I need friends

This weekend I'm on my own and it's dawned on me that I don't have any friends at all that are local to me. The friends I have around here live in Connecticut, Long Island or Manhattan. It'd just be so nice to grab a coffee or lunch locally here and hang out for a couple of hours. I've decided this has got to change...so tomorrow I'm actively going to walk around my town and try and meet some people. I'm not really good at that, but I have to make an effort. I"m not sure I want to be advertising on craigslist, so any ideas are welcome!

I'm going to look for some kind of class - cooking would be fun, or wine tasting or something - we'll see. I have loads of time this weekend to figure it out.

I miss my friends from Cedar Rapids and St Louis. I miss the guys in England too, but I get to see them relatively regularly. Maybe I should have got on a plane this weekend and gone to see someone. Maybe I'll do that next time.

Oh yeah, and after my fall earlier in the week my back is killing me....I had a massage tonight thinking that'd help, but it'll be a couple of days yet before I know whether it has or not. Wesley (my massage therapist) is great, but he gives "deep tissue massage" a whole new meaning. I have never really figured out why I like it to hurt so much because I saw "oooowwwweeeeee" a hell of a lot - that said, I know I always feel better in the end.

I'm even bored with TV - so I know I need to do something else......