Ah, Romance is in the Air

This weekend I will be attendin a much anticipated cocktail party. By myself. Which is fine, except for the fact that I am the only person invited who will be not part of a couple. Yes, you can pause to feel sorry for me. Okay, end of pity party. I am actually lookin forward to this party to celebrate the fact that I have a date with me. Please don’t pity me aain, that moment has already passed. Trust me on this, when I date myself I am never disappointed. The company is fantastic, the conversation is scintillatin, and the romance is uilt-free.

Please help me create a list of wonderful reasons for bein dateless. Of course I will inore all of these reasons if Mr Wonderful appears in date form within the next few days.

Comments

[Carl]

Well, for one thing, you are assured the best place on the couch.

[Rita]

You do not have to eat salads to look lady like and then pick up a bucket of chicken on the way home from the date.

[Peter B.]

"Well, you see... The papparazzi accidently killed the last date I took to a party when they ran over him trying to get a shot of me adjusting my stockings. I just can't put any more boys through that kind of abuse."

[Pink Poppy]

You will walk into the room both dateless AND confident, which will leave every man in the room with the impression that you are "unattainable", and therefore will make you even MORE desirable to them, which in turn will make every man in the room wish that THEY were dateless, too.

[Michele]

Carl: Can you go a full day without making a couch reference? Just wondering.

Rita: Oh no, am I SUPPOSED to be eating salads to look ladylike? I am glad you told me this BEFRORE I suggested that my next date take me to the all you can eat rib night at the local Tex-Mex bar and grill.

Peter: Now you know that is not true. I really CAN put more boys through that kind of abuse.

Ms Poppy: THAT is why you are one of my dearest blog-friends, that and the fact that you keep all my secrets.

[Dana]

Snce they will all be coupled, they will be the normal, average ones while you will be the exciting genuine one.

And I promise at least one of them will bring a single friend,

[Mir]

When you go out on a date by yourself, you're never left wondering why you didn't call again.

[Norman]

Your date won't embarrass you in front of others. Oh, sorry, you're your own date....um, never mind.

[Harry]

"I've got a very dear friend who has just gone through a messy divorce, and this is my way of showing her that it's OK to do these things on your own"

[Mamacita]

Perhaps I may have mentioned before that my son is single. . . . .

Oh, and if anyone is crass enough to ask you if you are alone, just look amazed and say, "Alone? Heavens no! The room is FULL of people I know!"

Or any variety of "Now why in the world would you need to know THAT?"

Now get out there and have fun.

[michele]

Dana: Oh you are so sweet, and I will let you know if one of them brings a single man...well, a wonderful single man that is. Yes, I am picky.

Mir: Oh, but I always do call myself the next morning, from lanline to my cell phone...heck, I would do it the other way around but I do not trust myself with my home number.

Norman: Very funny. Oh wait, did youjust make fun of me?

Harry: Good advice....do you think they will believe me?

[Michele]

Mamacita: You are wonderful and YES, I will use all of those replies....but just for back-up you will tell you son all about me, yes?
Well, actually, could you just tell him the good stuff. Okay? (wink).

[Mamacita]

Reasons for being dateless:

"He had to be on the set at dawn tomorrow."
"Last minute meeting. That damn White House!"
"He's laid over at Heathrow. But he played the latest wiretap of Charles and Camilla's ongoing tampon saga earlier this afternoon and it was scandalous!"
"He's babysitting Phinneaus and Hazel."
"You know how those ambassadors' conferences just seem to last forever."
"J.K. needed a little last-minute editing on #6."
"Stephen King's server went down, and they're transferring the manuscript over to mine. It's a tricky process; I hope they don't accidentally delete any of my stuff!"

[toni]

You don't need a date to feel good about yourself.

[Scully]

You are magnificent and wonderful and don't need a man. It's nice to have a date, but you don't need one.

It's also nice not to have to make sure the date is having a good time and not have to worry if one of your friends has either irritated date or is irritated by date.

And if you meet someone at the cocktail party you can leave with them. Well, you could do that if you had a date, but I don't think you're that kind of lady.

[Denise]

You are free to go out dancing afterwards with the devilishly handsome and charming stranger you meet at the party.

[jeff]

It's called being free! You don't really need the baggage...

[La Nina]

By going it alone you have carte blanche to be fabulous, fabulous, fabulous, and cause all sorts of scandal, scandal, scandal which you can share with us the next day so we can live vicariously through you. :)

[Lauren]

Something may show up in date form, let's hope it's not baked. Badumpbump

[Betsy]

See, you are braver than I am - I bailed on a party last weekend 'cause I didn't want to be the only uncoupled one there (there were other reasons, and it was a much smaller dinner-party thing, so that kind of excuses my chicken behavior, doesn't it?)

But I don't hesitate to go out on my own in larger settings - that way, I can talk to whomever I want, leave when I want to, and run my whole show.

[aussiemama]

Reasons to date yourself,
1. You can flirt outrageously with other party guests
2. You can drink all night without someone commenting/reminding you the next day when you get very sick.
3. You won't have to 'put out' after the date.
4. You can stay late, leave early, be a wall flower or table top dancer and no one will judge you (other than the 100 or so other guests), but at least they don't continue to judge you all the way home.
5. You can tell blatant and inflated lies - about what you do, where you live, who you know.

So go Michele and have a wonderful time with you, as I am sure you will.

[Curator]

Simply Put:

You can do anything your heart desires at any given time.

The only way to fly.

[flirt]

AHA! Now I understand how you have so much time to blog!! You don't have a significant other yelling at you to get off that damn computer in the wee hours of the morning!!!
Muah!

Flirt

[Cecilia]

*lol* I agree to all of what AussieMama suggested. You already know how fantastic you are so you should be happy that you are, indeed, dating yourself. :)

[Theo]

what's a date?

[Duke]

Because maybe, just maybe, I'll show up dateless too. ;)

[SEV]

coz its only when you go alone that you get the best guy at the party ?
oh wait, that means that you shouldn't go. i don't want someone else getting you now, after all my groundwork..