"You love me because I'm fragile, but I thought that I was strong"

Two subjects to cover today so let's just dive right in!

1. Being Single
I hung out with my friend Chip last night. Among other things we played a few rounds of Tetris (who doesn't love that game?). In this version there's this cool female voice that lets you know how many rows you scored when the blocks disappear. Ex: "Double" "Tetris" "Single"
I noticed last night that every time I got a single the invisible lady's voice almost seemed to taunt me. "Single, Valerie. You're Single!" Yes, the sad truth of it is I am single. However I'm beginning to wonder if that's a problem. I had a situation in the month of December where I met someone and we became close, but it didn't work out. It really threw me for a little while. I felt hurt and I wondered why it didn't work. Then about a week ago my ex-husband texted me and told me that he's getting re-married this summer. That was kind of an interesting blow. I didn't think I'd have to worry about thinking about that for a while, but there it was. And so I've been doing a lot of reflection lately on being single and whether or not I'm okay with it. A lot of people told me that I'm doing things right by taking things slow and not jumping back into a relationship right away, but what most people don't know is I'm not really doing it on purpose. If I actually got to know a guy I could see myself with I'd dive head first into a relationship. I don't know, but I think maybe I haven't really come to a conclusion on whether or not being single sucks.

2. Embracing Mediocrity
As some of you know I have aspirations of being a writer. My dreams never really took off because of one very important principle of writing...I can never come up with a title. Not only that, but for some reason whenever I get started writing a book I get lost. Right around the middle I seem to forget where this book was going and sprint off in another direction. It's very frustrating. However, I have managed to come up with quite an interesting idea for a story. I feel that it will be hard to stray from the path of the story because of the subject. The title is called Embracing Mediocrity. It's an idea I've toyed with in the past, but I think now is the time to grab hold of my idea and give it life! Ha okay, that was kinda lame, but you know what I mean. Anyway, I'm crazy excited about this and I'll be looking for people to proof read and edit my work because obviously I'm not an expert on grammar or the like. So that is my main ambition right now, and since I'm averaging about ten hours a week at work as of late I think I might just have the time to start on it.