Has there ever been for you a guy or girl that somewhere, pushed way back in the swirl of people you've met in your life, that you really wouldn't mind, if it were to happen, just happenchancely bumping into...and, if it were to happen, you wouldn't mind a little something sparking up between the two of you? For most of us single people out there, there is at least one person that fits that description, and usually it's more than one. Unfortunately, my list is getting smaller. They're dropping like flies. As you may have figured out, I'm home for the holidays. Wow, that sounds like an old person with a real job, but it's true. I'm writing this from my parents' computer in my family room...which will no longer be my family room in a few months because we're moving, but right now it is, and I'm typing a blog entry in it. It's been nice to be home, and I've enjoyed spending time with family (especially since my father was in the ER a couple of weeks ago with chest pains and his heart stopped...he's ok, but it's good to spend time with him and my family), and attending various social events to see long-lost friends. Which brings me to the "ideal boy list." It was at the alumni game. Have you ever felt just a little bit of air, involuntarily, of course, kinda sigh out of you when one of those ideal "I wouldn't mind running into you" kinda people (opposite sex, of course), finally does run into you, but before you know it, the words "I'm getting married" slip out of their mouth? It happened, again, tonight. I won't use names to protect the innocent, but it's just kinda depressing. Not that you ever really expected to ever get together with that person, but it's kinda like one of those fairy tale sort of dreams that you always thought would stay alive sorta shrivels up and dies right there. The real world faces you more directly every time, and your very practical, quickly growing up life gradually begins to invade the space that those fun, flitty little dreams used to occupy. I'm told that one day one of those cinderella story dreams will actually happen to me, but I have my doubts. Maybe. Someday.