HOME TODAY..........

Last night was a coup of sorts at the Elks.  It has been a good old boy place for so long and the guys have had a strangle hold on things being done.  Last night the vote came in for two women to take over very important positions at the club.  One for Secretary and one for Treasurer.  Every one's hope is that the rift that has been going on with the boys will be eliminated and we can go back to having fun with cooperation and charity......which is what the Elks is suppose to be about.

Still have not heard a word from Bruno.  Vet man checks in on me everyday to see if I'm okay.  I know that Bruno is knee deep in his world and he does focus on his business to the point of distraction for me.  He can be so thoughtful and then go off for days with no contact.  We'll see if he surfaces sometime today.

I'm staying home and trying to get things done.

RAINING AND COLD......

Last night I paid off a bet I made with Vet man.  I told him if I lost this bet I'd cook dinner for him.  He picked the date and Monday it was.  I made a pot roast, roasted onion, buttered carrots with parsley mashed potatoes and chocolate cake for desert.  The wine was a Cask Cabernet. 

Vet man never comes on time.  He is one that comes early and can throw a monkey wrench into things.  He arrived, this time, a half hour early baring flowers.  It is a funny thing. I really feel weird about having him in the house.  It seems that Bruno has taken over everything and to have someone over, even though innocent, seems disloyal.  I'm sure Bruno doesn't think that when he is dancing with the multitude of women he asks to dance when he is traveling around the country and God knows what else.  I will give him the fact that he tells me about it.

I really wasn't feeling up to par last night and it was a pretty short evening.  I think he might have been here less then two hours.  Vet man likes to pass things by me that is happening in his life.  He said he valued my opinion and does take things to heart. Like all people that have children and are divorced they are never done with them.  He's been divorced for twelve years and the kids are in their thirties and live back East, but needless to say there are always problems. I guess just having kids is a never ending scenario, divorced or married.

Today it is pouring rain and a cold storm from Alaska is coming down the Coast.  I promised some people that I would go to the Elks to vote on a matter tonight, and although I'm not looking forward to getting out tonight, I have to go.

The time is getting close to decorate for the Homecoming for the four hundred people that are attending.  I have boxes of favors in the office and need to do other things to get ready for same.

 Sunday a friend of mine asked if I would join him to listen to music.  I did and there was this amazing girl that played an electric violin.  Who knew they had electric violins.  They were four band players in this small place and it was deafening but very, very good.  They played oldies and current songs.  The crowd was older and the place was packed.  It was better then sitting home doing nothing.

Life right now has been pretty boring.  Bruno is AWOL, and should surface the end of this week.  So with that I will close and hope that things get better.

 

A FEW THINGS.....

I heard from some peripheral men yesterday.  One that was suppose to be moving out of town but said he was still working in this area.  He has been dancing around for months but hasn't had enough courage to ask me out.  I'd probably say no anyway.

The young poet that is handsome, talented and wishful is someone that still contacts me and I send short messages to him. He lives in LA county and again, he is way to young, but I love his verbage and way of thinking.  He did get published on Amazon.

A lawyer that I had drinks with has gone into the woodwork.  I had to laugh.  At one point, a while ago, I had sent him a text that said, "yes, no, or maybe."  He answered with, "soon," lawyer speak for never.

Also there is a man in Connecticut that contacts me and has been for a long time.  Another traveling man and certainly not near by.  He again is someone that is fun to talk to via phone, but I've never, and probably won'[t ever, meet him.  Although I've learned to never say never.

The other night I stopped for dinner and this young Indian man came in.  The place I go that is very comfortable is like a Cheers place.  They have great food and you can go in alone, sit at the bar and eat.  Well, this man asked if he could move closer to me and said he didn't want to be alone.  I don't own the bar stools, so I said, "yes, of course."  He proceeded to tell me about himself.  He lived in Yorba Linda, owned his own technology company that was located near Tustin.  He was really chatty and bought a few rounds of drinks, oysters, and then said, "let me buy your dinner."  I kind of thought better of it, but said okay.  He went on to ask me if I wanted to go out on Valentine's Day and he would send a limo for me and we would go to L.A.  Not in this lifetime.  He bought two more drinks of Johnny Walker Blue and I told him I really needed to get home.  He put his name in my cell phone, not that I would ever call him but it was a pleasant enough evening.  He was way to young, around forty seven.....what is it with these young men liking older women.  I guess I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Brruno sent me a text last night saying he was thinking of me, I really missed him last night.  Vet man came for his drink, brought me candy and a card and then left for a meeting.  So, Valentine's was busy, at least via phone.

Home this weekend and hopefully I can get some drawers cleaned out. 

 

VALENTINE'S DAY..........

Another Valentine's Day.  Bruno is out of town, what's new.  He got caught in the great blizzard of 2013 back East and was stuck in Connecticut for days.  Nothing in or out,  no trains, planes or roads opened. 

Bruno called me Tuesday night and left a message.  I was at the Elks packing boxes for the Vets and didn't get home until late.  He called back the following day and was a little cranky.  He said he thought he was getting a cold and would probably try and go to the walk-in medical place in Maryland which is where he is right now.  He is closing out several jobs in Maryland and then will leave for Alabama. He was suppose to come home tomorrow morning and we were suppose to go out Saturday night, but the storm put a monkey wrench into that plan.  Now he is coming back either Tuesday or Thursday.  I bet on Thursday.

I received a card from him that was a little out of character.  It was cute and loving.  It said "we were meant for each other," and showed two cute character dogs kissing with hearts around them.  On the bottom he wrote, "at least in our minds.......so true.  I can't tell you how many strangers tell us we look like we belong together and also ask if we are married.  Now do you know anyone that goes up to a perfect stranger and asks that.  We have thought of a rude answer, but I won't put it in here.

I drove down to my friend's house in Laguna Niguel to see her.  She had knee surgery with the same doctor I had my surgery with and we compared scars.  Use to be we would compare boys, trips or whatever.  Really a sign of getting older.  Scars, really!!   Cripes!!

I'm home tonight but Vet man is stopping over before a meeting to have a drink.  I bet him on the Super Bowl and he won.  I'm cooking dinner for him on Monday night.  He texts me every day, certainly wish Bruno would do that, but it is what it is.  If I didn't have married friends whose husbands can go away for weeks on business and they never hear from them I'd be pissed, but Bruno is so business focused and compartmentalized I do understand.

Through the months that I haven't been posting the Blog there have been several interesting meetings and calls from men that have come out of the woodwork. I'll put more in tomorrow's Blog to let everyone know about them.

Have a Happy Valentine's Day........mine will be next Saturday.
 

RETURNING........

Hi everyone.  Due to several requests I have decided to resume my Blog, which really is more like a journal of what is going on in my life. 

Since I've been off the grid there have been a lot of things that have happened in my personal and public life.  I am still seeing the same man, although why I couldn't tell you.  If anyone else had treated me like he has, lying, not being a man of his word, etc, I would have said goodbye a long time ago.  Somehow I can't do that. Idiotic I know, but it is what it is.

He said he would be my escort to the Marine Corps Birthday Ball and of course I didn't believe he would show up.  I bet my other guy a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue ($160.00) that he wouldn't show up.  He bet he would.  Well he did and cost me that bottle of scotch.  The man is totally unpredictable.  Of course he tells me if he was vanilla I wouldn't like him.  I told him I'd be happy if if he wasn't Rocky Road.

He came to see me last week, before he left for the East Coast  for two week,and as he walked in he said, "I don't know what the draw is, but I can't not see you....seems to be a mutual fatal flaw. He came around 10:30 a.m. and was leaving from LA at four pm.  He still had to finish packing and had a car picking him up. I had made Senate Bean Soup and we had lunch here.  I told him he and his best friend acted like they were thirteen with indiscriminate dicks walking around. He is totally the ultimate bad boy, being ex jock, again my fatal flaw, although at one point when we where fighting about what he did I told him I didn't want twenty four seven.  I said I had taken care of one broken down football player and didn't need another one.  He has not forgotten that statement and brings it up a lot. He has told me a million times that he wants to be casual, but after three years it is hard to keep that in mind, obviously for both of us. 

 Of course he will be gone for Valentine's Day but has promised to take me out the 16th to a new restaurant and dance place called Posch in Irvine.  Since the East Coast has been slammed with a blizzard and he was in Conneticut and headed for Maryland next week it is a debatable point if he gets back or not.  One thing for sure is nothing is for sure with him.

I spent most of December and half of January sick, but am so much better now,  thank heaven?  I've more or less resumed by activities with the Veterans.  I'm on a Committee for the return of the Hawaii/California State President Homecoming dinner for the Elks.  We are expecting four hundred plus people and a group of us spent most of the day last Thursday putting favors together.  Darling little black boxes that we filled with See's candies, liners, closed up and put a small black bow and sticker on the front.  Since I'm co-chair I now have them all in my office in boxes and will take them in the day we finish decorating the room. 

My other male friend, who would like to have a relationship, has been taking me to dinner.  We do work on the Veterans committies and I find it relaxing to go out with him.  No pressure.  He has his own issues, don't we all, and we discuss a lot of things. He has a current girlfriend, which is good but   he is fascinated by my relationship with Bruno (the name my problem child wants to be called, he calls me LuSinDa.....spelled with the Sin not the cin.

I have met a lot of guys out and about, but no one has sparked my interest.  Not to mention they all have sex on the brains and think you should jump into bed at the blink of an eye.  Silly boys! Some of these men stand tall on their wallets, but money isn't everything.

March is going to be maintenance month for me physically.  A little nip tuck under my chin, a dermatology appoiontment to smooth out my chest area.....I swear I was hung in my past life as I can't stand things around my neck.  My icky hammertoe correction with the Orthopedic guy and hopefully that will be it.

I'll continue with this Blog and try to keep people up to date with my sometimes interesting and sometime boring life.  There is a lot more to relate, but for the first time out of the box for a while I think I will stop now.