Knit 2 Together

The wedding dramarama has been resolved, but only after I reluctantly defended my relationship. I hated having to convince my friend that my "new" boyfriend did not fall into the category of "random date," but I knew that if I skipped the wedding due to this issue it would just cause my resentment to fester and affect our friendship. Again, this is why I hate weddings. They drive people apart with all the stupid rules and etiquette issues! Anyway, she agreed to let CG attend, but only after joking that we had to sign a contract saying we'd be together in a year. Yeah, she was just kidding, except kinda not really.

Tonight I am looking forward to meeting up with my knitting group. I started the group in September 2007, so we are almost at our 3-year anniversary. The group has been steadily growing since I first organized it via Craigslist. Some of the early knit nights only had 3-4 show up, now we regularly get at least 8-10.

This group changed my life. I was pretty lonely after the end of a five and a half year relationship in May 2007. I was mostly just doing some dating and trying to hang onto what little friendships remained with some school people after we had gone different ways. Then, over the course of the next year or so, I met the five women who I now consider my closest friends.

I am thankful that I have such strong social support, so even when I go through the hard shit, I know I can get through it. For example, I got a lot of grief when they found out I took the bus to the ER for my asthma attack, because I should have called one of them for a ride. (Turns out CG met me there so it all worked out, but it's still good to know they were around.) We are there for each other, helping with knitting and non-knitting problems. We even hang out outside the official knitting group. Sometimes we have prefunk happy hours before the meetup, or brunch on Sundays. And the great thing is that even though my boyfriend is always welcome, it is mostly something I do without him. It is my own thing, and I'm definitely not going to let my attendance slide just because I have a guy. It keeps me interesting, and I know that should anything happen to us, I can handle it because I have my (knitting) friends.