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It seems like forever since I've written an Odyssey. Oh, wait...the last one was in January. That IS just about forever. So what's been going on since then? Wow, where do I start?
In January we had just topped 1000 members on Meetup plus about 1500 off of Meetup. Just the weekend before
this one we eclipsed 1500 on Meetup. More importantly almost half of our membership is considered "active" by Meetup standards - that is that they've at least visited the Singles Odyssey Meetup site within the last month.
With the name change we
changed the WebSite domain as well (from SoCalSinglesEvents.org to the
current SinglesOdyssey.org). I just checked Alexa.com (a site that
ranks the popularity of web sites) and our ranking is below 2.5 million
World Wide and below 640,000 in the US which means that there are 2.5
million more popular sites worldwide and 640,000 in the US. Those
numbers may seem high until you consider that that ranks it against
EVERY other web site on the Internet and our site is very subject and
geographically specific. We're actually pretty proud of those
numbers. When we post new pictures we often see just short of
10,000 page loads in a single day!
We had a great New Year's Eve party in January. Can you believe that was half a year ago? Whoa! We've added new venues for dance parties, brought live music back into the mix and have added a slew of other, new types of events. We've added
three more people to our Organizing Team and lost one.
Personally I returned to college for my Psych Degree (although I may well change to Sociology) and had an out of body experience as far as the grades I pulled. This last semester I got a 3.75 over all and a 4.0 in CSU transferable classes. I was NEVER that kind of student and the funny thing is that even after doing that I still think I've got a long way to go to be the kind of student
that I need to be. I start CSUF in the fall. I'm 33 units from my degree. So, while I haven't written an Odyssey in quite a while...I'VE BEEN WRITING!
I sold my house in January, took a pretty sizeable amount of cash out and am now looking to buy down a bit but to pay cash! Having a paid-for home is the beginning of real freedom in my opinion and I just need the market to dip A LITTLE bit more and I'm there!
Anyway, that's where I've been. Maybe it might be a good time for YOU to look back and take a mid-year assessment of what you've done and what you've accomplished. If you're comfortable sharing with the group, feel free to do it in the forum comment thread about the Odyssey.
In April Emily wrote an Odyssey about
Choices and Compromises that I told her at the time I had some thoughts on that and wanted to write a rebuttal. She said, "Go for it. That would be fun." So here I am
almost three months later getting to. Actually it's a short rebuttal so tagging it onto the end of another Random Musing works.
Emily talks about settling for less than what a person wants in a mate. She makes some very good points and I would never suggest that someone should be with someone just to be with SOMEONE. "I'd rather be alone than wish I was." However, her Odyssey also brought up some things in me that I'd been thinking about for quite some time. I hear singles all the time talk about what they want in another. This generally starts to take the form of lists of criteria that would make a person acceptable or not. We start to set up a cookie cutter idea of what someone should be. My concern is that that gets in the way of being able to enjoy a person for who they are. One spends more time seeing how they don't measure up or fit into the cookie cutter instead of what they have to offer. One may miss the opportunity to enjoy some really great people and perhaps even re-evaluate what they think they want vs. what they might find if they open their mind. Again, if it ain't right, it ain't right but I would really suggest opening up to the possibility of what a person IS vs. what
they ARE NOT.
In my dating history I have a wide variety of different types of ladies, both personality and physically. I like that. I've always said, "If I want to date a lady like any of my ex's, why wouldn't I just go back and start dating that ex again?" So, let people be themselves and enjoy who they are vs. who they aren't! OK, enough preaching.
Again...where is the humor in this Random Musing?
Ooops. OK...
What's the difference between and Outlaw and an Inlaw? An Outlaw is actually wanted!
Hope you all have/had a safe
and fun 4th of July!
If I’ve said anything that offends anyone, then you’ve put way more weight into my words than
they deserve. If I’ve said anything profound, it was strictly by accident. If I’ve sounded like I actually know what I’m talking about, then we really need to talk about a business opportunity that I can get you in on the
ground floor of.
“Treat each other well…”
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