Miss me?

Well, where does the time go? Do you ever ask yourself that?

Here it is a few weeks roll by and there you go it’s a New Year and the holidays are over!

I’m a bit glad the holidays have run their course. I’m not a big one for the holidays unless I’m someplace warm with a nice adult beverage in my hand. Then it’s a good holiday indeed.

In the meantime, my membership reverted to standard as the first of the year. If you’re a guy, it’s something of a death knell. You can’t email people easily and the whole insane winking thing comes with restrictions.

It’s okay though.

See, I’ve managed to date someone regularly lately and while I wouldn’t consider myself ‘off the market,’ I don’t find myself acting with any kind of urgency either.

I guess if I were looking for the perfect person I’d keep really pushing it.

Thing is, I’m not perfect, far from it and I don’t have the expectation the person I meet should achieve some ideal I’ll never come close to. So, the current situation suits me fine, unless of course I should somehow be bowled over which I highly doubt.

I can’t complain either because as long as a person is nice to me... well, that works just fine.

This year, Christmas and the holidays in general was a low-key event. It came and it went and truthfully I was more distracted by other things leading up to and coming out of the holiday anyway. I had a project I wanted to finish and then there was whatever shopping I decided to do too.

I have a cousin who is a widow.

Over the last few years whenever we get together she would quiz me on what online dating was like: How did I like it? Was I meeting anyone nice? That kind of thing.

She was asking for a reason of course. The reason being she was getting tired of being alone at night.

This is a woman who is approaching 60 and she doesn’t look it. As a matter of fact, even she forgets the whole age aspect of life sometimes herself (as she was describing a conversation that took place with her accountant and write-offs via IRA donations where the penalty is incurred prior to the age of 59 and a half).

She has grown kids, I think her youngest is around 26 now but that doesn’t mean she wants to stop living although I believe some of her kids want her up on a shelf like a porcelain doll.

So, her Christmas present this year was membership to a dating site (not this one). I am of course hoping dearly that she will meet someone to spend time with.

We were talking about it shortly after the holidays when I saw her and asked if she had initiated her account.

As she said, she wasn’t looking to complicate life and it was a statement I thoroughly understood because I am at that point where complications are the last thing I would want.

Companionship - yes.

Complications - no.

In any event, at the moment things seem to be going well in my corner of the world and I though I should at the very least update those who so wonderfully showed interest in my words.

Also, I wanted to extend a New Year’s wish to you all... may you find companionship in 2009! :) (1040 Views pre transfer)