Simplifying life

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Special day

Oct. 16 was the fourth anniversary of my kitty moving in with me. I’m so very glad he did.

I’m trying the Hollywood Cookie Diet. Four cookies for breakfast and lunch. I can do it for breakfast, but at lunch, I need to eat something besides the cookies. So the diet half-works. Better than not at all.

I’m also trying Dexatrim to see if it actually works. So far, it really seems to be curbing my appetite. But maybe it’s just a placebo effect.

Pen pals

I’m writing to soldiers again (had adopted a soldier a while back, but quit cuz it got too costly). This time I found groups where you don’t need to send care packages. (Which I can’t afford.) Just letters. Gives me a good reason to use my cool new stationery…

Having fun in San Diego

I’m visiting some friends in San Diego, and having a blast so far. Last night we went to a club downtown to see a good ’80s cover band, and I wasn’t driving so I could get good and drunk (but not drunk enough to have a hangover – yay). This weekend we are also going to the Wild Animal Park and a winery. So it will be a full weekend, and one I don’t want to end.

Meanwhile, I have decided to be just friends with Mr. NY. We have differing philosophies about how obligatory our chats are, plus I want to give him the option to have kids, and I don’t really want them. I thought I would grudgingly agree to have kids with the right person, but I’ve reconsidered that.

Disenchantment

Well, Mr. NY is letting me down. He missed a prearranged online chat session Sunday night. No explanation. And he is acting as if he is not getting any of the displeased e-mails I have sent him, including one in which I said I didn’t think we would work out if he couldn’t be counted on to keep his promises. (This is the second chat session he has missed.) He is still e-mailing me all happy and breezy and obliviously. So I tried sending him a message from one of my other e-mail addresses – we’ll see if he gets THAT one. Grrrr. I thought I had broken free of him, but he doesn’t seem to be getting the message – literally!

Giving up on leash-training kitty

My little Murray has decided that he will not be leash-trained. When I put his walking jacket on him, he will just lie down in one spot and not move until I take the jacket off. So I’m going to return it. Too bad.

Meanwhile, the NY guy is letting me down. He didn’t show up for a prearranged online chat last night. No explanation. So I don’t think he and I are compatible – I need someone I can count on to keep his promises. I think I’m going to just ixnay the whole dating thing and concentrate on my cat. At least he is reliable.

More about great guy

I’m not sure how my folks would feel about Mr. New York, since he’s black (and my parents are older and have some old-fashioned ideas… not that that excuses it) and fifty-two. I always attract older guys – when I was in my twenties I attracted guys in their forties, and now in my thirties I attract guys in their fifties.

He also wants kids and I really don’t, but if he’s otherwise the perfect person I would make the sacrifice to have kids if he felt strongly enough about it…

Met a great guy

I met a guy online I really like. He is in New York now but moving here soon. He is very handsome and well-spoken. I feel a definite spark.

Meanwhile, I told another nice guy I went out with a couple times that although I like him, I don’t feel that romantic passion. Too bad…

Dating roundup

I’m doing the online dating thing. It’s been a mixed bag so far…

A guy I met online came over Friday night for swimming but turned out to be a loser. At first, things were going well. He told me he was more comfortable with me than he’d ever been with any other woman, etc. But at the end of the night, things took a negative turn. He is far more into the physical side of a relationship than I am, at least early on – it takes me a while to develop the comfort level and trust needed for that stuff. So he ridiculed me, saying no man would accept my “old-school” attitude. He also had the nerve to tell me I’m a bad kisser. Well, I know a number of other men who would say quite the opposite! So, anyway, I told this guy that I didn’t think we were compatible. I don’t need a guy who tries to make me feel bad about my value system and way of operating in a relationship. Or my kissing skills.

Then, last night, I was supposed to go dancing with another guy, but the club was closed. But the guy never made it that far, because he got lost. So he called me and we planned to meet at a Denny’s midway between where he was and I was. But even though I told him exactly where the Denny’s was and how to get there, he got lost again. So I told him to forget it. And I said he seems like a nice guy, but getting together seems to be too complicated, so we should just let things go. He didn’t do a whole lot for me anyway, based on the online interaction we’d had, so no big deal.

Sunday was much better. I had a lunch date with another guy, and he was actually on time, and he was a good conversationalist. I enjoyed myself a great deal and would definitely see him again. He’s a little old, though – fifty – but oh well, at least that makes him more mature than some guys closer to my age.

I have a lunch date next weekend with yet another guy. He seems really nice, so I am looking forward to it…

Vet says to chill out

My vet says not to worry about Murray’s patch of thinning fur. He said the change in seasons may be a factor (though it doesn’t SEEM to be getting any cooler, LOL). The vet must be honest, because if he really wanted my money, he would play upon my fears and act all concerned and say that a bunch of expensive tests needed to be run.

So – I will just keep an eye on things and TRY not to worry!

Today I’m just working a half-day, and the first thing I will do when I go in will be to go to lunch. A FREE lunch – the bosses are treating us today as a thank-you for all our hard work on getting the new layout system up and running. Free lunch rocks.