One off the Bucket List

There is not a lot of daring and adventurous items on my bucket list. I do not want to hike the grand Tetons or scale the face of El Capitan. I do not want to be the CEO of a multi million dollar corporation. I do not want to have some thing exotic or domestic named after me. On the contrary, my bucket list is rather mild mannered. It's full of small things. One of those small things just got crossed off.

A random stranger at a wedding told me I was hot. Okay so maybe not a bucket list kind of thing since it is full of random unpredictability. But you have to understand that between my sister and I and my girlfriends and I, I'm usually what is referred to as the Ugly Duckling. My mother favored my sister's looks with new clothes, professional hair cuts and trips to the beauty counter to learn how to apply make up. Her friend Heather always took her back and re-taught her, but that is another story. My girlfriends were always trying to get me to be more girly and it never occurred to me that anyone would think that I was pretty even if I wanted them to. And we were so young it didn't matter. Honestly, I had all sorts of hobbies and interests so it never bothered me to go unnoticed by boys until just recently. And I've always been on the quirky side of things since I'm a geek. Sweetie is the first person in 6 years to really appreciate my looks and that is kind of hard to get used to. So I've been content to have his compliments and my primal feminine self is content at last. And I go about my life making me happy.

One of the things that makes me very happy is a great purple shirt from India that is rather gypsy like. It's dark so it favors a fuller figure. It has a lace-up bodice so it shows a bit of daring and adventure. and in the right setting I look like I'm ready to lay out a Tarot spread or cast Arthur's sword back into the lake. I wear it for evenings out. And I wore it to a wedding reception last weekend. The midriff is bare which, even though I've lost an amazing 16 more pounds made me rather nervous. I never know how things like this are going to be interpreted,. But I was going to be hanging with the work crowd who already know I'm kinda weird so it was okay. In a crowd of rednecks I stood out like a witch in a Puritan church. Yikes!!!! But my group, who has seen this twice, was totally cool with it. And I just had fun.

At the end of the evening, as I am headed to my car and perfectly content to get some shut eye, I was stopped by three guys. I had my key aimed at the door lock when one of them asked, "Are you having a problem?" I must have given him the go-funny eye cause he hurried up and finished his thought, "Cause you look HOT!" My only response was "Thanks. But no." He walked away offended. But some totally random stranger said I was hot. It used to happen to my sister everywhere that we went... to the point of being annoyingly sickening. And I always wanted that kind of thing to happen. So it has. Cross it off the bucket list.

But as always seems to happen when I cross anything off that list, I end up adding something else. That item is: Random guy thinks I'm hot and tries to pick me up & I actually have a great response that takes the event in another direction. No more dead end streets with these random acts of life.