Day 254: Time to step it up!

Morning came very early today, and unfortunately even though it is the Saturday of Labor Day Weekend, I have a lot to do.

Keeping with the theme of the weekend, of course eating is on the agenda.

It was all taking place at a local culinary festival where I planned to chow down on food from some of the best chefs in town, and drink some fantastic wine.

I was meeting a few people there and they had my ticket in, but I was so tired I couldn't even comprehend the directions I was given.

I managed to find them, and begin the eating and drinking that was laid out before me like a feast for a king.

One of the people I was meeting has a culinary background, and along the way we started talking about dating.

He said 'as soon as girls find out you went to cooking school they stop cooking'.... me... 'of course they do!'

I went on to add 'do you know what I ate for dinner this week? Ground turkey mixed with a box of 50 cent macaroni and cheese and frozen vegetables. I'm not cooking that for a guy!'

He tried to convince me the dish was probably very good, but I quickly came back with 'no absolutely not, but I ate it because I was hungry and it was quick.'

For the record, that meal is definitely not something I would make for a guy I was dating, but it certainly speaks to my cooking skills and why I may be insecure dating a guy with that type of background.

He agreed to my point, and I agreed to his, so I suppose we agreed to disagree, and then continued on our regional wine tasting journey sipping our way through the samples at the festival.

At one of the tables I ran across more than just wine, I met a guy I thought was cute, and suprisingly enough he wasn't in his 20's.

Thank God, I'm not completely inappropriate all the time.

What's not to like, he was charming, and tastes and writes about wine... that's a dream job!

As the event winded down, and we all went our seperate ways I thought about sending him a 'tweet' to connect on twitter after meeting face to face.

I decided to go with a middle of the road approach and I did a group 'tweet' since he has my business card.

But I'm tired of being safe. As I sit here tonight I've been thinking about what I'm doing to stare down 40, and I'm not sure I know the answer.

I need to step it up! This is no time for sissies! Whatever happened to going kicking and screaming, I need to be fearless!