Happy Halloween!!!

I had every intention of going to costume parties this weekend, and didn’t go to a single one. Doesn’t that suck? I love dressing up, and was looking forward to getting into something sexy/spooky. I wasn’t compelled, however. None of the parties were enticing enough. These days, I take issue with being charged in excess of $30 to attend a party that isn’t completely promising.

I also have nothing for trick-or-treaters. I never do. I feel kind of bad, but the neighborhood kids are generally bad-asses, and I’m really not excited about the prospect of opening my door to them. I’ve only participated one year that I’ve been in my current home, and only because there were other people over at the house.

This weekend, I had one of my book club meetings. We read Shadow Baby by Alison McGhee, and agreed that we liked it. The rest of the weekend was a bit of a wash. I procrastinated a lot, and met the new boyfriend of a friend.

It was interesting to meet her new man. She likes older men, and this one is about 18 years older. He was a very nice man — youthful for his age (except for the gray hair), and we had a good time. The only thing was that he spent a lot of time talking about how he wanted to fix me up with his friend, which wasn’t much fun for me.

Here’s where my friend and I differ: First, I hate being fixed up. If someone wants to put me in the vicinity of a hopeful prospect, fine, but the intentional, forced fixup is a harrowing experience for me, because most people don’t take my taste into consideration.

Which segues nicely into my second point, which is that I don’t do well with men who are that much older than me. I’m not the sedate, settle-down-able woman that some of my friends tend to be. I’m still the wild, youthful (juvenile), girl that loves excitement. Older men can rarely keep up, and I don’t know that I want them to try.

That said, I tried to keep my friend’s beau from getting too overzealous about the fix-up that’ll never happen. My friend, to her credit, stressed to him that I’m not happy about being set up. Fortunately he didn’t have his cell phone with him, otherwise he would have called his buddy on the spot. The planets were aligned in my favor, apparently.