Not a lot of time

I just realized that I have not posted on this thing in months and months! I was just checking it 'cause I am avoiding myspace. I logged on for a minute to accept an invite from a 3D friend and all of the sudden, about 5 guys wrote to me! I need to change my picture. Apparently, it is far to arousing. hahahahaha!

Have a good day.

Online dating is weird!

I signed up for an online dating site last August. It's been very strange, yet sort of fun. Still, I don't know if it is really for me.

The first guy that I met up with had lied about his age by 10 years. Said he was 38 and he was actualy 49. Had he been honest with me, I still might have considered dating him, who knows, but the fact that he lied about his age and posted 15 year old photos leads me to believe that he is not comfortable with himself nor his age.

NEXT!

After that, nobody wrote to me at all for about two months.

Over the next few months, I would sporatically go on a date or two, some I liked, others I didn't, but nothing stuck. Still, it's fun.

Then the super freaky weird guy came along. An hour into it, he tried to kiss me. I told him no, and he tried to manipulate me by crying! That didn't work, so he told me that he just found out that day that his father has cancer! When that didn't work, he got a little angry and told me that nobody had ever rejected him in all of his 38 years. Yeah. Right. It was awful! I seriously was expecting Candid Camera to come out and tell me that I'd been gotten! Nope. This guy was for real.

This only happened under a week ago. I have another date today, but I'm still weirded out by the other guy. That's not fair to this guy. I need to just suck it up, and go have a good time.

I really with there was another way to meet men in Seattle, but it seems that they don't ask women out in person. Only online. Very strange times, these.

I'm a horrible softball player!

I suck! Seriously! Still, it was so much fun and i can't wait to got back again next Sunday! I only caught two balls and only made a hit go further than the pitcher once! Still, it'll come back to me with a little practice! I used to be good! I figure that it's sort of like riding a bike, no?

The best part of the practice was that I wasn't the only one wheezing! Almost everyone on the team smokes, so it was funny to hear everyone huffing and puffing after only running to first! hahaha! After we all got a turn to hit, we took a smoke break! Oh! You just have got to love punk rockers playing sports! It's a beautiful thing!

Still, now that it staying light leter in the day, I will soon be able to ride my bike to work and not have it be dark by the time I get off. That will help my poor winter ravaged lungs!

I think the reason that softball is going to be so much fun is that almost the whole team is bad at playing, but they're all playing for fun! There are two guys who are good, but they don't want to play on the team that takes themselves so seriously! It's good to have them! Hooray!!!!

I love spring, and I love softball!

Boy, oh boy!

I went to the first softball meeting of the season last night! I'm very excited!

This is my first time playing with the Cafe Venus team, Venus Envy. I've wanted to for years, but I always had to work on Sundays, and last year I just missed the sign-up. This year, nothing is going to stop me!!!

I guess this team only won one game last year, but I was assured that our team has more fun than the teams who kick our asses. That's really all that matters to me. I'm not super competitive, bI just like to play! I've not been on a team in years and years.

There's a story that my father loves to tell about me playing softball when I was in 3rd grade. I was up to bat and hit a line drive that hit the shortstop in the face, she went down, and the ball kept going. I was so upset that I'd hurt someone that I started crying. Although I was upset, it was a home run and I knew that it was my job to run the bases anyway. When i got back home, the mother of the shortstop was comforting ME instead of her daughter 'cause I was so upset about it. Yeah, I was a sensitive child. What I didn't know until last week is that I was so upset about it, I refused to play softball anymore. The coach was callng our house trying to get me to change my mind as I was the clean-up hitter. I guess I just refused.

I really hope that I don't hurt anyone this season!

Valentine's Day

Oh, here it is again. All of those awful jewelry commercials that show women being pissed at their husband's for not buying their presents at the right store. Sit-coms about men not doing the right thing and then getting in big trouble with their wives and girlfriends, only to have to crawl on his knees and swallow the last shred of dignity to make her let him sleep in the bed again.

Why is this holiday made to be such a power struggle? I mean, when did love become about how to make people do what you want them to do?

These ads and shows just make me very happy to be single on Valentine's Day.

When I used to be in a couple, I'd get in trouble every year for doing things "the wrong way". It isn't about how you show your love for someone anymore, it's about how you are told to show your love for someone. Um...I don't like that.

I want to come up with a new holiday! This will be a holiday celebrating the people who can function just fine as single people. I don't want it to be about how bitter single people are, but how fun it can be. Celebrating freedom, if you will.

It's only fair. I mean, besides Valentine's Day-NYE, Christmas, and Thanksgiving cater most to, and are commercially directed to couples and those with families. Those holidays can make the single person feel even more alone than they do on regular days.

So, from here on out, on March 3rd, buy your single friends presents, or cocktails. Send them cards, make them dinner. Whetever you want to do for them. This is OUR day! :)

Now I just need to come up with a catchy name for it!

This day rocks!

Okay, this whole fake spring thing is really great! Customers are coming into the store again and they are actually buying stuff!!! Everyone seems to be in really good moods and are being as chatty as me! I LOVE that! I don't feel so weird when other people don't shut up too!

THEN, right after my boss showed up, all of the power went off! We were all running around to the other shops in the area to talk to them, and the power was off there as well! I guess the guys who are doing the retrofitting on the draw bridge had cut into the main powerline! Half of the neighborhood was without power! That didn't stop the customers though. They were trying on clothing in the dark! haha! We didn't make any sales though. Try as they may, they couldn't see themselves well enough to tell if the clothing looked good or not.

My boss and I decided that since it was such a beautiful day, that we were just going to play hookie, so we closed at 3:00! I took the long way home and went downtown and walked around! It was so nice!

I hope this weather stays good for awhile! This grumpy ol' town needs it!

SAY CHEESE!!!!

MEOW!

Sneaky Spring!

I'm not falling for it, but I sure am enjoying this sneak peak at spring! I even have my windows open to air out stinky winter! Hooray!

I'm even doing some cleaning if you can believe it! I think I may even be able to vaccum in a bit! Woohooo!

Now, if I get my place all tidy, something catastophic better not happen! It always seems to work that way. I am NOT going to think that way! NOPE!

Things are too pretty!


Even Kidda is digging on it!

I'm missing my friends!


I think I figured out why I am so damn blue today. It's Sunday. Sundays for years have been my big night out. "French Class' doesn't exist anymore since Franny and Shawn have moved. I am really missing them.

I have a lot of fun in my life, I wouldn't change it for the world! I have some really great friends too, who I love with all of my heart! Most of them, though, work real hours and can't go out on Sundays with me.


I am the type of person who needs what I like to call "frantic fun". Frantic fun is when you just let loose completely. Make a total ass out of yourself with your friends joining in. Doing it alone sucks. It's best when there are like three or four people jumping off the stage, hoola hooping, interpretive dancing, or making "enterances" through the velvet curtains. There is nobody left at the Mars who likes to do stuff like that, so If I did it, I'd look like a crazy person. I just don't know what I can do about it. I am feeling super antsy, and need to laugh until my sides hurt. I NEED that. Especially today.

Maybe I'll just go out and see what happens tonight. I can't stand one more day staying at home.