What are your social activities?

This is partly as a poll and partly to give me some ideas of things to do. :stuck_out_tongue:

So, what does your weekly schedule look like in terms of social activities? How much time do you spend going to parties, eating out with friends, etc.? What kinds of social clubs/church groups/team sports do you participate in?

I’m currently in a state of limbo, so my only real social scene is my job for 30 hours per week, and my weekly karaoke on Wednesday night. I do a mean karaoke :slight_smile:

When I’m back in school, my weekly routine is comprised of karate practice, partying with friends, church, and online videogames.

Once or twice a month, I go out with my coworkers for dinner after work.
I see friends at least 3 times a week, usually one night out somewhere (bar, club, restaurant) and the others at someone’s house for a movie, dinner, or just hanging out.
My family lives up north, so I only see them maybe two or three times a year, but I spend as much time with them then as I can.
During the summer I hit the beach a lot more, just to walk along the water and catch the sunset. Sometimes friends join me.
I’m not a winter person, so I tend to hibernate during those few months.
I have a part-time job in addition to my 40-hour that I look forward to because I like pretty much everyone. I see them and get updates on their lives.
I have many friends up north that I keep in contact with via phone or emails, so I try to connect with someone at least every few days.

We would like to entertain more, but we’re lucky if it happens any more than 3 or 4 times a year. We may get invitations to parties another 3-4 times a year, and we try to go to all of those (but not always can). I don’t do anything with people from my work, though my company has a couple annual parties (which we rarely attend); my wife does go out to dinner with colleagues, though that usually constitutes more “business” than “pleasure”. No clubs or social organizations to speak of, and most of our friends are either single or married w/kids, so there aren’t many couples we socialize with who are like us.

So, I’d say we do something genuinely social at most once every other month. And that’s in a really busy year.

I row competetively so my team’s practices are my main social outlet. That’s three to four times a week. We also generally go eat breakfast together after Saturday morning practice.
Extra training sessions with team mates, currently once every couple of weeks.
There’s usually a team party at least once a month. (I threw the last big one in May and had over 60 people) And we’ll have a big night on the town at least every couple of months.
Drinks after evening practices, about once a month (for me, some people go every week).
Lunch and dinner with various friends at least weekly, shopping twice a month, and a movie with a group at least monthly.

I socialize a lot less than some of my team mates do. A lot of them go to a weekly “Stitch n’Bitch” to knit and gossip but I don’t knit. I also don’t really socialize with coworkers (other than the occasional lunch) as I like to keep work and off-hours seperate.

I bet you’ll see a big divide between the married and the singles in terms of time spent socially.

College is where it’s at. I’m at parties whenever I can be. When I can’t find one, I throwone. In the summer, I’m mostly with the girlfriend and work. As far as clubs, I do chess club twice a week during school. BTW, it’s nice to not be in junior high anymore and people actually get that chess is just a board game.

Every week or two a few folks go out after work for drinks and food. Once a month I go to quilt guild. The rest of the month I just couch and quilt.

So, I’m no help!

[ul][li]Baseball. Right now, my social life is pretty much my boyfriend and our season baseball tickets. It’s amazing how much time I spend just going to games.[/li][li]Bar. We typically hit the same local bar most weekends (he’s been a regular there for 5 years, so he has bar friends).[/li][li]Restaurants. We go out to dinner 1-3 times a week, and every now and then I’ll meet some former co-workers for lunch. [/li][li]Friends. My only other local friends are my best friend and his wife and son, and I see them once a month or so.[/li][li]The track. Once a year I take my car to a raceway for a high-speed driving course. It’s more social than you’d think, because there’s plenty of off-track time. This year I might go twice.[/li]School. In the spring/fall I attend grad school. I’m not saying you should run out and get an MA, but maybe an evening class or two at the local community college?[/ul]

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[li]School. In the spring/fall I attend grad school. I’m not saying you should run out and get an MA, but maybe an evening class or two at the local community college?[/ul][/li][/QUOTE]

Already done with that, but thanks for the suggestion. :wink:

I’m married with a 5 year old. I sit alone in my garage and play loud music and drink. Heavily. Every single night. For the rest of my life. :frowning:

I play Magic the Gathering at least once a week, often twice. I’ll see the people I play Magic with in a non-Magic setting once a week or so, on average. Every few weeks I gamesmaster a roleplaying session with… the people I play Magic with. Apart from them, I have one old friend that I meet every now and again.

It’s no wonder I’m still single. I need to work on expanding my social circles.

Hey… I don’t know what to say. You do know that no matter what’s wrong, there is always an out, right? You may not see it, but it’s there. And drinking daily is really not it. Trust me on this.

I think you should start an MPSIMS thread and let Dopers help you out. We’re dead good at it. This doesn’t have to be the rest of your life.

You know nothing… :smiley:

Once every 3 or 4 months I’ll do something social with a friend from school. In the last couple of weeks I’ve been more social than the whole preceding 2 years, actually.

Monday night is karaoke.
Tuesday night should really be trivia night, but right now it’s assing out in front of the tv because it’s the night before my day off. It feels like my only time off right now.
Wednesday morning is coffee with my old co-worker. Wednesday evening is keeping score and track of fouls at my company’s men’s league basketball games. My husband and my male co-workers are on the team. I also created and administrate the team website and message boards.
Work has become a social activity in itself. I really like my co-workers. Often, we go out for drinks after work.
Randomly throughout the week, when I’m not doing anything else, I drop into my old workplace and chat with my old co-workers/friends. Sometimes we go out for tea; sometimes I bring treats to them.
Sundays are family day; hang out with the in-laws, go to Everett and visit my husband’s grandmama, etc.

I go to a lot of company meetings; as I mentioned above, work is becoming a social activity. They’re all good folks, and I like hanging out with them. I go to meetings not just because it’s good practice, but because I like them all and I’d probably do it anyway. Plus I learn a lot of good stuff.

I’m sleepy. I’ve been living on Rockstar drinks.

We usually have people drop by a couple of times a week, go out for dinner once or so a week, go over to friends’ houses once a week. Maybe twice a month we go to the pub with Mr. Lissar’s dojo crowd, which is rowdy and fun. Church, and sometimes socialising after. I see my Mom for coffee or a meal about once a week.

We have about ten friends we run into or do things with weekly or biweekly, and a bunch more we see less frequently. We have houseguests visit about four times a year.

This makes us sound much busier than we are. Most of our friends are of the show-up-and-rummage-through-the-fridge variety. It’s no effort to do stuff with them. We’re working and married, with a kid on the way.

So you have a PhD and can’t think of ways to socialize … suddenly it all makes sense… :wink:

Bar: A few times a week when we can afford it.
Lunch: Every few months I go with some folks from work for lunch.
Dinner: We don’t go out to dinner.
Friends: Every once in a blue moon we see family/friends - usually for an occasion, but once in a while my husband’s brother and best friend will drop in. Rarely do other friends drop in.

I have lunch once a week with a good buddy of mine.
I’m the chairman of the board of trustees of the local library, so I’m involved there. Monthly meetings.
We have friends over every other week or so on weekends for dinner, drinks, hot tub
Dinner and a movie, dancing, or other fun stuff with my wife and another couple or two couple times a month
Day trips to resorts for sitting by the pool, drinking too much, and backgammon six to ten times a summer
Adult “social” get togethers with a group three or four times a year (or more if we’re travelling out of town)

Oops, forgot this:

Tennis 2 or 3 nights a night at the neighbor’s house.

We’re a very social family.