If Loving You's Wrong, then Baby...

We all know how that line ends, so I'll spare you.
(Awkward, nervous giggle. Pushing my hair back from my eyes, in what is hopefully a cute, flirtatious, yet not overtly-sexy gesture. I bat my eyes a beat or two...) We've all been there, too. The first date. Or - gasp! - the first blind date. The nerves, the anticipation, this ridiculously unfounded sense of all fate and happiness resting on this one evening of drinks and banter - you get what I'm saying. Why do we subject ourselves to it?

For the same reason I probably am subjecting myself to the same nerves, anticipation, giddiness, fear of rejection, etc., etc., that I am now doing with this very public blog - the need to connect, and the blissfully optimistic hope that, yes!, there will be at least one special someone who will one day say, "You know what? I like you. Want to do this again, and again, and again for as long as we both have agains and agains?"

Now, before you think I am a desperate cat lady who has locked herself into the old Victorian house that has been surrounded by rumors of hauntings and paranormal activities, or am a bitter fem-nazi who secretly resents the fact she has never been on a date and therefore crushes all men under her iron fist at the top of the career ladder, or am suffering from low self-esteem and am plagued with a billion doubts, I can assure you I am not. No, truly!

If you were to ask me, "Are you happy?" I could honestly and resolutely say, "Yes." And it wouldn't be fake chin-up resilience either. So that's enough out of you skeptics. There is nothing to be unhappy or unsatisfied with. I love teaching English, I love my friends, I love my family, I love my life! Period. Finito.

Except for one little thing:

Hi. My name is Elsie. And I'm an unapologetic Romantic. And this blog will chronicle my quest for true love, happily ever after, and a man who will cook me dinner and clean the mess he made cooking it. Snicker, scoff, sneer. I don't care. I'm in love with Love, and am ready for Love to love me back!