Cleopatra and Chocolate Cake.

All right, so it's been over a month since I've posted. Pretty much, my life has been on hiatus. I am enjoying the lazy summer and instead of constant bad luck, I seem to be at a null. The most exciting thing to have happened is counting down the days until our family trip to the Florida Keys. YAYYY!!!

But then....

I started a new book this week, and as I turned a page in this book, a fortune cookie fortune paper fell out.

"Soon you will be sitting on top of the world."

I was giddy, excited that a happy new fun chapter might be starting in my life. That was a Sunday night.

It is now Wednesday. It's been a pretty good week.

I've gotten to spend a lot of time with my li'l sis, just me and her, which has been really great. I also found out that my dad is a brilliant cook. Reading the new book has also put me in this really good mood this week...it's called "The Memoirs of Cleopatra", so (duh) it's all about the beloved Queen of the Nile. Just reading about how strong and amazing she is kind of rubs off on me and makes me walk around trying to be that way as well.

So, on Monday at work at the hotel, in walk these two young guys in suits. They're here for a week on business. I don't pay a lot of attention to them at first, being that I'm on this dating fast for a while and have no desire to be in any way involved with any man...however, one of them keeps dropping these comments to his co-worker about rockclimbing, working out, macho stuff, blah blah blah. This makes me roll my eyes literally, of course.

But, then, a little while later, one of the guys comes back downstairs to make his way out to the gym -- the guy that had been bragging about rockclimbing and all that jazz. I actually observe him this time, however, and he's pretty cute. Tan, dark hair, and these gorgeous big gray eyes. He asks me if the gym is across the street and, distracted by observing his looks, I say, "Oh yeah. And there's a tanning bed, too." Insert foot in mouth #1. He just looks at me.

"Uhh, tanning bed?"

The phone rings, saved by the bell. I'm red in the face beyond belief and can't believe that statement had really just come out of my mouth.

The next day I see him again, and he makes a comment about the tanning bed, so the hopes I'd had before about how maybe he hadn't heard me when I'd said it flew out the window. I then said, "Hey, your partner just walked out the door to go get food."

Wow. Insert foot in mouth #2.

"Partner?" He asks. "First the tanning bed, and now my partner? You must think I'm gay."

"Uh, I put my foot in my mouth a lot," I joke.
"Oh yeah?" he says, grinning. "How does it taste?

Then he asks me out for dinner with him, so I feel relieved that he actually has a sense of humor.

Unfortunately, I'm working so I can't go to dinner with him that night.

So, we talk for quite a while that night, and I learn that he is not only getting more and more extremely good looking as he keeps talking, but he's also intelligent, he's got a masters degree at only 23, and we have some unusual, but refreshing things in common. He also likes to keep eye contact 100% of the time as he's talking to you, so I tried my best to do the same. It was hard. I almost passed out.

I hated to leave last night. I wanted to keep talking and getting to know him.

But today was the kicker. He came in and talked for a bit and then, when he came back from dinner, he had a bag in his hand.

"I brought you chocolate cake," he grins. I just stared at him. I wasn't sure if he was being serious. Did he realize just how much I am obsessed with chocolate?

"Are you trying to win my heart?" I ask him.
"Hmmm, who knows," is his coy reply.

This is the best chocolate cake I've ever had in my life and ol' Gray Eyes is definitely winning points with currently Man-Hating Tabitha.

Stay tuned.....