Excitement!

I know I have been lax with keeping up with this blog. But all of that is about to change! Today I placed an order for a brand new laptop! I got a really good deal on one I've been eyeing for some time. It's light enough that I'll be able to take it with me, and if I have an event that's after work but with a couple of hours leeway time, I can just duck into a Starbucks or bookstore and catch up, or blog, or write, or whatever! Yay!

I had actually gotten a laptop a little over a year ago with similar aspirations, but alas, no sooner had it been delivered than it somehow became the new 'family' computer, even to the extent that my mom now takes it to work with her. I'm still not entirely sure how that happened, but who cares? The new one that's coming is even better, and actually cheaper than the one I got a year ago. Go me! I was trying to post using my phone, but typing a whole long post using those itty bitty keyboards can get old really fast. And, if I let a few days go by without posting, all of my outings pile up and by the time I get around to blogging, I'm overwhelmed at all that I wanted to write about and stall an never get anything posted at all. Once my new computer comes, that's all going to change!

So just a quick update in the meantime...

Went out to dinner with the Shrink this past Friday. I hadn't really talked with her in a bit, so it was nice. I enjoy her company, but sometimes she can be a bit negative, and when I'm trying so hard to keep positive about everything, it can be hard to talk with her. I've found that if I keep things to a minimum, or with others there, we can spread the love around, so to speak.

Saturday, I went with a friend to the Fourth Wall Arts Salon. They have one once a month at a different venue. It's a way for new artists to get their work out, shown, heard. They have all different types of art: vocal, instrumental, visual, dance, poetry, really anything goes. Every month it's different, and every month it's wonderful! This month it was at the National Museum if American Jewish History. I haven't been to the museum proper yet, but now I really want to go back.

Sunday, my mother and sister and I went to see the Capucci fashion exhibit at the Art Museum. Also, wonderful! He started as any other fashion designer, but then decided he wanted to actually use fashion as art, so his more recent fashions are more like movable, wearable sculpture. It was beautiful, fascinating, and mesmerizing.

It's been a fairly quiet week so far, other than working out the details of my COMPUTER! Tomorrow I'm meeting with the girls at Mercato for Dining Out for Life. This is a national event that happens every year where restaurants donate 33% of their proceeds from the night to AIDS research. I remember when it first started about 10 years ago or so. It's very exciting that it's still happening and to see how it's grown. Also, I haven't actually taken part before, so I'm super excited to finally be able to participate. Friday, I'll be going with Rabbi's Daughter to an Arbonne makeup party at one of her friend's. For those few who are reading this blog, have any of you heard of this brand? I checked them out online, and they seem to be for the 40 year olds and older set, and since I'm the oldest in my group of friends at 34, I'm not quite sure what to expect, but we'll see.

OK, now, guy news...

The Gipper is seeing someone, seriously he says although it's only been a month, so we'll see how long it lasts. There were pictures posted on facebook. He took them off of his wall thinking I won't know, but whatever! I can't see just anyone staying with him for very long once they see how emotionally high maintenance he is. And not that it's a bad thing that he is, you understand, just that it'll take a very special person to be able to understand it, and accept him with it, and know how to handle it without going crazy or making him crazy. I know I need to get past him, and move on. I've changed some of the settings so that his postings won't show up in my news feed and so that when i post it won't show up in his. Babyish, perhaps but it may help me not think about him, if I'm not constantly inundated with info about him, you know?

Divorced Dad, remember him? From way back on my other blog perhaps, KatydidFliesAgain. (Actually I just looked, and I'm not sure I ever went into detail about him. But I'll leave that for another post.) Anyway, I was trolling facebook, which I do, and I don't know what made me check his page, but I saw that he had changed his relationship status to singe, so I commented that I was sorry and hoped he was doing ok. So he writes me back this long email about what happened and how he's doing, and so I write him, back and then he asked if he could call me. I said yes, because, why not? It doesn't need to go anywhere, especially since I don't want it to, but it might be nice to have someone else to talk to and maybe think about other than the Gipper. Also, it might be nice to have someone outside of my current social circle who doesn't know him to talk to about everything. So we talked Sunday night, and it was nice, no sparks or anything, but nice. I'll see if he calls again, although if he does and wants to ask me out I'll have to let him know I'm not interested in anything serious with him.

I've been reading a lot and listening to a lot by Rori Raye. She deals with romantic relationships and what things work and what things don't. On the surface, you'd think she's a lot like any other relationship self help program, but hers seems to make sense, and the bits that I've tried out really do work, so I think there might be something to them. Anyway, she has this concept called "circular dating" basically, doing what my mother's been telling me (G-d, she'd laugh if she could read this) and date a bunch of men at the same time. Rori says that there's a definite difference between committed relationship and just exclusivity. Commitment, means that he tells you, "I love you, I want to be with you, you're the one I want." and marriage is definitely on the table. Whereas with Exclusivity, marriage isn't necessarily on the table, but you've taken yourself off the marriage market to only be with one man. It's so obvious, though. Why would you take yourself off the marriage market if he hasn't offered you marriage, or something pretty darn close? Therefore, you date anyone and everyone (within reason of course), and just have fun flirting and having various experiences until someone does offer you marriage and commitment. Now that the weather's getting nicer, I've made up my mind, that I owe it to myself to try this. At least to have a good time.

Anyway, see what I mean about long posts and getting overwhelmed. If you've gotten this far, cool beans! Give me a little shout out and let me know I'm not writing in vain.