September 9, 2013 -- the day that the year school year begins in many schools in NY and NJ. Natalie started kindergarten (Livingston HS class of 2026) today at Collins Elementary School -- God speed and all the best to my pint-sized princess. Ann LoPresti started teaching at the community college where she works -- and this semester she has Monday classes. So she gave up Mondays and she will be seeing Jake on Thursdays; I have taken over Mondays. This ties up another day, but makes it a lot easier for me than trying to squeeze in both Natalie and Jake on Wednesdays.
This morning I went to my weekly Weight Watchers weigh-in (which I missed last week due to Labor Day) and found that I gained 1.4 pounds -- not happy. I am once again going to have to start watching what I eat and writing everything down. So much for the dramatic weight loss caused by the grief of separation! But, I didn't stay for the meeting because I had a hair appointment.
My hair is now cut short and the highlighting has been intensified. I really like it -- don't know if anyone else will, but I do! The process, which I go through every 6 weeks, seemed to take forever today -- and I got out much later than usual (around 1:00 PM). Because I was already in Morristown, I went straight to Jake's from Bloom's. Of course I got there while he was napping. Luckily I had my iPad with me and was able to read while he napped -- he didn't wake up until almost 2:30.
It was well past 4:15 when I left Jake's -- I wanted to get home because I knew David was dropping by and I want to make sure that I know what he is doing in the house. I really don't need any more surprises. I left him half of an apple crumb cake which I baked yesterday and told him to take half of the apples. He managed to leave the cake on the table when he went up to print a photo of Sabrina and Ginger immediately found it and ate the whole thing. So what did I do? I gave him the half of a cake I was saving for myself. Me good; him bad. Or better on his hips than on mine!
We left here at the same time -- him to go to dinner at Dan and Caroline's; me to go to another "singles" meet-up with a speaker on dating. The first part of the meetup was drinks and mingling -- I had a glass of wine and met a couple of women who I talked to most of that hour-and-a-half. Should have mingled a little more -- but there were no men there who I particularly wanted to meet. The second part of the meeting was a speaker, Jan, who talked about dating. She walked around and introduced herself during the first part and gave a pretty good lecture -- didn't say anything out of the ordinary but I liked her and she was funny. She was definitely someone I could become friends with -- hope that I meet up with her again at a future meetup.
Bottom line -- there are oh so many more women looking for men than men looking for women; I could pass myself off as being in my 50s (Jan thought I was her age - 57); I need to be more outgoing (maybe I would be if there was someone who sparked an interest in me); and I can manage a full social evening out on my own! Good to know!
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