Happy Valentine's Day to Me!

To combat loneliness and give me something to write about, (Since I don't have a life!) I joined the reality based world of online dating! Why do I feel like I'm back in high school, I really didn't like high school the first time around, I don't think I am going to like it any better now! 

I can still recall, like it was yesterday..oh yeah, it was yesterday, the ones you want to call never call, (I have a nagging feeling that their wives probably found out!) and I am still a geek magnet! Why am I still attracted to the wrong ones, the handsome ones that are nothing but trouble, without jobs. Why do some things never change? People come and go like the tide, some you hear from, sound really interested, and you never hear from them again. Some get upset if you don't answer their emails right away, and some just want to waste your time talking on the phone because in the end you will never meet. 

There are the rare few that hang in there for better or worse (Sound familiar?) see you when they can and don't make you feel bad when you don't have the time, because after all, we are adults still living in the real world with real jobs that take up most of our time. That's why at my age I am supposed to be settled down and not dumped back in the dating pool. I really don't have time! Did I mention how hard it is to be attracted to a man my age? Even I don't want to date men my age, why on earth would they want to date me? 

Oh, and don't even get me started about all the boy-men that say they are attracted to older women, when did all of this happen? I end up becoming their online mom telling them to date young, beautiful people while they are still young! Most of them are much to young to have seen "The Summer of 42"  
I feel like I have totally missed MY hot age. When I was young, men didn't want girls, they wanted women and now that I am a woman, all they want are young girls!!!! When do I get MY turn?

Thank you universe for making my life a bad joke! (Maybe I can get a book 
deal out of this?)




           My Cheap Fashion Fix

A sweet treat for Valentines Day without the calories!

A chocolate brown silk camisole 

and skirt with beading and embroidered

flowers

From DAV Disabled American Veteran's Thrift Stores

Johnny Was 

Original prices on their silk dresses

$198 and up
$3.95
My best find so far! 

For Every Action There is an Equal and Opposite Reaction! (but not always...)

We got married, so I left my career, to help him with his career. 
We had a difficult time having kids, so I went through multiple in vitro procedures, and he had a career. We were blessed with children, I raised our children, and he had a career.  The children grew up, I grew old and my husband became a child again. I had an SUV, he bought a Porsche! He hired a girl to help with his career and she became his young girlfriend. He said she was his right hand, what was I during all of those years?  He wanted a divorce, and I was surprised! 
He got a lawyer, so I got a lawyer.
I gave up everything, he thought it was nothing. 
Liars, new hires and affairs, oh my! My own personal yellow brick road.

I loved my career, I had worked many years to get to where I was and if I hadn't made the one change that altered the entire course of my life I would be making a great living entirely on my own and traveling to foreign countries (Nice ones, with fashion shows!) as well! (Breathe, just breathe!) 

Why is it that women are usually the ones that give up everything! (I rode the tornado, dropped the house and NOW you want me to get her sister's broom as well?) Not always, there are some awesome men along life's road (Somewhere...) that make the sacrifice, but it is still mostly women. Why have women still not achieved equality? Is it because men installed the "glass ceiling"? Finally, why did I not force my then future husband to choose an emerald city that would have benefited both of our careers? 

Now as I find myself on a the beginning of a new road, I am still so thankful for following my heart, instead of my brain. My children were worth every sacrifice, and if I hadn't had the courage to follow that road, I would not have them in my life. Now to find some red shoes......

My Cheap Fashion Fix

A dress in green to celebrate the spring!

From Nordstrom Rack 

 Vince Camuto 

Originally $128.00 

$8.24