So, I have seen a piece of advice thrown around on these boards to those of us who are extremely shy. That is to start to involve yourself in social hobbies as a way to meet more people, possivbly even potential love interests. I happen to think it is awesome advice. I really like it. As you have seen from my recent thread, I've even realized that I have been able to put it to use without really thinking about it (at my board gaming group).
So, I've decided I want to try to do that a little more. The only problem is...
I'm not really sure how to even go about doing that. Anybody have any suggestions or advice from experience? How do you find fun hobby type stuff to do in your area?
As far as my gaming group, I got that set up myself by contacting my local comic book store to ask if they had space for something like that. They were very happy to offer up space for me to start a group, and it has been going well ever since. It has suited my needs, as I just wanted to set it up so I could get to play board games more often. But, it hasn't been a HUGE group. Just fine with me, but because of that, it doesn't necessarily help as far as my new desire to meet more people, because we don't very often have new people show up. From time to time a newbie will stop by, but it is usually just the core group of us.
Anybody have advice on where to find events or whatever to attend so you can meet new people/potentially make friends/possibly even meet a potential love interest?