Pagan meetup
Nov. 13th, 2003 02:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
celticdragonflySo a while back somebody had posted about a poly meetup, on one of the LJ communities, which introduced me to the concept of meetup.com. Fascinating. I signed up for a bunch of local Fort Worth communities, including the poly one, figuring it was a good way of getting to meet local people. Sadly, most of them have been coming up with not enough people in the area voting on a location to actually HAVE a meeting. Lessee, I've signed up for stay at home moms, homebirth, homeschooling, pagans, pagan homeschooling, pagan parents, knitting....
So anyway, the pagan group actually had enough people for meetings, and they had one last night at the downtown Barnes and Noble. We ended up going really late - had to wait for the guy checking out our A/C-heat to be done (looks like the problem that the previous owners were to have fixed before closing didn't get fixed. Darn thing keeps blowing the circuit breaker. Agh), but there were still a good many people sitting in the cafe and chatting.
We sat down and started talking to the people at that end of the tables. Karl had to go off to keep the kids occupied for a while - he's such a saint of a daddy - and ended up setting Brendan up in the kids area to sit and read happily. What a good boy. Then he got to come back and Maggie got to flirt with people. We met a lady who works with the local UU church that has a CUUPS pagan group, and is setting up a Spiral Scouts group for kids. Yay, we'd hoped to find something like that! Not really close to us, but not too bad. Got contact cards for her and another lady. Chatted with lots of people, hoping to see them again next month.
Got home kinda late, and I was REALLY tired out. Sigh, actually next month may not work, Thumper may be too newborn and me too postpartum wiped out to go. But at least we were meeting some local pagans. And it was just nice to sit around and chat about anything and everything with other people.
So anyway, the pagan group actually had enough people for meetings, and they had one last night at the downtown Barnes and Noble. We ended up going really late - had to wait for the guy checking out our A/C-heat to be done (looks like the problem that the previous owners were to have fixed before closing didn't get fixed. Darn thing keeps blowing the circuit breaker. Agh), but there were still a good many people sitting in the cafe and chatting.
We sat down and started talking to the people at that end of the tables. Karl had to go off to keep the kids occupied for a while - he's such a saint of a daddy - and ended up setting Brendan up in the kids area to sit and read happily. What a good boy. Then he got to come back and Maggie got to flirt with people. We met a lady who works with the local UU church that has a CUUPS pagan group, and is setting up a Spiral Scouts group for kids. Yay, we'd hoped to find something like that! Not really close to us, but not too bad. Got contact cards for her and another lady. Chatted with lots of people, hoping to see them again next month.
Got home kinda late, and I was REALLY tired out. Sigh, actually next month may not work, Thumper may be too newborn and me too postpartum wiped out to go. But at least we were meeting some local pagans. And it was just nice to sit around and chat about anything and everything with other people.
