150th post - woohoo!

My good friend Carrie recently posted that it was her 100th post. I guess I had never really thought about how many posts I had... but of course that made me curious, had to look. And I was just a couple posts short of 150. So now here I am. At 150 posts. hmmm.... that seems like a lot, doesn't it? But then, I did start blogging Sept 1 of 2005. wow, almost three years ago. I am in my 32nd month of blogging. lol So now that 150 posts doesn't seem like much, does it? That's averaging less than 5 posts per month. Ooh, now that sounds really bad! ;-) Guess I'll have to do a better job in the future of updating my avid readers about my fascinating life. bwahahahaha Ok, avid readers?! - I know of a couple people who occasionally check out my blog. And fascinating life?! - yeah, right, my life is just so dang interesting. bwahahahahaha Funny girl, I am.

Well, the big news right now is that G and I are planning our summer bike vacation. It's a little hard to do right now, since we don't know what's up with his client or mine. But we have some ideas... and fun ones they are...


And I guess the other big news (for me) is that I finally applied for (and was accepted) membership in Mensa. Here is an explanation from mensa.org:

What is Mensa?
Mensa was founded in England in 1946 by Roland Berrill, a barrister, and Dr. Lance Ware, a scientist and lawyer. They had the idea of forming a society for bright people, the only qualification for membership of which was a high IQ. The original aims were, as they are today, to create a society that is non-political and free from all racial or religious distinctions. The society welcomes people from every walk of life whose IQ is in the top 2% of the population, with the objective of enjoying each other's company and participating in a wide range of social and cultural activities.

What are Mensa's goals?
Mensa has three stated purposes: to identify and foster human intelligence for the benefit of humanity, to encourage research in the nature, characteristics and uses of intelligence, and to promote stimulating intellectual and social opportunities for its members.

Over the years I've thought about joining Mensa, but I just never quite got around to doing it. Recently I've been feeling like my brain is atrophying, with garbage on tv, me not taking classes or being in school, etc. So I decided to take the leap, join a new group all by myself. And I am SO EXCITED! woohoo!! Mensa has a lot of SIGs (special interest groups) ranging from sci-fi to shakespeare, politics to religion, knitting to motorcycling, etc. Some of the SIGs are online only, some are more face-to-face (ie card playing SIGs). So now I get to figure out which SIGs I'd like to join, what I'd like to learn more about, talk to folks about, share my own knowledge and experience about. There are local groups that have regular activities as well. And there are larger regional and even national events. So cool cool cool. More fun for Marcia.