Last night I attended a networking event for work, it was very interesting and informative from a work front.
London, like most cities can be a lonely place, people don't seem to talk to each other unless the situation, such as this event, demands it.
I make conversation wherever I go, earlier this week I met a pre op transsexual who is a slave to a madam (I couldn't even make this stuff up)
Having said that despite how chatty I am, I'm actually quiet shy. It baffles me sometimes why people would want to be friends with me, I've never seen myself with much to offer in that regard.
But last night I met a lovely woman who apparently wants to be my friend.
We got chatting about the event and the topics surrounding it, gossiping about people we knew in the industry, talking about families.
She has exactly the same sense of humour as me and seems like she'd be a really good laugh.
When you meet someone and you click like that you just know don't you? It was ridiculous that at the age of 28 I still had the feeling that I desperately wanted this woman to like me and be my friend.
How needy is that?!
It was like wanting to sit with the popular girls at lunch and always feeling outside of that group, this woman is successful, funny and cool, why would she want to be friends with me?
At the end of the event she asked if I had a business card (I don't have cards I am definitely not important enough!) so she suggested I write my email address on one of hers so she could email me and arrange to meet up again.
I was elated! Someone wants to be my friend, someone liked me enough at the first meeting to want to get together socially, I was sitting with the popular girls!
It's quiet a pathetic side to my nature really, that I like this kind of validation, but hey, it got validated!
So as I get older and making new friends is as difficult as meeting dates, if not more so, every now and again someone comes along to remind you that sometimes life can be like sex in the city, so Miranda and I will go out for a cocktail in skyscraper heels to find Charlotte and Samantha :-)
Until next time
Love
SG
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Thursday, 6 March 2014
Wednesday, 5 March 2014
Oh brother where art thou?
I haven't met someone for ages who has made me go "phwoar!" Having been single for some time now I had started to think it was going to take someone pretty special to get my knickers in a twist.
Southern comforts daughter turned one on valentines day this year and we had the party the day after.
I should explain that my raging hangover that day was not my fault, ok it was slightly my fault but due to the single ladies of my new workplace wanting to go out and my insistence that I was only going to a little while (an outright lie!) the next day I woke up feeling a little ropey.
But the most important thing was that I was there on time and ready to help, and I didn't break my promise, I put on an oscar winning performance and no one guessed that I could have thrown up an any moment. Particularly when on the bouncy castle, why do I do these things to myself?
Southern comfort has two brothers, one of which is married with two lovely children, this brother was the heartthrob of our school and everyone fancied him, he must of got sick of the attention from his younger sisters teenage friends!
The other brother was so quiet I don't even really remember him being at school if I am honest, we were all too busy looking at brother number one. Fast forward ten years or so and brother number two is (as I suddenly realised at the party) bloody gorgeous!
Now southern comfort is aware that I think her brother is a hottie so this won't come as a surprise to her, but it came as a surprise to me as I really didn't expect to be taken with someone I hardly know.
Not sure what to do about it as I am not convinced he could pick me out of a line up if asked but there you have it, it turns out I am not dead from the waist down.
But you know that feeling when you fancy someone and you think about them a bit more that you would care to admit? It's a nice feeling to have sometimes. It takes me back to being young and having crushes on people that you'd never spoken too.
Not sure I should encourage southern comforts match making though, she is a terror for it!
Until next time
Love
SG
X
Southern comforts daughter turned one on valentines day this year and we had the party the day after.
I should explain that my raging hangover that day was not my fault, ok it was slightly my fault but due to the single ladies of my new workplace wanting to go out and my insistence that I was only going to a little while (an outright lie!) the next day I woke up feeling a little ropey.
But the most important thing was that I was there on time and ready to help, and I didn't break my promise, I put on an oscar winning performance and no one guessed that I could have thrown up an any moment. Particularly when on the bouncy castle, why do I do these things to myself?
Southern comfort has two brothers, one of which is married with two lovely children, this brother was the heartthrob of our school and everyone fancied him, he must of got sick of the attention from his younger sisters teenage friends!
The other brother was so quiet I don't even really remember him being at school if I am honest, we were all too busy looking at brother number one. Fast forward ten years or so and brother number two is (as I suddenly realised at the party) bloody gorgeous!
Now southern comfort is aware that I think her brother is a hottie so this won't come as a surprise to her, but it came as a surprise to me as I really didn't expect to be taken with someone I hardly know.
Not sure what to do about it as I am not convinced he could pick me out of a line up if asked but there you have it, it turns out I am not dead from the waist down.
But you know that feeling when you fancy someone and you think about them a bit more that you would care to admit? It's a nice feeling to have sometimes. It takes me back to being young and having crushes on people that you'd never spoken too.
Not sure I should encourage southern comforts match making though, she is a terror for it!
Until next time
Love
SG
X
Monday, 3 March 2014
Coming up for coffee
I realise I haven't filled you in on what happened with the drunky monkey date.
After I had out him on the train and he text to apologise/offer me sexual favours I had written this date off.
But I was swayed by a couple of people at work who said he may have been nervous and to give him a shot, after all we had loads in common at the start of the first date.
So I relented and he invited me for coffee close the my office, he would text me when he was near my workplace he said.
At ten to six I text him to see if we were still meeting, I don't finish till six but I hadn't heard from him since that morning. No reply.
So I took myself off to the station, my train leaves at half six and that was all the time I was going to give him. Half six came and went and I left on my train home. I was half expecting a text to say he had arrived but I figured in those circumstances I would just arrange it for another night, I hadn't taken him out of his way.
No text. Nothing, from that day to this I haven't heard from him. Part of me thinks he just wanted to see if he could get me out with him again and once this was confirmed he wasn't bothered about meeting up.
Perhaps the thought of sobriety that evening was just too much for him.
Whatever the reason it is incredibly rude and I am very happy I didn't waste time hanging around. I deleted his number quickly to avoid any circumstance where I might sent him a "you're a fucking shit bag" text (it's tempting)
A colleague of mine is single and has agreed to go speed dating with me, after some persuasion. She is an avid football (soccer) fan and said she didn't think it was be for her as that's all she'll have to talk about with the men. I'd say that makes her almost every mans dream woman!
Until next time
Love
SG
X
After I had out him on the train and he text to apologise/offer me sexual favours I had written this date off.
But I was swayed by a couple of people at work who said he may have been nervous and to give him a shot, after all we had loads in common at the start of the first date.
So I relented and he invited me for coffee close the my office, he would text me when he was near my workplace he said.
At ten to six I text him to see if we were still meeting, I don't finish till six but I hadn't heard from him since that morning. No reply.
So I took myself off to the station, my train leaves at half six and that was all the time I was going to give him. Half six came and went and I left on my train home. I was half expecting a text to say he had arrived but I figured in those circumstances I would just arrange it for another night, I hadn't taken him out of his way.
No text. Nothing, from that day to this I haven't heard from him. Part of me thinks he just wanted to see if he could get me out with him again and once this was confirmed he wasn't bothered about meeting up.
Perhaps the thought of sobriety that evening was just too much for him.
Whatever the reason it is incredibly rude and I am very happy I didn't waste time hanging around. I deleted his number quickly to avoid any circumstance where I might sent him a "you're a fucking shit bag" text (it's tempting)
A colleague of mine is single and has agreed to go speed dating with me, after some persuasion. She is an avid football (soccer) fan and said she didn't think it was be for her as that's all she'll have to talk about with the men. I'd say that makes her almost every mans dream woman!
Until next time
Love
SG
X
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