Common sense advice from a not-so-smug married November 8, 2006
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A few weeks ago I was eating lunch with one of my married girlfriends and we were talking about children. I had just seen my baby cousin that weekend and I told her that lately I’d been feeling very maternal. I was smiling at and flirting with every baby I saw in the line at the grocery store or as I walked through the mall.
"It is a bit disconcerting," I said. "I see babies and I just want to hug them and kiss them and play with them and love them. I don’t know what’s come over me."
"Oh, honey, I wouldn’t worry about that," she said, very matter of factly, in between sips of Diet Coke. "You’re probably just ovulating."
Couple Season November 5, 2006
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It starts out slow. Next week is a casual charity event that I attended last year. It is a nice event for those of us who aren’t well off enough to donate thousands of dollars to a cause. But you have to have a partner because you play rounds of games.
Last year, I went with The Banker. She was a great partner. We had a lot of fun and we won almost every game we played. But this year she has a work event the same night, so I am left sans partner.
We’re buying tickets to the theatre for January. And I’m sitting here in November wondering what would happen if I bought two. Would I have a date or would I spend the entire week before trying to pawn my extra ticket off and feeling like a moron for being optimistic about my dating future?
In my family, talk of Thanksgiving and Christmas starts early. Like, this week. Soon I’ll get my cooking assignments for Thanksgiving Day and firm up my plans. The headcount will start and I’ll be the only single adult. Again. And the same goes for Christmas – my brother will struggle to balance his plans and work to make sure he spends time with our family and his girlfriend’s relatives as well. The only struggle I have is what to wear to Midnight Mass.
I won’t have a date for Christmas parties. Or New Year’s Eve. And I often wonder if the joke about men not looking for a relationship between now and Valentine’s Day holds true.
I overcompensate by bringing fantastic food. Baked brie with Kahlua-pecan sauce. Three sides to Thanksgiving, “because I just love how the house smells when I cook up a storm,” I’ll exclaim with mock glee, nervously ripping up a paper napkin in my lap under the table.
Because the smell is nice, but I really hate doing so many dishes.
The perils of flirting in costume November 1, 2006
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Costumes add an interesting challenge to flirting. While most women I know go for subtly slutty (or outright whorish, depending on the outfit) with their Halloween costumes, men seem to go the other extreme. Either gross or odd.
This can present problems. Can you flirt with someone with a fake eyeball dangling semi-realistically from their head? Is that guy in the mask looking at me? Could he take off the damn wig so I can see him better? Is that goofball being coy to match his character?
Like the guy dressed as Magnum P.I. at the Halloween party I attended last night.
Was he flirting with me? He had a fake moustache and a hat on his head so I could barely see his eyes. Maybe not? Probably not? When I tried to introduce myself, he shot back an in character, “I’m Magnum P.I.” We talked some and he seemed to smile a lot.
When I asked one of my coworkers who Magnum P.I. was – meaning the guy in the costume, not the character – I got an eyeroll and a lecture on 80s TV shows. By someone who is younger than I am. Fabulous.
So, Mr. P.I., maybe you were flirting. I guess I’ll never know, because that fake ‘stache really threw me off.
Charming, but single 