Skillz

Dearest Fam,

So, yesterday was Valentine's Day.  This day is normally foreboding and somewhat ominous in the wonderful world of singledom, but I usually just let it pass like any other day.  This year, I decided that I was going to step up my socialness.  Yep - I was going to put forth as much effort in the area of dating and getting to know more males that I could without crossing into man's territory of being in control.  In order to do this, I decided that I would have random group dinners at my house.  This consists of me plotting who I could invite that may not know each other and then inviting each person individually so that they feel more special and inclined to attend.  So far, so good.  2 dinners down and the result?  At least 1 date that I know of.  Not for me, but for my friend.  That's good too, right?!

So getting back to last night.  I decided to have another group dinner.  I know it was Valentine's Day, but I made it non-pink-non-romantic-just-good-clean-fun!  There were 5 guys and 5 girls.  We had breakfast for dinner and I made the guys draw from a hat the station that they were assigned to - omelets, smoothies, pancakes, sausages & hashbrowns, or dinner table setting.  Everyone was assigned a post and the fun began.  I was on the dinner table setting with my friend Rayne.  Rayne is 6'10".  Yep.  Pretty amazing.  He is the tallest man that I know.  I call him the "Gentle Giant".  He is super nice.  I told everyone there that they had to find out 3 interesting things about the person that they were with and report to everyone at dinner.  Rayne told me about how he played professional basketball oversees for 4 years, went on a high speed chase with the California Highway Patrol (over 100 mph for 20 minutes is intense!), and has been a movie extra often and was almost the stunt double for Vince Vaughan, but was too tall. :)

The evening was a success with our final guests leaving after 5 hours o' fun!  Yeah, we were VERY tired at that point, but kept smiling and laughing!  Many stories were shared, much  laughter and joy was had, and people got to know each other better.  Mission accomplished!  We'll see if anything comes of it.  I have a pretty good track record of setting people up and something actually coming of it! :)  We'll just call it my skillz.