What keeps you from meeting other DUers in your area?

#1 certainly applies to me.... among others....

I've been on DU for over 2 years, have nearly 10,000 posts and have yet to meet a DUer in person.

Something always seems to come up last minute for any DU get togethers & all.

...then I'm missing all of them. I either miss the heads up here on DU or I can't make it. Sometimes I find out too late and can't confirm that anyone will actually be there or even where it is.

trusted to get me to work and back...it's dying

Apparently I don't go because I'm too lazy to find out about them. :shrug:

almost took a job in Heber Springs in 2000 also...

are quite some distance from me, unfortunately. Same dilemma.

I'm going to try to correct that in a few months. :D

:hi: :thumbsup:

I'm SO there! :hi:

I'm thinking March or April, once the weather gets decent again? I'll start planning when I'm back from vacation. :D

We tried, only three of us showed up and one was visiting from Texas.:shrug:

Jeez...

yeah i know, it's lame but there it is x(

organize an official meetup in my area and it was convenient to go. Sounds great to me!

:thumbsup:


:hi:
Shine

That way you know it will at least be convenient to you.

If everyone stands around waiting for someone to take charge, nothing will ever get done.

It's certainly the easy way out to expect somebody else to take it on.

Oh well, guess I'm not perfect. ;)

:hi:
Shine

but I'm in Los Osos for the holiday. Leaving tomorrow, though.

I know there are a few of us around our area, but right now, I don't have the extra bandwidth in my life to take on organizing it.

I'm in the Santa Cruz mountains....

:hi:
Shine

I thought you were in Moro Bay for some reason. I know someone is there with a screen name that starts with S. Anyway :hi:
I'll wave on my way past tomorrow. Maybe next time I go down I can squeeze some extra time and we can meet for coffee or something.

:pals:

I am way out in the country.

on edit: I have only been able to get together with the folks in Austin once. Though, on second thought I think there is another DUer in the county in Kingsland, Texas. Still, that is a pretty fur peice, and I'm so broke I can't pay attantion.

On the other hand, I may make it to a fall 2006 meetup in Chicago...

... is conspicuously absent here....
My vote in other explained: I would hate to have any good will which I may have built up here among my fellow DUers dashed to hell from a face to face meeting.

I have notorious lack of self control

On edit: it's not absent..... just more.... "covert"

That and lazy. :D

Most of my rehearsals/gigs are in the evenings and on weekends...prime get-together times. :cry:

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. If everyone wants to leave off their perfume, cologne, hairspray, lotions, anything else with fragrance, and wash their clothes in fragrance-free detergents (w/out fabric softener), there's half a chance I could go without getting sick. What am I saying?! I can't even get some members of my family to cooperate. So, I'm not exactly shut-in, but pretty darn close to it.

:shrug:

I use the fragrance free detergent and we have all the fragrance free lotions... I never wear perfume or anything like that. I avoid most of the chemical cleaners as well. My son has very sensitive skin, so it works out well.

H doesn't have MCS, I don't think, but we do know a number of people who actually gag when those things are around.

It is odd how bad a lot of those chemical things smell. I like more subtle scents, myself.

I get really sick -- the list of symptoms is as long as my arm. Of course, that makes me not like them.

You're right on track about the chemicals. The fragrances are really toxic, but most people can tolerate them for many years before they get sick.

I'm glad you're avoiding the fragrances for your son. They're such a toxic soup.

or the cleaning products. The hand lotions don't really bother me, but my H can smell them at 50 paces...

I still remember a woman that I worked with years ago who used to spray a lot of lysol and other aerosols around at work. She developed cancer and I always wondered if all the chemical products she used could have been a contributing factor....

Although all the plastic molecules we ingest or imbibe, or whatever the term may be... probably aren't a good thing either.

smell them at 50 paces, that is.

The chemicals probably did contribute to that woman's cancer. They are carcinogens as well as neurotoxins. If people only knew ...

my MCS has settled down luckily...I know how you feel. When I was very sick with CFIDS & Fibro, my MCS was way off the map. I couldn't even tolerate smells like vinegar, onions and garlic. It was really a nightmare.

As the others have improved, so has the MCS. I still only use borax & lemon juice to clean, hydrogen peroxide to disinfect, but can now tolerate some lightly scented natural products.

I hope yours will improve, too. :hug:

I almost missed your reply somehow.

I've never known anyone else with MCS (I don't know my doctor's other patients). I can tolerate those smells -- it's the chemicals that get me. Perfume, smelly laundry detergent (that "clean" smell ... NOT clean!), hairpspray, etc.

We clean with Seventh Generation fragrance-free products. And we use natural products for soap and shampoo. I have to go inside when anyone in the neighborhood is running their dryer. They all think I'm nuts b/c I "don't like" their Tide with Febreeze.

I'm so glad yours has improved. How long did it take? I've been sick for almost 5 years and my doctor thinks I might be one of the few who don't improve, considering there has been no improvement since I stopped working 4 years ago.

:hug:

approximately 60. All are welcome and lots of fun is had. I am 35, one of my dear friends is a decade older and one a decade younger...see? :hi:

That's why.

Just kidding, HEyHEY, Lisa, ILikeNicePeople, YVR girl, et al.

I'd love to meet with other Minnesota DUers. :)

I met a few at a couple of events and on the DC trip, but I wish we'd schedule a meetup soon.

I have been to numerous Chicago DU meet-ups. They are great. Have also missed a few, but what the hell.

I have also arranged a few. It is good for you.

yhat i know of.:shrug:

and I wish to spare others the horror. :hide:

I heard the last time you were in public you had to be in a "freedomball"..... like people have for their hamsters

Mine was opaque. :-(

That would make two of y'all

Groucho said something like that.

double phallic name

is a business group of male prostitutes.



:hide:

But it was a busy night for me and I couldn't make it....

I'm going to be in DC Wed and Thur this week though....too bad theres not a meetup there...:(

they've all taken out against me.:cry:

in the bowels of re:puke: country.

Although, I would love to meet the few from Mississippi that I know of!!

BUT I haven't been around here long enough to get to know anyone. The lounge moves so quickly that it's hard to really "jump in" there. I'm really looking forward to getting to "know" more of you though.

Watch the 'California' State Forum for meet-ups, etc.

Local group gatherings tend to have people from Sacramento to San Jose and all points in between. See you there - :hi:

Maybe a scosh less, traffic depending. :hi:

I'm gonna have to steal that one. I like it. :)

It was fairly common in the '80s. No idea of the etymology... except that it derived from "scoshia" (or maybe "scotia"), as in "A wee scoshia bit."

Gee, words are swell. :7

I was, um, stupidly ambivalent about going to meetups here. But some good DU'ers here practically had to drag me to my first one. And...I've been going to them ever since. :-)

He's not around much anymore...where is enigmatic these days?

Just kidding!

We have great DU Meetups in Minnesota!

:toast:

There aren't that many DUers in my neck of the woods.

shitty work schedule

I live in the 'burbs, about 45 minutes outside of the City.

...:shrug: