What a lovely birthday week I’ve had. I’ve managed to have a brilliant time without feeling sorry for myself that I am not with a “significant other” at this stage of my life. One of my male friends told me on Friday night that the only reason I was single was because “nobody is good enough for you” and I was a little taken aback. I pointed out that it wasn’t like there was a stream of men waiting in the wings. There is no one around it seems. The only single man I have met recently said to me in the middle of what I thought was a perfectly normal conversation “I think you are a very naughty girl and you need a spank”. WTF?? Not what I was expecting and I couldn’t have got away fast enough. Another single girlfriend had a similar situation recently when she was with a man who asked her to “say something dirty”. She replied “well, you could empty the rubbish and my loo needs a clean – that’s about as dirty as I can be”. Don’t think that one lasted very long either.
On Friday night I went out with my lovely old, old friends. We were eating at the same restaurant as Colin Firth. We had a great time. I came back to a bit of a mess and a crowd of youths outside my house. My teenage son was meant to be having a few friends over to his dad’s – a text came in whilst I was out:-
“Dad’s not going anymore so I’m going to have people to ours. Not v many but they will have left by the time you get back. What time will u b back?”
“Oh shit” I responded.
“Don’t worry under control. Only like 100 people. XX”
He was joking. But still my house has a layer of sticky stuff over the top of it.
But now it’s time to take stock. The contents of my fridge represent my state of being. There’s a few half eaten bowls of mouldy old food and nothing to drink apart from a bottle of vodka that one of the teenage revellers put in there at some point during the weekend.
Time to get a grip and replenish. I am going out to buy healthy food. Celery et al.
Sun, Nov 15, 2009
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