First Date and Follow Friday - Jan 4th 2013

I'm sorry that this post showed up on your reader a couple days early and then it wasn't there anymore. 

For some reason I scheduled it for Friday but when I hit publish it didn't go to "Scheduled" but went live instead. And I couldn't leave it up cos um, there was nothing ON IT! 

OK, so now that you've all been gracious enough to accept my apology, here is this week's FF!

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I've finally found her blog. You guys should go and visit with Yearning Letgo - I gather she has blogged before, but this particular blog was started up in Dec last year. Tell her I sent you. *smiles*

And Ms Jacqui can be found at Deferring to Dave. I must be getting old, for I thought I had already added her to my blogroll... as it turns out, I didn't. *sheepish grin*

I've also recently added Ami's Star Song to my blogroll... go take a look! Like many of us (ok, fine, like ME) she's curious about what her blogfriends look like... I've had the privilege of becoming non-anonymous cyber/FB friends with some of the women here and I must say, sometimes I'm completely off the mark when it comes to imagining what they look like!

And here's a fellow sprucer-upper - go give Jessa some encouragement over at His Submissive Wife.

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And now more good stuff : 

Remember The Year of Presentation? 

Well, I did it. I had a work event to attend last night, and BIKSS was going to pick me up after that and go get a drink and maybe a bite. 

So I painted my nails the night before, wore a tube dress with a lace top over it (work = school = some measure of modesty expected pfft!) and put on more make up than usual before heading out. It was going to be a dinner/performance thing, so I even remembered to take my lip colour with me for touch-ups. 

He got me after my thing and when I got into the car, he said I looked very nice! The nails were appreciated, as was the lip-colour. He took me to a place I'd never been where there were a few restaurants / pubs on the top of a hill, and we popped into a pub that was part of a well-known chain here, and had us a Kilkenny (for him) and a Midori n Sprite (for me)... plus some chicken quesadilla to nibble on. 

The guitar-man was entertaining,  we people-watched and told stories, and after a couple of hours it was time to head home. It was a great night, with awesome funny conversation, and he even managed to get in a swat and a pinch or two at the bar! (I was being kinda cheeky and teasing him about his potential guitaring skills - NOT!!)

So all in all, the first meet up of 2013 was a successful first date! It's encouraging to know we can still just-talk for hours and not run out of things to say! 

Here's to many, many more!!