When did it happen????????

I don't know when it happened. I must have had my head buried in the sand or something, but when did it become the rare thing for people to say "Please" , "Thank you" or even "Have a great day"? When did it become so serious when you make an honest mistake that did not threaten anyone's life, no one died and the end of the world did not come about?

I miss common courtesy and humanity. I forget for a minute there that we are not allowed to be human and that we should not expect people to be polite. Ok, so I have been working in Customer Service for too long! I no longer have the patience for rudeness. You know it is really bad when I go to other stores (where I don't work) and end up giving their staff customer service. I usually ask how they are doing before they do and I always say thank you and have a great day. You should see the looks I get from people - you would think that I had grown a second head that was spinning.

I also get really embarrassed when I am out to to eat with someone and they are not nice to the server. It makes me want to apologize and beg for forgiveness or at least crawl under the table. I was once out to dinner with an older couple and the husband didn't wait to be seated, he picked the table he wanted and just sat down and then he snapped for the waitress to come. I wanted to die!!!!! I just couldn't believe it, who does that? There should be one major rule of thumb when it comes to people who handle your food, coffee or other personal items.......be nice, they are touching the items you will be putting in your mouth. Now I am not saying that anyone in the service industry would ever do anything to anything, but still why take the chance? Why not be nice?

I don't know....maybe I am just naive, maybe I have too much of a positive attitude about how we should treat each other. Can't we all just get along, man? In an indirect way this is me venting about work today and having made one little mistake, again, no one died and no one's safety was threatened, but I was referred to as only having half a brain and then was called a liar. Wow, it is so good to know there are people in the world who have never made a mistake.

OK.....my venting is over! Thanks!

Tonight....It's just about stuff!

I didn't want to use my blog as a way to whine and complain, instead I needed a place to get things off of my chest. So this post may sound a little like I am whining and complaining, but I need to unload and after all it is my blog and I am not chaining you to the chair to read it, and I am not even using toothpicks to pry your eyes open.....so here I go.

I don't have a cool dating story to share today, instead I have a statement to make about online dating services. I don't want to date a man that in 5 years I will have to change his diapers. I change enough diapers now, I don't want to change any more for quite some time. Now, I don't want to offend anyone, I just don't want to date someone who is my mothers contemporary, I would like someone who is mine. Don't get me wrong, I love Santa, I just don't want to date him. So now you know who has been showing interest in me online. And now I am a little gun shy! I am doubting the fact that I will be able to find anyone. How is it done? Where are they? How do you meet them? And who do you trust?

Overall, this has been a shitty week. It has been a week of endings. An ending of life, an ending of a marriage and the end of a my home. So now I would like some new beginnings. Don't get me wrong, I am grateful and I do know that I have wonderful things in my life and I have started over and made things better for my daughter and for myself. But when you have so many ends in one week you want at least one great new beginning!

My whining is over for now!

I didn't know it would be this hard!

This is my first blog ever, so please be patient with me. I am going to be writing about being a mom, work, dating again after 15 years and the everyday happenings of life. Why am I doing this? I was inspired by friends. I have brilliant friends who write the most amazing blogs and I wanted to join the club! Also, I wanted an outlet to get things off my chest, so I guess this is my form of therapy. I hope you enjoy. And if you have any suggestions for me, please let me know.

So here goes......................


I thought it would be time to start dating again. You should know that I never was very good at it when I was young! So what made me think I could do this now? I am 37 (ouch, I hate saying that out loud) I know that is not old, but I haven't thought about dating since I was 22 and now thinking about dating at 37 makes it hurt that much more. So in my infinite wisdom I felt I have gained in my many years (not really), I decided it would be a good idea to go online and use one of the online dating sites.

To start out, you have to fill out all of this information about yourself and then right some fun facts about yourself that would make you sound interesting, fun, and a perfect mate. I was honest with my information. You also have to put up a picture of yourself, well you don't have to, but why would you want to agree to meet someone you have never even seen a picture of and have no idea what you will end up with. But there is no rule about the picture you put up being a recent picture. I found out this information on the first and only meeting I have had.

So, I finally got brave and decided to meet one of the men I had been chatting with. His pictures where pretty cute and he had a nice smile (so I thought). We decided to meet at Starbucks, the perfect meeting spot, lots of people around and you can escape pretty easy if need be. I got there early, picking the perfect table so I could watch the door. Now the picture I have up is only about a month old, so I look exactly like my picture, but the guy that showed up was about 30 - 40 pounds heavier than his picture that was posted and he did not have such a nice smile in person. He did like to talk though, especially about himself. He even admitted that now I knew everything about him, but he knew nothing about me - he then proceeded to talk about himself. Let's just say that I was so glad I only had about an hour to meet with him, because it was about 40 minutes too long!

Now I don't want you to think that I am going to just complain about how bad the dating scene is or bitch and moan "poor me", instead I just want to blog about how much of a challenge this is going to be for me and I think there are a few people out there that could relate. I am also going to be writing about the good dates too when they happen (that is me being positive!) So please just enjoy reading.