This year, through a number of circumstances, I will be alone over the Thanksgiving Day holiday weekend. I have been trying to convince myself that it’s okay but the more I worked on psyching myself up to be okay with it, the more I realized that I was not going to like being alone. I thought that I might volunteer at a homeless shelter or something but in the end, my daughter is going to borrow my car to go out of state so I will also be without transportation. And although the Portland Metro area has an extensive public transportation system, I’m in a rural area and the bus just doesn’t go near me. I would have to drive to the transportation center and leave my car and take a bus in to town. In the end, my bus trip would be shorter than my drive to the transportation center. I won’t have a car to drive there so that’s out.
Just as I was starting to feel a panic about being alone, I read a Facebook post that came across my Wall. It seems that there is a reading event in which I can participate this weekend! I’ve done similar events in the past and have really enjoyed them. So I signed up to participate in Thankfully Reading, the 2010 edition. This will be great! This type of event offers participants the opportunity to participate in a group event independently. Through blog comments and FB posts and Twitter tweets, we all get to know a little about one another and about what we are reading. It’s a wonderful way to make friends and get some leads for books to read in the future.
Now I am looking forward to the weekend and looking through my Kindle books to see what I want to read this weekend. I’m excited!
You are so resourceful. I’ll bet a lot of readers are going to fall in love with you this holiday. 🙂
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Well, that’s a good way to deal with being alone this weekend, you’ll be alone but not lonely, not with good books to read and an internet wide audience to share your thoughts with 🙂
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