Day 03 - Your views on drugs and alcohol

In regards to alcohol, I don't believe there should be an age restriction on it. Drugs, I don't believe they should be illegal. We should have learned our lesson after prohibition, when the crime rate skyrocked, but we didn't. We've lost the drug war. Call me a crazy Libertarian, but that's how I feel.

Day 02 - Where you'd like to be in 10 years

I'll be 44 years old. It's kinda strange to imagine myself at 44, but the older I get, the faster time seems to move on.

God willing, I won't be in DC, I'll have finally hit the multi-million dollar jackpot, bought my room on The World and cruising my to retirement.

But that's not really probable, so unless I change to a career where I can live anywhere and we move, yeah, I'll still be in DC.
Relationship wise, who knows: I'll either be Mae West, Mrs Cleaver or some strange combo of the two.

One thing I will have done by that point is at least one of my stories. I've had this idea in my head for years and I'll finally have it completed, maybe even published.

Day 01 - Your current relationship--if single, discuss how single life is

Single.

Totally.

Utterly.

Single.

I'm more accepting of it than I use to be. But I want to get married, I want to have kids...in that order. So I need to not be single anymore to accomplish that goal. Sometimes I look in the mirror and wonder, Is it me? Hell, I've even asked guys I know to give me their honest opinion and to tell me what's wrong with me? Why am single? I can't fix what's wrong with me if I don't know what wrong with me! Or maybe they're right, nothing is wrong with me. Who I'm suppose to be with just isn't here in this area, I'm just going to have to go somewhere else to find him or for him to find me. That's kind of depressing.

With all the men in this area you'd think there'd be one or two that would be single, available, and right for me. I'm missing the days where all the single ladies got dressed up in ball gowns and corsets to be paraded around in front of all the single gentleman of the community. At least then you knew how/where to FIND the single/available men.

If this was 1811, I'd be a Spinster.

Borrowed blog prompts...

I ran across this on a blog that I was reading and thought it was a pretty good idea for writing prompts over the coming days and weeks as I leave 2011 behind and enter 2012. So be on the look out!

Day 01 - Your current relationship--if single, discuss how single life is
Day 02 - Where you'd like to be in 10 years
Day 03 - Your views on drugs and alcohol
Day 04 - Your views on religion
Day 05 - A time you thought about ending your own life
Day 06 - Write 30 interesting facts about yourself.
Day 07 - Your zodiac sign and if you think it fits your personality
Day 08 - A moment you felt the most satisfied with your life
Day 09 - How you hope your future will be like
Day 10 - Discuss your first love and first kiss.
Day 11 - Put your ipod on shuffle and write 10 songs that pop up.
Day 12 - Bullet your whole day.
Day 13 - Somewhere you’d like to move or visit
Day 14 - Your earliest memory
Day 15 - Your favorite blogs
Day 16 - Your views on mainstream music
Day 17 - Your highs and lows of this past year
Day 18 - Your beliefs
Day 19 - Disrespecting your parents
Day 20 - How important you think education is
Day 21 - One of your favorite shows
Day 22 - How have you changed in the past 2 years?
Day 23 - Give pictures of 5 guys who are famous and who you find attractive.
Day 24 - Your favorite movie and what it’s about
Day 25 - Someone who fascinates you and why
Day 26 - What kind of person attracts you?
Day 27 - A problem that you have had
Day 28 - Something that you miss
Day 29 - Goals for the next 30 days

Oh, how far I have come.

Have you noticed the astonishing lack of adult behavior in so-called adults nowadays? Why is that? Is it because society no longer asks adults to BE adults anymore?

I had a date set up the other night, we were suppose to meet for drinks at a nearby bar. It was a guy I met online, 40. We'd been talking back and forth over email and text, seemed to be vibing, I like what he was saying and we seemed to have a lot in common. So I was really looking forward to the date. The last email I get from him says he'll see me around 5:30. I get to the bar around 5:20...6:30 he still hasn't shown.

I was stood up.

But it turns out, I actually had a pretty good evening. I wandered the mall a bit, did my best to really avoid Coach & Michale Kors....Did you know William Sonoma sells Star Wars cookie cutters and cup cake liners? Me either. I ended up getting a slice of cheesecake from Cheesecake Factory and heading home afterwards, beating all that crazy rain we had last night. So after spending so much time to myself, I got to do some thinking. You'd think I'd be pissed off or angry with this joker at being stood up. Hell, I thought I'd be too, but I wasn't.

I was disappointed.

I expected someone that age would be beyond that high school stuff. That he would at least be man enough to show, even if he wasn't physically interested in me, because that's what adults do, cause it's the right and respectable thing to do. But no, it proves yet again that age IS nothing but a number, maturity is all in the mind.

I guess this shows how far I've come in this last year. Any other time I would have been ranting about how much men suck and why is it so hard to find a good one here in DC.....but I'm just shrugging my shoulders at this one. He's just another to add to the pile of broken boys and keep looking for one that actually works, especially for me. I know the further I get past all the wrong guys just means I'm even closer to finding that guy I do belong with.

Just a few more to test out.