my funny valentine?

Did I mention that irony was the defining quality which dogs my heels these last few months? Like a dark, lurking creature, it lies in wait, ready to surprise me with yet another "ironic event" .

I have mentioned the moving back into family home gig -the place from which I couldn't escape fast enough when young? The application for transfer which was never going to happen but came through miraculously as one of my main reasons for transferring died in its tracks? This involves moving cities -not a small move. A big move, in fact. Sigh......

Well, here is another.

I fell in love with a valentine who had no heart. A heartless valentine in fiend's clothing who turned out to be no friend of mine. No saint, this man though a martyr to his own senseless, wasted cause. My funny valentine?
Sadly, no joke.

Never trust a scorpion!

Ah! sexy scorpions! How I love them! How they dote on me. Sad they are so far and few in between. Sad you can't trust them.

There is nothing like a sizzling passionate Scorpion, determined to have his way with you. Oh, those smouldering, scorpions! Be still, my beating heart.

This dark horse of a scorpion made an unreserved and ungentlemanly lunge at me. I was partially surprised -partially stunned by the full frontal nature of it. Nothing reticent here. No gently feeling your way, no suggestive caress, lingering touch or meaningful look. Just a full on lunge. Breasts firmly held, lips awash in lips, hot heavy breath.

I should have been affronted. I didn't know how I felt.

Then I thought -actually -I like this very much. I had a serious change of heart.

But of course -the cad is married.

You can never trust a scorpion. I will just have to swim away...

But T. , you set my heart on fire.

Wheel of Fortune

It has been some time since my last musing and how eventful that time has been.
I was moderately happy in love and settled in a job, home and social life.
Things change so quickly.

Within 24 hours my love life was turned upside down - it ended suddenly. To boot, I received a transfer to Brisbane. The irony of being transferred to Bris is that a small part of my request for transfer was to see how this relationship might develop if we were in the same city. The timing is so bizarre one can't help but wonder if some divine force is at work. Why?

It has taken me some time to get over this relationship as I was quite smitten and had foolishly let my guard down. Never again.

Now I am on the track to a new life. The card The World suggests itself at this point.

Let's lay down some more ironies.

I will be moving back into the house I could not escape from fast enough when I was 17.
As I leave my current location, a charming and sexy man has made a strong play for me. The first local to have done so in 8 years of residing here. Yes I know -he is making the play because it is safe to do so as I am leaving... Let me have my fantasies...

Any more to pile up? I think that is sufficient for one quarter, don't' you?

Oh but wait, there's more. One man takes me out to dinner but is too shy to kiss me good night. Another offers somewhat less in the meal department and somewhat more in the lust department -in much less salubrious surroundings. I know it is obvious which one is the more trustworthy, which one I should encourage, but I just can't make myself get hot and flustered for "the good guy". I know there are serious shortcomings with "the devilish one" too. It's hard not to pick the obvious self undermining going on here.

Maybe the Wheel of Fortune is stuck on a stone and just won't turn as I try to move my heart forward to catch up with life's other events which are overtaking me.

Maybe I should just get over it!