were really looking forward to was spending time with friends who'd be hosting us at their house, but he's 75, diabetic, and has had a quadruple bypass. I just can't see us visiting with them, leaving from that big gathering, and then bringing back whatever germs we picked up to share with our hosts afterwards. We have to talk about our decision with the person who was going to travel with us before we definitely cancel but I know he's not going to want to risk our hosts either. However - we could, if they would like, come spend the weekend with them in their isolation (they are very much homebodies) and just hang out together for the weekend. That would be fun too.
