September 16, 2008
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I’ve been socializing. At first it was with the high school reunion committee. We had the party on the 6th so two weeks before and the week after the emailing and phoning was constant. I wrote a thing about it which sparked much feedback so one of the guys started a blog but that’s died down.
Prior to that I met some people that I’m fond of. Remember the young woman I met at the Recorder Society? Well, she had a party a while back and I met a friend of her husband’s who is a commodities trader. He has been teaching me how but once he figured out how old I was and once I figured out how hard that game is — Well, today I told him that we probably didn’t have much reason to hang out. We both lost a lot of money the last few days and we were supposed to get together tonight but I called him and canceled. What’s the point? I miss him already, though. He stays up until 3 in the morning to watch corn, or maybe it was the dollar. So we’d talk for hours while I taught him about the stock market and he taught me about futures’ contracts. It was fun. He’s a Virgo, too, and a good teacher. We got along really well.
I also met someone from the meditation class. My voice teacher tried to set me up with him in the beginning of summer but he’s married so I said I wasn’t interested. That was until I read an email he’d sent me months ago that I somehow missed. He got his masters in India, worked for Llyods of London, came here and opened up a store, which he just sold, but his wife refuses to leave Chicago. We talk about meditation. I have a hard time keeping up with his logic and making out his English but he is fascinating. In person, though, he is very stiff.
It’s fun to spend time with new people but then I feel lonely when they fizzle out.
Comments (10)
Prudy, You need to find a good one that isn’t already in a relationship girl. You both need to be free to give it all.
My 2 cents.
hi prudence, you can never ‘plan’ to meet someone…when my husband of 40 years passed away last year, I vowed to never date again, let alone re-marry. Well, never say never and quite unexpectedly, you know I did get remarried. Life for me did begin again at 65. Have you seen my wedding pics at my blog? Anyway, I wish you the best; you are beautiful and savvy, a rare combination; your day will come. Just wait and see.
stop by sometime and say hello…
hugs,
sage
Hi,
We miss you (and your writing ) when you have gone off Xanga.
My xanga blog for my high school classmates is : Yappertoo.
Go check it out! I put it up and my classmates have been slow to come around. some create sites so that they can read only. I became the data person years ago when we were about to celebrate our 30th. Planning a trip to Vegas for our 40th, I hope. I have discovered that there is a thread which stitches us all together…….innocence of childhood. We had a marvelous experience.
You’re a rockstar, Prudy. I like how active you’re being, but let things happen, too
Hmmm. Married men spell trouble. In my opinion.
My computer crashed over a week ago and I’m just now back. Any luck at the local coffee house??? marilyn
Yay for socialization! Hey, even if they fizzle after a bit, with every one you are increasing your odds of finding a good lasting match. God, I hate fishing analogies but you can’t catch if you don’t cast.
If you are going to be gone for some days it is great to know that you are meeting people when you are. I need me some of that!
Or you could have a life like mine where I don’t have any dates or lovely interludes with men with whom I might have a potential interest… which is fine right now since both my kids are living with me and I get out enough to have a little fun flirting here and there and of course lots of dancing helps… you are like a creative sponge, though that’s not the right word… exploring many people, storing them in your great creative well where they will re-emerge when you begin to take writing the books in you seriously again… I can feel that… not so much that you’re actually looking to settle down with a single partner, I mean you would if the absolute right guy came along, but are exploring, exploring people and hopefully getting to the place where you will feel you are ready to let your creativity blossom… keeping notes on your travels through the social terrain here on Xanga is fabulous, and I can’t wait to see over the next years how you shape all this fabulous experience where you have put yourself out on the edge again and again… we are women artists, Pru.
Hmm. I’ve had a couple of memorable “new friend” experiences that fizzled out, leaving me really mystified, and yes, lonely. I always blamed myself for somehow not being likeable enough once they got to know me. Real weird personal dynamics, soaring from the heights of being enraptured by the new relationship, to the depths of complete and sudden withdrawal from the joy of it all. It always makes me a little cautious when I meet someone new and feel that excitement.