Well, now what?
After my cat turned out to be all right (updates on the Good Stuff thread), I thought things were going pretty well. Then it turns out that my two best friends I have in town are going to be moving as soon as the wife (an engineer and the primary breadwinner) can find employment in their desired area. This might be next week, or next year, but it is happening. The husband's younger brother's children have health issues, and of the husband's very extensive family, only he and his family are in any position to move. I always knew they wanted to move back out west (where the husband is from and where they both went to college) at some point, but this is still sad news.
I've known them for over 12 years, and they're the only really good friends I have in town. They're also my face-to-face gaming group, and I don't have another. Another woman in our group moved out of town two years ago, and with this couple gone, it's just my dad and my husband (and my husband only wants to play a very limited selection of my very extensive collection of RPGs).
I'm more of an introvert, and while I have several friendly acquaintances, I don't have any other close friends. Certainly not any other gaming friends. So now I must plunge back into the social waters to widen my circle, because while we're going to keep being friends, we're going to lose that continuous social connection of being in the same town, having conversations and sharing movies and TV shows, of gaming together face-to-face. And that just makes me really sad.