Not One Familiar Face

Today was Ms. Wise’s birthday and in celebration, after I got off work, I took her out to dinner. We went to this amazing little diner where I had never been before and I had the most amazing pizza in the world. As my usual MO I do not remember the name of the restaurant but I am going to make it a point to ask Ms. Wise the first chance I get. After dinner Ms. Wise and I headed over to the wine bar where all of her friends were going to join us for drinks. I have to admit I was a bit nervous, I was meeting her friends, friends I had never met before. In fact the only person I would know at the party would be Ms. Wise and since she is the birthday girl I knew I would not be seeing much of her. As I sat in the corner and as more and more people piled into the space I started sinking into a more comfortable mindset, I found that her friends were interesting and that all in all I had a pretty good time meeting all the new people.

This experience reminded me that I need to make sure that I don’t get comfortable. Once you get to a certain age, or as I am once I got to this certain age I am beginning to get comfortable in my circles of friends and the types of things that we generally do. So much so that this evening was a little hard for me in the beginning because I had to surge forward in an unknown crowd and make it happen alone. There was not a friend beside me, my man was at home and I just had to make it happen or sit in the corner like a wallflower, which by the way is totally not my style.

I am glad I went, I had a good time and I feel like I met a lot of really cool people. Happy Birthday Ms. Wise!