My problem with the housewarming
March 19th, 2007
The thing with the housewarming really comes down to this: I hate people in my space. Its been that way since I’ve been a kid. I’d much rather have some kind of event at someone elses house than have people over to mine. I live in a studio. Its like having a party in your bedroom. The other thing is that I’m not entirely sure anyone would come. And if anyone did, they would really just be mostly Scott’s friends anyway, since I have exactly 1 non-Scott friend. 1-non Scott friend and 2 bosses and 1 co-worker who all live in North Hollywood and Pasadena (aka too far to travel to Culver City).
I’d rather just save myself the stress and dissapointment. So, sorry Maxwell, I think I may bow out of this portion of the Eight Week Cure, as much as I’d like to make pretty invitations.
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1. graphxgrrl | March 19th, 2007 at 1:27 am
It’s rather what I’m struggling with as well. I have enough trouble organizing more than one of my friends to be in the same place at the same time, let alone having them over to my house. The last time I invited people over it resulted in 1 coworker + my parents (a long story involving power outages that lasted for weeks), prior to that it was 2 friends and 2 coworkers (neither group knowing the other). Awkward.
As a result I’m thinking it’ll be just me having a friend over with a bottle of wine or similar when all this is done.
2. Jessica | March 19th, 2007 at 1:32 am
Wanna come down from Seattle for my housewarming and I’ll come to yours?
3. zooza | March 19th, 2007 at 2:40 am
I’m bailing on the housewarming, too. It would either be a very sad affair with my three close friends (two of whom don’t get on) or word would get out with my husband’s friends and I’d be descended upon by lots of people I don’t know who would get drunk and trash the place. I think I might just tie a ribbon across the front door, make a speech (to myself) and cut the ribbon and then have a glass of champagne.
4. graphxgrrl | March 19th, 2007 at 9:07 am
Perhaps we can still send each other pretty invitations we’ve made?
5. Lorrie | March 19th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Thank you for the happy birthday wishes…you tell scott that I had steak on steak and blowjob day…and well…the other part…er uhm
anyhow, I see things are moving along in the house of jessica…
i really need this book as my apartment floor is covered in clothing and junk mail…sigh. schedules make me itch.
I know what you mean about this housewarming thing. I don’t have friends here and lord knows josh doesnt have any friends besides steve, and well thats that.
Its weird to try and have friends as an adult. Sometimes I want to have people over to drink wine and play the wii or someone to come over and do creative stuff with, but alas I am reminded that I’m not 14 and most people my age would rather not haha
Maybe you could have a housewarming with you and scott
6. angorian | March 19th, 2007 at 11:41 am
Making friends is much harder as an adult when you don’t have school to throw you together with lots of potential friends. But there’s no reason a housewarming has to be a big party. You could have a dinner party with just 1 or 2 guests. You could even use it as a way to meet someone new. Ask your non-Scott friend to bring another friend that you have never met. Any house-blessing ritual will be a good way to mark the end of the cure. It’s not the number of people involved that matters. Good luck with the cure!
7. Jessica | March 19th, 2007 at 11:51 am
Thanks guys! I didn’t want to seem like I was throwing a pity-party… just stating why I wasn’t that interested in the housewarming.
Lorrie, if I were back in Brooklyn, we would totally have wine and craft and wii nights. And the book is awesome. Its really helpful to have a group to do it with. You should totally get it and jump in!
Angorian: You have great suggestions! That’s actually a pretty good idea.
Zooza: You should have the husband take pictures of your house-unveiling. And wear a tophat!
graphxgrrl: If I make something, I will give you a shout for your address so you can have pretty mail that isn’t bills!
8. graphxgrrl | March 19th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Oh hey, so I could more easily follow along on your cure blogging, I added you as an RSS feed to my LiveJournal. When doing so I noticed you had an old account there (as it wouldn’t let me add the feed as just “twergi” as a result). If you ever use that at all to read other journals, let me know and I’ll add you to mine so you can follow along on my cure related blogging (I lock down most of my posts there).
And I would love to get some pretty mail!
9. smallcitybeth | March 21st, 2007 at 4:13 pm
How ’bout what I did in the Fall Cure? I had an online HouseWarming, using my Flickr pics. I did an invite, posted it for the people in the Cure, and sent it to a few friends here, there, and everywhere. It worked well for me.
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