Over the past year or two, I've been an irregular volunteer for both of the places for which I help out. My weekend schedule had gotten in the way of me attending many Arts Westchester events. And my declining interest got in the way of helping out at the LGBT Center. I needed something to motivate me to get up and out on a daily basis, and that involved both a sense of purpose and a desire to earn money.
Since it looks like I'll soon be working at the Census bureau, I doubt that I will have any free time to do any volunteering for a while. And this is just as well - I needed a break from my old routine, as I was getting more and more inclined to stay indoors all day. This is not a healthy thing to do, as evidenced by my dad's former home life before moving into the nursing home.
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By the time I got moving, it was late in the afternoon, and I didn't have the time to do a volunteer stint AND make it to the Fun Time Friends meetup in Wilton, CT. So I sent an email to the LGBT Center's volunteer coordinator to tell him that I'd either be in tomorrow or on Monday.
When I finally made it out of the house, it was a bit late for me to make it on time. There was no way that I was going to take Route 95 from here, as rush hour traffic would slow things to a crawl. Instead, I took the roads to the venue and made it to dinner only a few minutes late.
Arriving at the venue, I sat down next to the organizer and we had a great time. There was one woman there who could have been my sister, and she recognized me as well. This is a very friendly bunch of people - possibly more so than the folks in Beacon. (Just don't tell the Beacon folks that....) While chatting with the organizer, I found that she had an interest in visiting Chinatown in the Spring. So I suggested we do so when it's convenient for her - and we may do that when the weather gets warmer. I could use as many friends as possible who know me as Marian, and not as Mario. It would be nice to add a "sane" friend to my address book.
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Earlier in the day, GFJ called me on her way home from Baltimore. While on the call, she had to hang up, telling me to call back when I was on the road to the meetup. I did just that, and didn't get an answer. Could the problem have been to a nationwide problem with Verizon Wireless? Who knows? When I tried to reach her on the way home from my meetup, there was also no answer for me. Since Facebook Messenger shows her as inactive, all I can think is that she has a problem with her phone connecting to the outside world. Hopefully, she made it to her meetup OK....
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