Prompt Tuesday - The Blind Date Edition

THE PREMISE: Please describe a blind date. Make it up or give us a little truth is stranger than fiction. Bonus points and adoration from afar: If you make it up, include “Finland”,“chenille robe”, and “casserole” in your submission.

Any blind date that starts out with a casserole? Is destined to be a bad one.

 This was her thought as she pulled the bubbling dish from the oven. Honestly? Who meets a *new potential* at an office potluck – at an office where one does not even work? This had to be some kind of new low.

Of course, based on her sister's description, she had no choice but to go. The *perfect* guy only comes along every so often, right? At least the *perfect* guy who is also straight, available and gainfully employed, with the added perk of being new in town, after a transfer from Finland, making him particularly vulnerable to the charms of her secret recipe (cribbed from finnishcooking.com).

As she hung her chennile robe on the hook and started to dress for the party, she mentally recounted all of the *perfect* guys her sister had introduced her to in the past six months. And she almost put the robe back on and tucked into that casserole straight from the pan.

But, alas, hope springs eternal.  Ever the optimist, she put on her faux-office attire and headed out the door.

Prompt Tuesday. Want to play? Whether you do or not, go here and say howdy to San Diego Momma!

Tomorrow is Prompt Tuesday!

So, I am dipping my toes (for the second time) into San Diego Momma's pool of Prompt Tuesday. You ought to give it a try. It's.... um... fun? Wherein *fun* = OMG holy shit this is fucking intimidating whee! Head on over, ya'll.

This week's prompt: You’re in a mental institution. What is it that finally drove you crazy?

I mean, seriously, if that one doesn't have my name written all the hell over it.

Prompt Tuesday - the Mix Tape Edition

Dear John,

We've been dating for two years now, and there's just no easy way to say this. I've met my soulmate. And you? Are not him. Wow, actually, that was pretty easy. And cathartic.

You are a nice guy with many admirable traits, and I have no doubt you will meet a woman who will love and appreciate you for those many admirable traits, and look beyond your trucker chic wardrobe and the volcano bong everpresent on your wagonwheel coffee table and see the *real you*.

In the meantime, I wish you well and hope these songs will help you through this difficult breakup.

xoxo -- as a friend only --
Shana, 1986

Alone again, naturally

Please don't go
Let's just kiss and say goodbye
Breaking up is hard to do
I will survive

There goes my baby
All out of love
Lonely is the night
Baby come back

Sad Eyes
Love Stinks

I ain't missing you at all

This is my first foray into the land of Prompt Tuesday. And I'm a week late. Story of my life, a day late and a dollar short. John is probably better off this way. Thanks, San Diego Momma, for hosting and letting me play : )