{This time last year...}

Around this time last year it was snowing pretty heavily. I had plans to go to the Chatfield Botanic Gardens for their Christmas lights show while our friends were going to the Denver Zoo lights and I was going with the guy I liked. Well, it was snowing so bad, and I was to drive, that we decided to only go to dinner and then head back to my place and play Dance on the XBOX. It was extremely fun and I had a blast. As the guy was leaving for the night though, I walked him to his car in the snow to talk to him since my roommate was home (it was a private conversation). I wanted to know what we were doing and that I was not looking for a friends with benefits type of relationship. I said dating was fine and then we could figure out what we wanted. He said, "Then we're dating." and I got the sweetest kiss before he left. A few weeks later, I got a text from him that was pretty dramatic and essentially said he no longer wanted to date.   I was pretty upset by this and the way he went about it.

Anyway, a few months later, I started hanging out pretty regularly with a friend and began liking him. We also talked about it but things didn't work out.  Oh well, no big deal.

Now, here I am a year later and I just let me online dating site run out and I won't renew it. I've been texting the South African guy pretty regularly still and, yet again, he invited me over to his place.  What I know, without a doubt, is I will not meet this guy in the privacy of his home but out in public. I know what I want and, dammit, I will not settle.

I was reflecting just a little bit ago on this time last year and what I was doing. I was single then and I'm single now. No biggie.  I got this.  As depressing as it is at times (LOL), I got this.