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So I finished Confessions of a Shopaholic and I do have to confess I wish my life ended that grandly! To have everything work out at the end must be nice but something that I definitely am not use to nor does it actually ever happen to me.  But I guess if it did then we wouldn’t have the need to read books and go see movies with happily ever after endings.  Things seem to work out in my world at times don’t get me wrong–I was fired from a job and I ended up getting one that was even better than the one that I had and I have since managed to establish a career of sorts! I turned not the feeling that I had of not having any friends in this town any more into a part time job staffing events so now not only do I  going out and meeting people, I get paid for it! Granted everything has its drawbacks, but having an additional income is nice and it gives me something to do with my weekends besides going shopping and spending my money in other sorts of ways that I shouldn’t be.  I have also met a lot of people but they just haven’t been anyone that I would go out with but at least I am out there! I am waiting for the day that some guy will come up to me and tell me he fell madly in love with me at some event I was working.  A girl can hope can’t she???

So today I took the train back from NYC to Washington DC.  And so with every train ride or trip part of me is hopeful that someone interesting will sit next to me and strike up a conversation making time fly very quickly! Part of me hopes that someone tall dark and handsome will or someone somewhat cute who has a very fascinating job of some sort! This is DC after all! Or someone I can have a passionate debate about politics with! But what do I get today,…? I get a woman who is in her late 40s or 50s who is overweight and who smells funny sit next to me while her I believe mother sits in the other empty seat on the other side of the aisle so I was resigned to my book for the duration of the trip.  And as I suspected,…only in movies does a really nice handsome guy sit next to you whom you end up falling madly in love with.  I did get someone to talk to me while on the train from DC to NYC.  This was a while back and he wasn’t sitting next to me but I guess he noticed me and started talking to me while we pulled into Penn Station and were about to get off.  He struck up a conversation and I didn’t even realize he was talking to me.  I finally pulled out my headphones to be polite and we chatted for a bit and he asked me for my number.  I don’t even remember what his name was but he was this guy who was training for a triathlon.  I ended up meeting him out for a drink once and this was about two years ago and we chatted and I really wasn’t that into him.  He was kind of short and he had longish hair and he had just gotten out of a fairly long relationship I guess and he had wanted to go running together which I thought was extremely odd.  I never called him and he never called me so perhaps that ended the way it was suppose to.  He was kind of on the shorter side and kind of skinny and I swore he wore camels to meet me out and Capri type like pants which were not acceptable at all either.  Definite fashion faux pas for straight men in my book! These are the type of men I meet– not your brilliant multi-millionaires that women in books and movies meet.  I’m more than happy to settle for someone who is at least a fraction of that–just smart with a decent job will do.  How hard is that????

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