The weekend has been absolutely awesome weather-wise. It is the perfect mix of warm and cool, a day you can spend entirely outside and never really get gross and sweaty. The pooch and I spent a few hours out yesterday to watch the parade which made me predictably sappy about how awesome America is. I loved how many creeds and colors were represented in the parade, how there was a black guy on the drum of the Japanese float, how there was a little black girl performing with the Irish dancers. The pup ate various things off the ground and got plenty of love from fellow parade watchers. I sort of wish it would rain so I wouldn't feel like such a dork for being inside watching Extreme Forensics and putting off some much needed housework.
In the "this is why I'm single" file, I got a nice note from a guy on the dating site about a two weeks ago. He seemed like a nice guy through our several e-mail exchanges. In the minus column, he is divorced with three kids. His kids stay with him through the week and with his ex on the weekend. I told him that I was concerned about talking to him because I didn't want to flake on him after getting to know him better because I really didn't want any baby's mama drama and all the other complications of joining a family in progress. I'm at the point however, when I'm trying harder not to throw out the baby with the bathwater so I decided to press on and see where this might go. So we talked on the phone a few nights ago and I was underwhellmed but still feeling like I shouldn't rush to judgement. Last night we talked and he mentioned he was working on second book. Naturally, I was intrigued. Then he told me what the book was about. It's about a "strong black woman" who is secretly insecure and "experiences things she never thought she would." The tags from the website where it is listed include "lesbian" and "down low", which for the uninitiated is engaging in homosexual activities while maintaining a heterosexual lifestyle. The people doing this usually insist they aren't gay or bi-sexual. That's just weird enough to tip the scales for me.
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