So Many Men, So Little Time

So it appears that word is getting around Florida that I, a soon to be legally single 40 something year old gal w/fabulous highlights, am about to be on the market again. In fact, just today I came home to find three rather lengthy voicemail messages from powerful, charismatic men seeking my time and attention. “Choose me! Choose me!”, they all pled! "Wow", I thought. "If this continues, my social calendar will be full in no time." Strangely though, they all only seemed interested in my availability on one particular day - Tuesday, Nov 2nd. Wonder what that’s about? Anyway, I’m not going to overthink it. I’m just going to take it as a sign that things appear to be looking up for me. :) Hope they are for you too!

An October to Remember

This has been quite a month. I started it traveling back through time.

(I spent the first weekend of October in Winter Park catching up with my old high school classmates and the second one up in Pennsylvania reminiscing with family and celebrating my cousin’s milestone birthday.) Tomorrow I’ve got a pre-dawn date with a wizard and I’ll be cloning myself. I can hardly wait to see what the final week has in store.

Tomorrow’s date is with a much younger man I’ve heard a lot about… one who gives the term “sending out sparks” a whole new meeting. Specifically, I’ll be meeting a guy known for a lightning bolt - shaped scar on his forehead. While I’m looking forward to seeing him, I don’t give us much of a chance. For starters, I don’t anticipate our being able to spend enough time together to see if there could be anything between us. Not only that, I understand that he’s in pretty hot demand and I don’t share men.

Don’t feel sorry for me though. If I don’t feel the magic with Harry, I understand that there will also be a significant number of men in uniform in the vicinity, as well as some very accomplished athletes and a few real characters.
Should be quite the interesting morning.

Once a month I run a 5K with a group of friends and tomorrow, we’ll be participating in the Universal Pursuit 5K, which is being sponsored by the Association of Chiefs of Police for the benefit of Special Olympics Florida. The course winds through City Walk, Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure. Though I've been to CityWalk recently, it's been a while since I've been to the parks. I'm really looking forward to checking out Suess Landing and The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

Dr. Suess and I go back as far as my own childhood. I'm not much of a cat person, but put one in a hat and you've got my attention. As for JK Rowling's contribution to the liteary world, she did what no one before her was able to do and what no one since has accomplished, she got my child to read for pleasure. For that, she'll always have my undying devotion. I would imagine that seeing Horton and his whos, Gertrude McFuzz and that snow covered Hogwarts Castle while running through the parks is going to be quite the rush. I can't wait!

I have done a lot of things in the Universal entertainment complex in the two decades it’s been around. Among other things, I’ve danced until the wee hours of the morning. I’ve dined on fabulous food and I have been catapulted through the air on some amazing rides. Tomorrow, however, will be my first time breaking a sweat there and I love that I'll be doing it for such a good cause.

To make tomorrow even more interesting, while the real me pretends to be an athlete and runs with cartoon characters so some real athletes – the Special Olympians - get a chance to compete, a pretend me – a cartoon me - will also be exercising. “I’ll” be nearing the end of a virtual walk across the country in order to increase the chances for some other special folks – a group of real warriors – women who are battling Stage IV breast cancer. Since its inception, I have been pleased to participate in this annual “event”, a 31 day online trek across our great land with a throng of other people and stops in almost every major city.

I really love this fundraiser! For a mere $5, participants get to create an animated version of themselves, “walk” the country without getting off their couches and help a group of women who really need and deserve some love and assistance. Maybe you’d care to join me for the last leg of this little jaunt… If so, log onto https://www.galtogalwalk.org/ and register.

Well, gotta go get some beauty sleep … so I’ll be ready for a day when two of me will be logging some serious miles. Sure do love these win-wins!

My First Time

So… I did it. I read a few articles so I’d know what to do and then I did my best to prepare. I went to the store and bought something nice. I put on just the right outfit. I put on some music. I made sure the lighting was right and then I … painted a room a color other than white for the first time in my adult life. The experience went exactly the way the books said it would: I was nervous. I was exhilarated. I got a good workout and I think it will go better the next time.

The room I painted was my guest bathroom. It was Mint when I moved in and now it is a shade called Fresh Avocado. (I’m sensing a theme here. Anyone care to join me in the loo for mojitos, chips and salsa?)

I selected Fresh Avocado because it is in the same color family as the predominant shade in my shower curtain. The problem is that this particular hue is a little too saturated. Since there are no windows or skylights in the room, it is now looking rather dark and a little too much like a 1970s Frigedaire. (Hopefully when the white towels and the shower curtain go back up, the end result will be a little less overwhelming.)

I reminded anew about the skill it takes to properly select and apply color and it makes me want to give a shout out to the team at Hot Heads who always get it right. Diane - who normally does my color - you are amazing!

The End Result :)