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Science After Hours, Or Perhaps Not So Much

So, tonight was another Science After Hours.  I didn't end up going.  It started that my one friend who was supposed to buy the tickets with her membership kept delaying on giving me an answer on if she wanted to go.  I asked her every couple weeks starting right after the last SAH...

She kept saying that she was "thinking about it".

I got a notice that other day that tickets were going quick.  I was going to purchase a ticket just for myself...

But just decided not to.  I mean, okay, yes, Science After Hours is fun... But, I don't know... It's not productive really.  It's 20 bucks for the ticket, then like 15 or 20 bucks for some drinks and a snack, then another 20 bucks for parking.

At the end of that 3 hours, I come home...  After each of the Science After Hours, I didn't get a number, or a new Facebook friend... I didn't get invited to anything else that could possibly lead me to, the whole reason why I started going to them in the first place, to lead me to meeting someone special.

I mean, we're not even discussing "The One" here... I'm just talking about meeting anyone, like even just someone to date for a few months, or even 6 months or a year.

Nothing.  So, I'm not saying I'm no longer going to attend them... It's just, I'd rather come home after work, make a nice dinner, relax and watch Netflix, and then work on music, then maybe go to the gym...

That's what I did tonight instead.  So, I saved myself nearly 60 bucks that I can put towards paying for the fee to upload a new song when I finish my next one.  And then on top of that, I actually am working a little bit more on fixing some errors and also working on cover art.

So, instead of running around getting blank stares when I try to strike up conversations... I got some work done, I messaged back and forth with a couple of online dating site matches, I made dinner, and I'm about to go to the gym.  And I have 60 extra bucks in my pocket.

I might revisit Science After Hours eventually... But I'd rather put my resources, not only financially, but my time and energy towards other things.

At least I have something that I know I can do when I do finally meet someone.  I think it could make a fun thing to do with someone maybe if I meet someone and we start dating.

Instead, I think I might focus more on staying home, and working on things.

Plus, I have other expenses coming up, like taxes for the house, and I have to get some things around the house fixed up... Although, some of those things I'm going to do myself and hit up Home Depot, and also hit up IKEA to buy a few things.  I want a new fridge obviously, and washer and dryer, but I also want a new couch, and I want to personalize some of the rooms more and repaint.  I also want to just decorate a little better... and then on top of that I want to buy like some little furniture things here and there.  You know, I really want to Pinterest up the house a little.

Instead of going out and hoping to meet a special someone... I'd rather just take a break and make a better space to live in and enjoy the house.

A lot of people have told me to enjoy the time I have by myself, because if I do meet someone, and if it did work out and we got married and had kids, I'd never have a situation like I do right now where I have a house to myself.

I guess that's true...

So, I'm going to take a bit of a break from all the going out all the time.  There are a couple of events that I'd like to go to that seem like they will be fun.  My next event that I'm interested in is to go see a band play that I saw over the summer and have been waiting for them to come back to the area.  I saw them at Musikfest up in Bethlehem and in two weeks they are playing in New Hope at a place there.

So, I'll probably head to that.  But, yeah, maybe just do one or two things a month and then just kind of stay in a lot more and work on stuff around the house.

I mean, obviously the last year I've gone out a LOT.  I actually kept a log of the events I went to... Like, all the festivals and what not... And while they were fun, and I actually did make a few friends at a couple of the events... The vast majority of them I left the event without gaining anything out of it.  I had fun.  But I have fun sitting at home watching Netflix.  I have fun playing guitar and working on music.  I have fun working on various things at a coffee shop.

So... I skipped out on Science After Hours tonight.  Who knows, maybe the future love of my life might have been there tonight and we might have run into one another... But I mean, if I'm supposed to meet her when I 'm supposed to meet her... Then if she was at Science After Hours tonight... I just wasn't meant to meet her yet.

Instead I have a cat on my lap as I type this.  So, if nothing else... I have happier cats because they got to hang out with me all night.  So there's always that too!