How to make me smile in one easy step
I can't have a grumpy post up for too long. Just not me :-)
About two years ago, a friend of mine was working with a man younger than her. They wound up slowly building a great friendship and having this amazing mental and emotional love affair. It sounds corny, but it is true, things didn't get physical for a very, very long time despite their obvious attraction to one another.
It's the classic soap opera-esque tale, she's a single mother, wronged by her ex. He's involved in a loveless relationship, in the process of moving away to pursue a fantastic education in the culinary industry and trying valiantly to be a man of integrity and not allow his feelings and desires for my friend to take over.
Did that sound like an intro to "Guiding Light" or what?
During the course of their growing friendship, I kept insisting to my friend that there was clearly something there. It wasn't one-sided. It wasn't him attempting to get a little sumptin, sumptin on the side. There was a true and definite connection between them.
My insistence was that he needed to end the uber-unhealthy relationship he was in (she is a witch. And I don't mean it as an insult but as a descriptive term) and there would be an instantaneous relationship. And, frankly, I could easily see their relationship being far better and shining far stronger than any relationship I had ever been in.
I checked my voicemail upon leaving work today and in the span of 26 seconds had my frown turned upside down with the words, "He emailed me. They broke up. Stop giggling. Don't leave an 'I-told-you-so' voicemail for me either".
And in other news, wish me luck. Tomorrow I have the first of three speaking engagements booked after I gave my presentation two weeks ago. I don't know why I am so nervous. I rehearsed this presentation dozens of times at home and have already gotten up in front of a room full of powerful, influential people with more letters after their names than the alphabet and given it to a glowing review. And yet, those damn butterflies are assaulting my stomach.