What are your social activities?

It’s always random, but I try to keep busy.

Last week, we went to a concert with 4 friends.

We had a friend over for dinner one night.

Saturday, we sat on our front porch, and chatted/drank/joked with the neighbors from about 7pm - 10pm.

I’m in a bowling league in the fall-spring.

I bicycle with a team every Saturday morning.

I play hacky sack/whiffle ball/lacrosse with the kid next door.

Wife and I go out to eat, go to movies, etc.

I do lunches or golf with the work-mates.

  1. Dinner with friends. We alternate between three couples and a hipster single guy. Drinks, snacks, sit down stuff. After dinner, at my house, everybody has to tell a scary story. I give 'em sherry and liquer and we sit on the deck by candle light (inside around the table in the cold months) and go to it. Also I do themes. We did a Freakness Party in May; everybody wore goofy hats and talked about anything but horse racing. Next hopefully is a Holly Golightly Mod Party with the girls in little black dresses and the dudes in jackets and ties and lots of smoking and martinis and mayhem. We need to get an orange cat.

  2. Karaoke with the same group of friends. I love karaoke. Of *course * I can’t sing. That wouldn’t be any fun. My fave song to sing lately is “High Hopes” from Pal Joey.

  3. Mini trips. (My friend is a travel writer for the Richmond Times Dispatch, so she goes lots of places, usually in the US. When I can I go with her. The paper pays for her, but I have to foot my own expenses.) We go away several times a year for maybe a week at a time. She also visits me as much as possible. Mainly we go out to lunch and go to Amish farm markets and go antique shopping and drink cocktails we invent.

  4. Time with my family. I’m very close to my immediate family. I stay for the weekend at either my parents’ or sister’s house about every other weekend, depending on my schedule. At my sister’s we hang out and go swimming and grill and stuff. My mother gets up at six in the morning and walks, but she’s nuts. At my parents’ house we do pretty much the same thing, but I take time to read there.

  5. Houseguests. Whenever people want to crash is cool. After parties usually. Breakfast the next day. Maybe lunch if they feel like staying. Weekends, I might go to their house for a continuation of the party along with everybody else. We call it Party Part Two, what else? I have planned guests about three times a year.

I think that’s it.

I wish my friends were as interesting as you. :smiley:

Dude! If you lived closer I’d invite you. Or come anyhow; we’re odd but not dangerous!! :cool:

Singing: I sing weekly with a Sweet Adelines chorus.

Knitting: I knit with a group that meets weekly; I usually make it there 3 times a month.

Entertaining: We have another couple/family in for dinner an average of 3 times a month. Also, we host a neighborhood gathering at our home once a month. We have Sunday School parties at our home maybe twice a year, attend SS parties at other places maybe 3 times a year.

Friends: I have lunch/dinner with friends twice a month or so.

Family: Family gatherings maybe once every couple months; more during holidays.

Couple Outings: Himself takes me away someplace for a night or two every three months, at least.

Apparently I’m quite the social butterfly. I didn’t realize.

Friends: We have a get together once a week (dinner, bar, nightclub, cafe, ect).

I’ve recently started doing a bit more. I play bingo twice a week and I joined the local Moose Lodge, where I volunteer serving food on Tuesday nights. I usually spend either one additional afternoon or evening a week out at happy hour listening to music with friends.

Running mostly - I run three-four times a week with company. Two-three times solo. When it gets colder, I’ll trade people for the dog and run three-four times a week with her.

I’d say I hang out with friends nearly every weekend. One friend and I go out for dinner (or I’ll cook, he claims he wants to maintain the relationship and refuses to cook) about twice a month. Three or four other friends I’ll see regularly, either to go out to eat/bar or to go to a park.

I go climb a few times a year, but it’s not regular and I’ll usually run before I resort to climbing.

Research eats the rest of my life.

Family - Every couple of months for holidays, picnics, graduations, etc

Friends - Every couple of weeks for dinner/drinks but now most of our friends are also parents so it’s generally babysitting with a martini in hand. We also have a good number of houseguests throughout the year, and while it seems we don’t see these friends often enough, their visits require that we clear the calendar for an entire week so it’s socially exhausting.

Coworkers - Hardly ever. I work alone and my husband works from home for an office 200 miles away. We used to be invited to the Holiday party but I don’t think we’re even on that list anymore.

Child-led - Too numerous to list. We homeschool and most of my social calendar is consumed by obligations regarding my children.

Neighbors - a couple of times a year, but I’m trying to increase the frequency by organizing a series of community social gatherings.

As a Couple - This was a source of concern for us, so for the last two seasons we have subscribed to a couple of local theater companies so we are forced to make time for dinner and a play at least 8 times a year. My advice to other couples with kids: Do This.

I work in Times Square so pretty much unless we’re stuck at work, someone usually is up for going out a couple times a week. Sometimes “just one” turns into “I’m working from home tomorrow”.

Weekends, I usually hang out with the GF. Past few weekends have been busy with wedings, bachelor parties, stuff like that. Back in the day, sometimes a bunch of us would get a summer shore house or winder ski house. That’s always fun because you and your friends have a designated someplace to go.

Problem is a weekend of boozing is pretty exhausting.

We did this by starting to host a Soup Night. We make a whole bunch of soup, and everyone we know or indeed have ever met is invited. No one is required to bring anything, but they are welcome to, and usually bread and crackers and cheese and snacks and cookies show up as people wander in. We do it once a month. It’s been a smash hit so far, but whether it will be a long-term thing, only time will tell.

Graduated from college a year ago…

-Ice hockey once a week, then beers with the team at the rink

-Movie, dinner, concert, random things during the week with roommates/friends

-On weekends, usually shenanigans at a bar or a party