Special Redheads

I was told once by a very wise person that everyone needs a special redhead in their life. I have several special redheads in my life currently.




Special redhead #1: Allison Pipkin Hite, my once girlscamp buddy and current sister-in-law of awesomeness. Karl and Allie are freakin' adorable together! I LOVE ALLIE. I pretty much can't wait for these two to start producing some super sweet ginger nieces and nephews for me.

Special redhead #2: Krystin Pipkin, pretty much my adoptive sister/niece-in-law. I love this kid. Between her twin obsessions (Twilight and HIMYM) and straight boy craziness how could I NOT love this chick? She is hot, and available. Tell your friends.

Special redhead #3: Mandy Shaff, roommate, BFFF and Shady Lady of super-awesomeness. It's kind of remarkable that even though I spend about a billion hours per week with this gal, I'm still not sick of her! Whether we're making a POA, puting in some facetime, scouting the Simbas, hanging with the faux-fam or making random phone calls at midnight on a Thursday, I relish our friendship like Mandy relishes froyo.

You'd think that with all these special redheads in my life that there simply isn't room for one more. But when a good, cool, attractive, nice, gainfully employed (not at a movie theater) redheaded man that is also fun, funny, and interesting enters the picture, you make room.

Would anyone like to take a stab at deciphering the meaning of this:

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Am I imagical enough for this to happen?

I like it.

And like can lead to like-like, and like-like can lead to love.

She & Him

Do yourselves a favor, and get this album.She & Him is Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward

...You're welcome!

That just happened.

About once a week Facebook shows itself as a mystical place where astonishing and bizarre things happen.

Exhibit A
My former fiance from 7 YEARS AGO and I had a delightful chat last night. We haven't been in contact in about a billion years, so it was interesting and odd and kind of great to hear from him. I'm glad that we'll have an easy rapport should we ever meet in a social setting, which is likely considering the cross-over in our friend pools.

Next.

So, that was quick. This week started out with two suitors in contention for my affections, and it is heading into the weekend with none. Crushes come and go pretty quickly around the Shady Lady Hideaway. It likely has something to do with the fact that I think it's ridiculous to waste time hiding how I feel about men. I know there's a place for seduction and a chase in relationships, and I am not inept at flirting. However, generally speaking, I have a no-nonsense approach to dating. If I like a man, I will tell him so. It's true that this approach leaves one emotionally exposed and open to all kinds of rejection. But I figure that I'd rather have the rejection happen NOW than weeks or months down the road. Sometimes I'm the one doing the rejecting, and sometimes I'm the one getting rejected. Either way is just fine. When the rejection happens early on, they aren't really rejecting me, they're rejecting the idea of me, which may or may not coincide with the actual me. This distinction may only exist in my mind, but it's an important one. Anyway, so long as the guys seem to be attracted to me like moths to a flame, I don't think there's cause to change my approach.

In other news, I still kind of have a crush on that one guy. You know the one.

Listamania!

I have recently started attending a singles ward for church. It's been fun and funny. My Bishop is a funny and genuinely delightful man. He has been troubled lately by the lack of proper dating between the members of the ward, so he adopted a plan that he has seen work in other singles congregations in the past. Each ward member filled out a slip of paper with his or her name at the top followed by a list of 5 people they would like to go out with. Once the lists are in, the process of comparing and contrasting can commence. If there is any cross-over in lists (you have written the name of someone that wrote your name as well) Bishop would contact the dude to inform him that he should ask that specific girl out on a proper date. Matchmaking at its finest.

My list was simple as I'm new and still trying to diversify my dating portfolio. I listed three men that I had hung out with in a group setting, one man that I talked with briefly that I find attractive, and one man that had spoken in Sacrament Meeting that day that I found both attractive and well spoken (important qualities in any sort of friend.) So far I know that I had one instance of cross-over (see previous post). We'll see if I get any dates out of the deal.