using linkers adverbs and appropriate idioms to make the sentence more fluent natural and colloquialI dont go out with my friends very often because everyone is busy with their work and personal lives

I don't get to hang out with my friends much these days, you know? It's like everyone's caught up in their own work and personal stuff. But we do manage to catch up over dinner at a restaurant on the weekends, you know, like once in a blue moon, maybe twice if we're lucky.