Has it really been a month and a half?

Oh my, I can hardly believe how long it has been since I have written anything here. Time flies when you are having fun (or running around like a chicken with its head cut off! ha)

Life is trucking along. Family, work, and school have been consuming all of my time. We're finally going to visit the tree farm and put up Christmas decorations tomorrow afternoon. I have my last final exam this week (yay!), just in time for my son and I to do our annual Christmas baking. Rum cake, lemon-apricot cake, an assortment of Italian cookies and candies (truffles, yum!)... I am so excited!!! I'm putting the finishing touches on Kyle's new stocking. I quilted it. It's a surprise. Your child is never too old for an Easter basket or a new Christmas stocking.

My son turned 22 years old December 4th. I am still having a hard time believing it. He's supposed to be a little boy, not this 6'1 1/2", 190 pound, bearded man that I see. lol Seriously though, I am so proud of him. He is such a sweetheart! All he wanted was to go see the Trans-siberian Orchestra in concert. With me, his mother. Awww!!! Which we did on December 2nd in Raleigh. It was fantastic!!! They really put on an awesome show. Members of the North Carolina Symphony sat in and omg they were just incredible. We had the best time.

In other news, I did something I swore a blood oath (well, a tear-filled one more like) more than a year ago that I would not ever do again. Yes, stupid me tried her luck with an online matchmaking service once again. I've been too busy to date really, but like anything else we tend to put off until "the right time", the stars and planets will never be aligned perfectly for it and honestly I am sick of being alone so I just decided to do it anyway. Apparently I learned nothing from this experience or that one (the first). I thought I did, learn something that is, and thought I had a realistic picture of what I was about to face and had developed a thicker skin. Hey, did you know that if you grab a hot cast-iron skillet by the handle it burns you? Yeah, me too. And yet I have done it more times than I can count, both literally and figuratively. I'm very familiar with the ubiquitous 'definition of insanity is...' adage, but I think my problem is more along the lines of absent-mindedness. I just forgot it was hot.

Well, I'm not going to give up just yet. I've accepted all of the negative aspects and inevitable bullshit that comes with the whole thing and am hoping that it will all be worth it in the end. If not, at least I gave it my best effort. It's just that I know a kindred is out there, several I believe, and one day I will find one who will feel it too and in spite whatever fears or reservations he may have, he'll just say yes! And we'll spend the rest of our lives being ourselves and embracing and loving every single flaw and quirk the other possesses. I'm such a hopeless romantic.

Wow, it's 1:45 in the morning and I have to be up early. I promise not to let so much time pass between updates next time.

Here is the random six: (someone keeps reporting this post, even though the links to the songs were not active, so I had to remove the names of the songs. un-friggin-believable!)