The First Blog

To blog or not to blog...that is the question!

We as humans are by our very natures social creatures who want, if not need, to share our lives with others.  As a single woman living in a major metropolitan area, I often wonder what and how much to share.  For safety's sake I don't post on-line when I won't be home or on the flip side when I'll be home alone as you never know who might see what's posted out in cyber space.  Plus I'm an innately private person who typically keeps her cards close to her chest.  That being said, as a singleton who doesn't have someone at home to share my life with and, let's be honest, as a woman in my mid-30s, I want to share my life with someone to feel as if I'm making a difference and leaving my mark somewhere, somehow.

The question becomes...how much can you burden your friends with?  Most of my friends are in relationships (married or otherwise) often with children involved so, while they love me dearly, they can't always relate to my single life.  Not that they don't try...I know they care very much...it's just that we relate on a different level.

For example my best friend who is married with three kids can't relate at all to going out to dinner and getting "that look" when you ask the hostess for a table for one.  Yes, I said it, sometimes I go out to dinner and, gasp, want a table for one.  Not a seat at the bar but an actual table with chairs where a waitstaff comes to take my order and bring me my food.  I'll gladly pay for this service and will tip well for the hard work done by said waitstaff.  But until you've been there and done that you don't know the looks you sometimes get from the hostess who would rather save tables for a seating of multiple people (even if it is only two people) instead of seating one single person by his or herself.