"I hope it doesn't take you as long as it took me to find the right one."
"Whatever."
"You don't think they're out there?"
"I don't care. I've got to work on being happy with myself and not put the burden of my happiness on someone else."

My mother seems to alternate between being fiercely independent and really needing a man. If I'm going to follow in her footsteps (serial monogamy), then right now I need to do my best to conjure up some of her strength for these in between times.

Last year I got really drunk on St. Patrick's Day and started to accept the changes occurring inside.