So tonight my brother, sis-in-law, and the gang of kids came in. Yesterday was Coen’s 4th birthday and we wanted to celebrate with him. We went to Outback.

Anyway we get in there and a few minutes after we’re seated, through the madness of 3 kids trying to decide who sits where, I notice a guy near us sitting at a booth by himself. I normally feel bad for people who eat alone but I didn’t know his situation – maybe he had a date, didn’t have any friends, had to eat quickly – so I couldn’t judge.

Anyway, he keep staring at us, and I think mainly me (this is me being vain and probably a bit too self-centered for my own good – who knows what he was really looking at). I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because we’re so loud and obnoxious or there’s this nice looking girl (uh, me?) at a table with a bunch of kids and their parents can’t stop arguing. IDK, he was nice looking, around my age – possibly older – and by himself. Maybe he was single? And I still don’t think I’m that attractive but I’m not an old hag…yet. So there’s that possibility.

So I had that glimmer of hope he was actually checking me out instead of trying to figure out exactly how insane my family can get at the dinner table. (I have this new philosophy for 2009 – be more open to things. It’s worked pretty well so far.) So I kept glancing his way to see if he was still looking at our table/me. But every time he caught my eyes looking, I looked somewhere else. Then I was coloring with Kierani on her menu, talking to my mom, dad, brother, and Trish. Sane, so far.

Then Mom starts talking about how ‘so stupid!’ and ‘I didn’t get it…’ last Friday’s episode of Stargate Atlantis (‘Vegas’) was. Then Brian chimes in and states his theories about how it will unfortunately end next Friday. Then I chime in about how there’s going to be movies and all that jazz. Jack up the geek meter a little more, will you? IDK. Then the food came and he probably saw me stuff my face with my Alice Springs Chicken, fries, and other stuff on the table. Thank goodness he wasn’t there for dessert. Mess, I tell you.

Any interest he might have had in me probably vanished. But I don’t care. He was nice looking and noticed me, I hope. It totally does. It made me remember I need to get out there and find someone. As lame and cliche as that sounds, it would probably give me something to look forward to and make me happy if I had someone in my life. I signed up for Yahoo!Personals but you have to pay after so long. I feel like a skeeve whenever I log on and look at anyone’s profile anyway. I need to get over it. Heard plenty of success stories and believe I’ll have one too. Meh.

This story sounded better in my head. Ugh. Sorry I bored you with this lame excuse for a post. Just needed to get that off my mind.