It's Days Like These..

When I'm drunk and coming home from an office party and wishing I was coming home to climb into bed with you.

Another Dating Blog?

This is sort of a dating blog, isn't it? But I suppose that is because I've been single and of dating age for nearly the entire life of L.I.A. Anyway, I was chatting with Jill today and we half joked that we should start some sort of dating blog to keep track of all our misadventures and perhaps dispense some advice along the way. She came up with a rather grand list of post topics that I loved:

-          6 degrees of separation / internet stalking-- within 1 week i met two guys who were friends with (name withheld)

-          Karma -- Blowing people off / getting blown off

-          Flag chasing -- dating / hooking up with foreigners

-          Making the first move is fucking easy

-          Shitting where you eat – dating someone at work

-          Mystery undies – the moment where you realize you've brought too many people home because you found a pair of boxer briefs that you can not figure out who they belong to.

 Spoiler alert – you always throw them. away and don't ask around

-          Tiny penises – yes they exist, and yes they're an issue, and no it's not common

-          Always give compliments – a how-to guide to help men get more BJs

-          Give me a real headshot will you? – yeah, I pick who I'm going to go out with based almost purely on how your profile pics look.

 Sorry

-          Metamorphosis – watching your friends watch you go from "in a relationship" to "single" and how it changes their view of you

I had a single topic so far: Ghosts of makeouts past. About walking by or going to spots where you had great dates or made-out with people and constantly being haunted by them.

I think this is a best-seller, right?

There is a First Time for Everything

Just want to make the mental note that today was the first day I have ever, officially, been stood-up. Now, I'm off to the movies with James.

Thanksgiving on Long Island

Turkey, choreg, candied yams and eggplant parmesean.

Spooky Recommendations for the Halloween Inclined from Elizabeth Bird on Vimeo.

I never read Goosbumps when I was little, or those scary collections of short stories that were so popular among my classmates, but I did enjoy burrowing under the covers late at night with a flashlight to read frightening kid hero driven novels by Anthony Horowitz and Richard Peck, whom wrote a particular favorite- The Ghost Belonged to Me.

Since kids love scary stories so much, last year Neil Gaiman came up with the idea to get more kids reading on and around Halloween with a new initiative called All Hallow's Read. A super great idea that is really simple (aren't most great ideas the simple ones?): Give a kid a book on Halloween. I am the "aunty" who is always giving kids books for birthdays. That might not make me the most popular aunt but I loved getting books when I was a kid and as an adult, I still do. I also loved being read to as a child and you know what? I still love that as well! Instilling the love of reading in your kids at a young age is so important. It really does make them life long learners.

So this Halloween, give a kid a book that will make sure to scare the hell out of them. Choose one of the many featured in the video above or might I suggest or might I suggest The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman himself. I read it last year (actually, I listened to the audiotape, I told you I like being read to) and loved every spooky, heartfelt moment. Your kids can also join NPR's new kids' book club, which chose the The Graveyard Book as their first pick. Kids who sign up can chat with other kids who are reading the book and even send in questions to Neil Gaiman, who will be talking about the book on All Things Considered on Halloween.

Coldplay still makes me so happy. "I rather be a comma than a full-stop." I don't know what that means but I love it.

A Hand in Mine

I fold his hand into mine- a hand lonely, yearning. I am tired of men asking if I'm real. I AM real. This is me. This is all of me. I don't know how or in what direction to be unreal- more sexy? more sweet? more aloof? My question is, are YOU real?