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                                                          Gucci Glasses, Johnny Was Tunic, Uggs Booties, Johnny Was Scarf, David Yurman Couture Ring

I am an easy date.  I had been off all day running errands, but we had scheduled time together for a quick dinner out and a movie. We have a new favorite theater close to home, which has those reclining seats so we are super jazzed to go to the movies now more than ever.

There is a salad I love, at a restaurant he never wants to go to, so I offered to pay for dinner to make the prospect more attractive.  (Just a life lesson here…men absolutely love it when a woman offers to pay for something here or there. They melt.)

Which brings me to the big event near the end of our movie date. No, not that big event.   Throughout the movie, there was a girl next to my husband, who was clearly not that into the guy who brought her.  She was literally texting some other dude on her phone the entire time.

Ten minutes before the film is over, her date curses her loudly, threw her purse and phone down as he ran out of the theater calling her terrible names.  All of which were probably accurate.  My husband helped her pick up her MAC makeup that was all on the ground at our feet, before she left.  She had a sheepish look on her face as if…oh crap, he caught me, this is super embarrassing.  

As we left the theater a few minutes later, I’d looked around to offer her a ride, but then decided that the guy she was texting throughout the movie needed to come pick her up.

Back to me.  I’m an easy date for my husband.  Females do not really think enough about how much a simple movie and dinner night out costs these days.  My husband and I are so glad to not be part of the single universe. I know men hate it. My male friends…yes, even the rich ones constantly bitch about how expensive it is to date these days.  And they really hate it when the woman doesn’t think twice about the cost.

I literally got ready for my date in 25 minutes.  In and out of the tub, throw on a black Johnny Was Tunic and pretend it’s a dress, a scarf to look like effort was applied, and the coolest new Uggs  that will be a staple this winter because they are so comfortable.  My mean work peeps are like, “…but there’s maroon fur stuff on them” and I’m like “I will deal with it for the comfort factor.” I’d come across them at Nordstrom Rack and decided they were wonderful.

I love my life right now. I love my husband right now. We both are so happy which is kind of scary because you don’t want anything to happen to mess it up.  I tell young people all the time, that you do not know what love is. You can’t. You think a crumb of cake is exciting until you have an entire cake. Until you have an entire cake, you don’t know that a crumb is just a crumb.

A female friend of mine that’s almost 60, and about to get married again, after divorce and grown children recently said, “I have literally never been so in love and happy.”  This confirms my belief that we don’t know as much when we’re young. Generally speaking.

We left our movie date telling each other how much easier life is to not have to deal with dating people and hoping to come across a decent person. He then calls me an Easy Date which I can assume has a lot of different meanings.

-SDS

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