Songwriters are my heros

Sunday night, I went wild and drove to the city an hour away to see a show at the local music club. My friend J came with and we had a fabulous dinner with plenty of alcohol ahead of time. And rocked the tunes up loud in the car on the way home in the late night hours.

Love being crazy and staying out late on a school night!

So Matt Nathanson was the headliner and he sang the title track off his current album, Modern Love.

He told us that he wrote this song after talking to a single lady friend about her dating life and after hearing that and really listening to the lyrics (instead of skipping over like usual). It's now my new favorite song. He got it so right...songwriters are my heros.

Check it out...

Slow Turnover

Don't you hate it when you go to start a blog post and you get called into a meeting.

Really, I don't usually blog at work (other than to read and approve comments), but I'm feeling so guilty about the slowness of my posts. I'm finally back from 3 weeks of non-stop travelling and spotty internet coverage, but I'm having the hardest time finding time to put my ideas on paper into ideas on the internet. I guess I was used to being on the road.

I wanted to bring to everyone's attention an awesome class/self-study opportunity that is starting soon. Registration just opened today. As I said in my life list post, I had the good luck of signing up for an all day workshop given by the blogger Karen Walrond (@Chookooloonks) about life transitions (starting one, exercises for thinking about your direction, and documenting it). Karen has turned our one day workshop into a 5 week online/self study course. As someone who has been transitioning in her life and still is, I found the workshop so helpful.

Here is the link:

Chookooloonks Pathfinder Course

If you have any questions, let me know.

Calling all recipes...(grilling only)

I need your recipes for grilling dishes (no burgers). Oh and if you win the contest I enter you in, you have to take me with you to Oklahoma to meet the Pioneer Woman.

Those are my rules...to this contest.

If you send me a recipe, I'll enter you in the contest...(don't worry I'm going to enter myself, but I'm going to get my people in on it too).

Here is a link to the details...

Grilling Recipe Contest

Now, email...(or post to her website. Whatevs).

Ok - another post later. I wanted to post last night but I got side tracked with a birthday celebration. So you get a 2-fer today.

Drinko de mayo

So it's Cinqo de Mayo today which means the girls in DC like to pretend for a few hours that they are still in college....so no dates tonight.

But thanks to some incidents in prior years, I will also be watching how much I drink (Mr. Tequila and I are still friends but I don't need to be puking in the basement bathroom of our annual Mexican spot in DC anymore). But that doesn't mean that I won't help Amy steal a life-sized cardboard cutout of "The Most Interesting Man in the World" (Dos Equis) from our bar of choice.

Anyway, quick news on the guy front. F and I seem to be having communication issues. Evidently, yesterday afternoon's text that said, "OK ill can I call u tonight" was a question. I thought it was a statement. So he didn't call because I didn't respond.

I texted him today to say are you ok? Didn't hear from you. And of course now I can't talk to him because I'm going out tonight for Lynn's birthday and tomorrow night I have my volunteer gig. So we'll just have to talk on Saturday on our date.

Is this a sign of communication issues to come? Thank goodness my mother insisted on good grammar. At least it's clear when I text whether it is a question or a statement.

Confirmation of my personal success (and other things)

So good ole Facebook gave me confirmation of personal success this morning when this picture came up in my News Feed this morning.

I was friends in elementary school with one of the bridesmaids in this picture. Yes, it's true!
We went to elementary through to high school together (but we stopped being friends in elementary school.) Never stops you from being Facebook friends.

Photo credit: Wesley Dawson

Since all of the weddings that I have been in have not involved hair pieces or white tank tops and blue jeans, I feel like this is confirmation of my personal success in life.

On the other hand, it also confirms that I may have alittle redneck in me. I'm ok with that...it can be hidden.

Yeah to getting it together!!

Anniversary

Today is the 1 month anniversary of my blog. Can you believe it? I've been doing this dating thing for actually over 1 month. More like 6 weeks.

I guess a slow time after 6 weeks isn't bad...

Here are the stats so far:

1 book read

1 crazy letter sent (and shared on a blog)

3 dating websites that I'm actively on

4 guys dated (A - D)

6 times I've given out my phone number

41 blog entries

countless emails exchanged

It's been kind of crazy, but having this blog has pushed me and helped me tremendously. It's helped me stay accountable and focused and motivated. I really appreciate all the feedback I've received.

Feel free to send the blog to anyone. It's open to the public. It's nice to know that there are other women (and men) in my situation and maybe they'll know they aren't the only ones.

Anyway, Happy 1 month Anniversary!

I'm going to celebrate three ways - 1) by eating a 4th Dove Bliss Dark Chocolate piece right now, 2) singing Miranda Lambert's songs in my office (I'm surrounded by guys - they already don't get me), and 3) going out by myself to a bar tonight (well a friend will be there but I have to enter the bar alone). Ok - will tell you about it later! Have to go back to work (lunch is over).

A new way to keep up

There is now a Facebook page in which you can get links to my postings of my adventures.

So please Like my page. And tell your friends. Everyone is welcome to read up.

Here's the link: Adventures of this Girl Facebook Page

Deal-breakers and Nice-to-Haves

This post has been on the idea list for ages. Earlier on, it would have been much easier to write. I don't know why I put it off. As time goes by and I get busy with the business of dating, it's hard to remember all the things I originally put on my bullet list for the man I want.

So here goes...(in no particular order):

• self-confidence
• independence
• healthy lifestyle (or willingness to have one) - he doesn't have to exercise as much as I do but he has to let me do it.
• strong worth ethic
• desire to have a family/children (sooner rather than later)
• responsibility with money
• common sense
• sense of humor
• self-reliant
• masculine (I'm looking for a guy's guy - no metrosexuals)

Gosh - do I want too much? I think I could use Dr. Phil right about now.

Ok - let's try deal-breakers...

• No physical chemistry
• No pre-marital sex (we've talked about this already here).
• Irresponsibility with money (If I can keep mine and other people's money, he can at least take care of his).
• No self-confidence (I don't do well with guys who can't make their own decisions.)

I think that's it for now...but I'm going to keep thinking about it and I'm sure I'll have another post to revise my list.

Funny thoughts

I just had to share two funny things that I think you would like.

I've discovered a new blog. It's naughty and dirty and I love it.

It's called Blogging Dangerously. www.bloggingdangerously.com

Lately, she's been talking about her kids, but usually she's blogging about her sexy thoughts and escapades. Check it out!

And then funny thing number 2 - I so wish I had a video of this from last night, but I was too busy trying not to pee my pants while laughing.

If you ever want a really good laugh, play Cranium or charades (with 2 people acting out) and give the 2 drunkest people in the room the word "Rodeo". And just watch what happens. If you get Shawn and Christina, you'll end up with something that looks like combination of a corpse, doing it doggy-style, a white guy dancing to hip hop, and bull riding. Now try and guess rodeo from that. I couldn't get it...we lost that one.

Poor Christina, it was all Shawn's fault. He was really the one doing all the actions - at once.