URNotAlone

Run, Run, Run While you Can!!!

January 10th, 2008 7:04 am MST

January 5th, 2008 I finally made it out to my first Tri-Ess meeting ever. I had no idea what to expect really other than I knew I would be meeting alot of new people with a common 'feature'. After spending hours getting ready beforehand, and ready to head off to the meeting with my gg, I looked down and noticed a run in my stocking! Fabulous!!!, I thought. Off with the shoe, off with the ankle bracelet, off with the stocking, rummage through the hosery drawer only to find I didn't have another stocking the same style and color. Meanwhile, the perspiration from it all, nerves included,  is starting to build so on goes the ceiling fan until I can sort out this mess. Of course my gg has been patiently ready to leave and at the point, is believing I will never return from the bedroom to attend the event. Time is passsing and now we will be late of course; all this playing head games with me trying to hurry and go. So off comes the other shoe and stocking, on goes a new pair of FF stockings, ankle braclet with that damn teeny weenie clip, heels, fix my hair, and out the door we go, finally!

On with the air conditioning so I can relax a tad during the drive which only took like 10 minutes to arrive at the meeting location. Now, having never been to these meetings before, we had no idea how to actually get into the meeting, but the lovely security guard standing near the building was gracious enough to direct me in the right direction( of course he knew silly). So we went to one of the two doors to the meeting, of course it was locked, but we could see everyone, so rather than try the other door like normal intelligent people, I decided we would go around to the patio door and enter from there. So here we are standing on one side of the patio door, watching everyone eating(remember now, we are late), I try the patio door but it's jammed shut, well I'm not going to break a nail forcing the door open, so we stand there like two bumps on a log until someone from inside eventually opens the door.  lol I tell you, the sweat from nerves was flowing like the Niagara Falls by now! Finally we're in! My first impression was, "ok, where's the welcoming party"? My next thought was, " holy shit, is it ever quiet in here!" Of course everyone was eating and no one paid attention to two more people in the room other than I suppose they thought to themselves, " don't recognize them!". Finally someone I did recognize from their websites' photos greeted us graciously and gave us a quick intro. which made we feel we were in the correct location for the evening. We settled in nicely, meet some super nice people, dinner finished shortly afterwards, I crossed my legs to relax and wait for the guest speaker to begin, and my sapphire bracelet caught on the same damn stocking I destroyed just minutes before!.  Can you believe it? Two pair of FF RHT stockings shot in one night! lol, ain't life a bitch! I'm now thinking to myself, I better buy these babies in bulk if I plan on wearing jewelry around them 'cause there is no way I'll make it through a complete evening without destroying a couple of pairs of these.

The bottom line though is we had a terrific evening, one we will truly remember. Yes, the nerves disappeared after 5 minutes of attendance, well, until I destroyed my hose anyway! Tri_ess are wonderful people and anyone wanting to go out for an evening should look up their local Tri-Ess chapter and attend a meeting. You'll love it girl!

Hugs, Jill