My best friend just told me it's time for me to settle down with a nice guy. WTF is up with that? How annoying.....I mean, if it happens it happens, but I'm not going to "settle down" just for the sake of doing so!!!

Didn't we already determine that you are really high maintainence gorgeous?

Why would you want to settle down and drive some poor lad crazy. Boy would have ulcers ;)

I think you take off the party hat when it interferes with your responsibilities. I took it off my junior and senior years of college when my major classes were really tough and I was in a serious relationship with the man who became my first husband. I simply had other priorities. After I divorced that man, I picked up the party hat again for a while. I had a group of female co-workers and we headed to happy hours every Friday after work. A couple of them were married, but we were all under the age of 28 and none of us had kids. When more started getting married and having kids, we slowed way down. We had a bit of a reunion last year and were laughing at ourselves because we were in a very trendy party zone in a suburb of Detroit and we left the bar by 9:30 pm and ended up at the Dollar Store buying stuff for our kids!

I'm relieved that it's no longer a tragedy to be home on a Saturday night, hanging out in my jammies with a good book or movie and a fire in the fireplace. I look forward to it! Once upon a time, it was a destroyed weekend when I wasn't "out".

Dee

I calmed down after I left college. Nowadays, I usually go to the local coffee shop and drink my capucino after work. and during the weekend, I head over to the local jazz bar and enjoy my wine or whiskey and enjoy my jazz.

Now, if there are functions to attend, I usually drink a bit more. Especially when the Irish and the German embassy hold their national day function. Always a good time.