Last night I crashed in bed early (11 pm or so) and I slept till 9 am this morning. I haven’t done that in ages. I feel completely human again and my brain is capable of thinking today. I’d almost forgotten what that felt like;) It should be a good day.

Now on to the subject of dating. I’ve had a few friends ask me about if I’m dating, have I been dating, etc. as I used to blog about some of my online dating experiences. So I’ll answer here and get everyone in one shot;) No, I did not date this past year at all. Too many reasons to get into on here (I may be open on here about lots of thing, but hey even I have things to keep to myself;)) Although my close friends know the details. I have been feeling like getting out and dating again recently. Which led to a realization. With my new job, I work from home and so I think part of the reason I’ve been feeling like dating again is that it gets me out of the house and talking to someone in person, what a novelty, lol. With my job I’m on the phone regularly, but it’s not the same. I have to admit that my life is too busy and I don’t think I’m in the right headspace for a relationship. But dating (which if you read a really old post DOES NOT mean sex, lol) is something I’m thinking of getting back into. So last night I put up a profile on one of the sites and we’ll see what happens, but from past experience, I suspect I’ll meet some nice guys and make some new friends. Which is alright by me.

I’ve got lots to blog about but not a lot of time, so I’ll just throw some bits and pieces of all of them in here.

My life:
1. Had a dinner date last night, it was fun, good to get out of the house and relax.
2. Working a lot lately, not too much longer till we spill the beans on the business. You bloggers will get a lot of the goods first;)
3. kids are doing well, school starts way too soon. Alec’s last week at camp, at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery this week, learning sculpture. Bram starts preschool this year, big changes.
4. Completely surprised and thrilled by the surprise marketing big wig visitors to my blog this week.
5. I watched Poseidon, a great thriller, wish I had seen it at the theatre.
6. I’ve got someone new in my bed lately. He keeps me warm and provides hours of stimulation. He showed me a movie last night. Helps me with my work and may very well be my new best friend. Even better yet, the company paid for him;)

NB Election:
1. Daily Gleaner today had an article about women in politics from the PC party. I actually agreed with a fair chunk of it.
2. I saw the liberal’s new ad today, their second E as Hilary Casey referred to it.
3. Hello to all of you who are finding my blog searching for T.J. Burke and Mike Smith and all the other candidates. I bet you didn’t expect to find this type of blog, lol. They make up a significant number of my search strings the last few days. At least if I don’t count the bizarre search strings like “parking lots girls voyeur” that seem to keep cropping up, lol.
4. PC’s suddenly won the lottery or something, lots of money being talked about.

Alec and Bram both had an excellent *first* day at school yesterday. Both were bubbling with enthusiasm about how much fun they had. Bram is at the same place he has been going to daycare, but in a different building, new teachers and new programming, but with most of the same kids. Alec likes his new teacher. I don’t know her very well, but I played basketball with her a couple of years ago and she does seem very nice. I’m going to be scheduling a meeting with her to discuss some of Alec’s challenges.

I’ve got a bunch of partial blog posts that I just haven’t gotten around to finishing, about;

 1. the election

2. exercise, weight loss, etc.

3. the business

4. dating

Soon, soon, I promise.

That’s what things have been reduced to lately. My challenge in life will be to achieve balance. And while I am making an attempt, in that it’s only 12:45 am tonight and I plan to go to bed in a few minutes. My typical time to bed for months has been between 2 and 3 am. The mini attempts at balance have been weekly basketball and time with the kids. But I’m feeling stressed and cranky because I haven’t gotten out for anything else fun in a while and committments are piling up. I haven’t been on a date in ages. I go through whims where I window shop in the online dating sites. I have profiles on them, but they’re inactive and hidden because I sucked at keeping up with correspondence and was never on msn. So instead I just browse every so often and look at the profiles of those I’ve chatted with before and remember what it was like to have a social life, lol.

However the good news is that we’re hiring in the next week or so and that means a huge weight off me. I’ll be able to have more time to try and find some balance in my life.

jajakoom, I haven’t forgotten about you. Plan to receive some artwork in a week.

Dan, thanks for the bugging, it paid off. I needed the prodding;)

To those of you who emailed me asking if I was still alive, thanks:) Yes, still alive.

P.S. Anyone with php and ajax skills interested in a full time job? Email me for job description details. You can find my email in the about me page.

P.P.S. Anyone want to drag me out of the house to a movie?;)

I will try to blog more responsibly;) And yes Dan, Spinks, Scott, Andrea, Harold, Skylark, Jordan and all the rest of you, I’m still reading and nearly caught up on all of your blogs:)

I was reading Kymberly’s blog and saw a post about a new book out called Single Mom Seeking. I think it would probably be interesting reading. I’ve been dating again recently after a long break from it. I find that my perceptions about dating have changed a bit since I first entered the dating scene 3 years ago. Then I was dating a lot, met quite a few men, made good friends and just overall learned about dating life today and what was important to me.

Now I find that my interest level is there, but in a different way. I’m not as interested in meeting a whole slew of men and filtering through them and all the time and process involved in that. I know what I want and what is important to me. Some of my “list” has changed. So I’ve been “meeting” a few men and mostly making friends again. I find that the same challenges always seem to come up. Feeling connection with someone is still a rarity. Things like trying to organize custody schedules to line up a time frame that works for both people. Or some men seem great but don’t have children of their own and want to have a family of their own. Trying to align all the factors can be challenging.

The bottom line is that I’m happy with my life, with who I am and I don’t need a relationship to be complete. I’ve got an incredibly busy life, and dating provides an outlet for me to get out and enjoy some company for a while. If something from a date does develop into something more. I’ll take my time but I won’t be afraid of exploring the opportunity to have a wonderful partnership with someone.

Now for my long time loyal readers. I know I’ve disappointed you lately with no juicy dating scoops;) I’ll let you know when anything news worthy comes up;)

Updated: Since Dan has so politely requested this umm twice now. And I do give him grief about not posting enough pictures of himself on his blog, I suppose it’s only fair;) Here’s the pic, blurry and all;)