Starting to think Swingers is the Dating Bible.

There has never been a more truer moment from that movie for me as yesterday.....

It is uncanny... not even the moment but the EXACT moment you have gotten over someone or they have left your mind, they contact you and not to say hi but "let's discuss what happened".. "let's work things out"... "let's try again"... "Can I buy you dinner" ... "At least let me buy you a birthday drink"... hold on... pause...... pause..................... pause...... ya, WTF?????? The jury is still out.

So I'm 31. Not 30 but 31.. Ya, great.. now I'm IN my 30's. At least no one believes me when I tell them and I'm proud to say was ID'd on the weekend! No idea why I look young. I drink too much, eat bad food, suntan to no end, don't sleep, stress out & party like I'm 21.... nevermind that when I was 21 did all that and then some.... However, I will admit my one downfall is that yes, I have gray hair. Have had it since I was 21.... Thank God I've coloured my hair so many times that I have no idea what the natural tone is anymore.

So what does being in my 30's mean? That I have to start being "responsible" That I gotta be accountable for my actions? So what? I got to start planning for my retirement? May be invest in some real estate? or even better..... Start up a beauty regime?... What the hell is that exactly?

Here I always thought a regime was a "mode or system of rule or government or the period during which a particular government or ruling system is in power"... instead this is something I have to put nightly on my face?

Ok, WHAT is eye cream? What's in it that makes it only specific to that part of your face & how do you even use this? Do I put it in the corner of my eyes? Do I glop it on & leave it over night? Is it edible? (What if I suddenly run out of food & the elevator is broken & I can't get downstairs.. I need to know these things). OH but THANK GOD Prudham's there to buy me a bottle of it for my birthday! Ya, uh-huh... we'll just wait til next year missy. We'll see what you get then!

Other then having 300 stolen from me on my birthday (K, so now every special occasion has been violated. Robbed on Christmas Eve, My mother passed at Easter & robbed again on my birthday. This didn't all happen in one year but I'd say I'm on a great roll) but yes, it was a good birthday & is still going .....

Yes, I had 300 dollars stolen from me because I'm a, and let me get this right... A f**king idiot. I went to the bank machine to take out 20 to go to a Tarot Card reader (I figured it would mean something seeing it was my bday) and I left my bank card in the machine. I want to take this opportunity to state that I am smartish... I did Math competitions when I was in highschool that once upon a time there was promise for me! which is moot as the bank is currently investigating as they have cameras at the machines.

The 2 previous nights of the weekend, I had gone camping with Furniture Man, his family & friends at a place called Banana Island, a little remote island in the river between Kamloops & the Shuswap and had a GREAT time.

Don't quite know how to sum up the experience... may be this one antedote will help:

Sunday morning we're sitting around the campfire, and his brother Bart declares
"I think Someone is going to throw up"
Someone pipes in... "you?"
Bart "yes".

*PAUSE*

You can see the contemplation going across his face. Now anyone else would get up and walk away to go be ill. Not 2 seconds after Marie, who was sitting next to him, asks in a worried tone "Here?" He projectile vomited all over the fire to decree "Ya, that was the pickles.....THAT was the pickles". Guess that explains why it was mint green.... Happy Birthday.