Just organized an outing with girlfriends

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I just successfully organized an outing with girlfriends, but it looks like only one is coming with another one maybe coming...

But it's the first time in over 2 years I've wanted to go out with friends or initiated going out with friends.

We're going for a film showing early in the afternoon at one of the very pretty embassies downtown. The charge to get in is $5 (the embassies don't charge much for their cultural events). Maybe get something to eat beforehand.

I've been not socializing for years now and almost a total shut-in for over a year.

Shut-in meaning you never go out or you go out, just not with friends (other activities, such as shopping you do). I wouldn't call myself a shut in because I do stuff like shop and go to the mall and other things that need doing, I just do them by myself.
Have fun at the movie.

Have a nice time Ephemerella.
it is good to try to do things sometimes in this way.

let us know how the evening goes.
i hope you enjoy yourself.

I haven't been going out much myself. Food shopping once in a while.

I had started trail running in late January, but pulled a calf muscle about 5 weeks ago and have been letting it recover. I should be able to start running again any time now.

I've been isolated and cut off lately.

Part of my recovery. I had fixed as much as I could fix and then the rest of the stuff (distress, dysfunction) that I couldn't work out just wasn't going away. So I "deconstructed" my life and have let my social mind fall away by isolating myself. If I don't intentionally, consciously keep up my social mind and social skills, they atrophy very rapidly. So the rest of the social psychological distress (hopefully) would dissolve with the deconstruction of my outer self.

Then, theoretically, I start all over again, rebuilding a new relationship with the outside world, free from those lingering traumas.

I'm kind of like millie, a very sensory-animal kind of creature. A lot of my programming is visceral.