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Shannon, originally uploaded by jeffb.

In going along with the NaBloPoMo theme of want, I wrote this rant/mission statement of sorts for what I am looking for in a partner.

I want to find a man who has beautiful eyes and manly hands. I want to find a man who wants to know my brain and heart as much as he wants to know my body. I want to find someone who appreciates a healthy lifestyle but also knows the meaning of moderation. I want to find someone who values touch, connection, and honesty as much as I do.

I want to find someone who has read a book in the past month, who knows the value of a good night in and a good evening out. I want to find a man who enjoys camping and hiking. I want to find someone who enjoys travel as much as I do and who wants to see the world with me.

I want to find someone who treats waiters and bartenders with respect just as he treats his family with respect too. I want to find someone who loves animals and treats mine not as burdens but as the members of my family that they are.

I want to find someone who tips more than 10 percent and sometimes pays for parking rather than make us walk ten blocks in the cold or rain. I want to find someone who knows how to manage his money but is also ready to treat me to a nice dinner now and again.

I want to find someone who seeks to contribute to something outside of him. I want someone who is passionate and interesting and makes me really, really think and consider other points of view.

I want to find someone who encourages me to be a better person without being controlling and difficult. I want to find a man who sees past my insecurities, can put up with my incessant talking, and sees someone he wants to love and build a life with.

I want to find a man who isn’t afraid of my honesty and who isn’t afraid to be honest and authentic with me. I want to find a man who doesn’t play games with me or my heart. I want to find someone who has the balls to step up to the plate and to be the one to chase (or at least be direct) instead of requiring me to chase them.

I have put up with much less for much longer than necessary and I will one day find someone who at least embodies some of this and if not I would rather be single than be led on, provided with mixed messages, be chasing immature or confused men, and/or a part of some lame chess game where I am a mere pawn.

It feels good to be figuring things out.

(Thou shalt not take personally).

introspection, originally uploaded by TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³.

Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.

Tori Amos

(Going along with the NaBloPoMo theme for February).

354/365 off the beaten track, originally uploaded by obo-bobolina.

The NaPoBloMo theme this month is Want, so I am going to share my “Bucket List.”:

1. Ride on the back of a Harley motorcycle.
2. Make love in a thunderstorm.
3. Backpack across Europe with a friend or partner.
4. Visit the Tuscany region of Italy (and Florence).
5. Spend some time in Seattle.
6. Visit a nude beach.
7. Attend a bonfire on the beach.
8. Return to the UK.
9. Go to Burning Man.
10. Live somewhere outside of the Midwest.
11. Drink a mint julep in the South.
12. Own a home, with a porch swing and roses (again).
13. Get more tattoos and perhaps another piercing.
14. Photograph models.
15. Find a positive, long-term match for myself.
16. Walk across Abbey Road.
17. Write for a local/familiar publication.
18. Simultaneously own Converse sneakers in multiple colors/designs.
19. Get my freakin’ driver’s license.
20. See more Broadway musicals/plays.
21. Travel to Amsterdam and smoke pot in a marijuana bar.
22. Walk through the Red Light District (before it is gone).
23. Travel through Asia with a friend or partner.
24. Possess a bottle of Chanel No. 5.
25. Learn conversational Spanish well.
26. See the canyons of Utah.
27. Visit San Francisco.
28. Attend a game at Wrigley Field.
29. Ride in a limousine.
30. Take a ride in a helicopter (and not the emergency kind!).
31. Meet Ani DiFranco.
32. Escape from the rat race at an age when I can still enjoy doing so.
33. Finish my family scrapbooks.
34. Own a pickup truck.
35. Drink Guinness in an Irish pub.