buckethead

I had just been dumped by the fiancé and was out and about on a regular basis, trying to re-establish myself in the dating world.

tracy and i were at a local pasadena hang out, minding our own business, having a few drinks after work and basically just having a good time.  as we sat at the bar a cocktail waitress approached, she had two drinks on her tray and said, "compliments of the gentlemen" and pointed to two very handsome men about 30' away.

as much as i wanted to accept the drink i said to the waitress, "if they want to send a drink they can come over and say hello" - so she returned the drinks with the message.  about 20 seconds later, they approached us and said "hello". 

that night i met Chris.  he was good looking, single and a single dad.  at that time i vowed to never date a man with kids.  it had nothing to do with the kids it had to do with the ex's and boy did he have an ex.  she made his life as miserable as possible.

he and i dated off and on for a few years - we always seemed to come back to one another until the one day we said goodbye.  we just couldn't continue since he was not willing to be in a full time relationship.  after all he was recently divorced when we met <run don't walk signal number 1> and not ready to be in another relationship.  so the casual off and on dating was the best he could offer but it wasn't good enough for me <as it shouldn't be>. 

after a short stint of not talking to one another we finally found a place in our lives where we each fit, friends.  i consider him one of my closest friends and consider myself lucky.  we can talk honestly about our time together and laugh.  we have fun memories and he has been of enormous support to me throughout the 15 years we have known one another.

thanks for the fun buckethead!