i like the lane that i'm in...

So as I drag my tired/sore/achy behind home through the icy winds from my early morning bootcamp torture (we were outside on the track running laps from 6.45am ), I started thinking about my girl Betina's bday dinner last night. Alebit a brief get together for myself- unfortunately, I had to exit stage left before the meals were served to get some sleep for bootcamp- I had a really, really good time. Why?

Check this out...

Of the twelve amazing women there (11 black and 1 Asian), only one of us was in a relationship that we could or even wanted to claim. And no, it wasn't me or the Asian chick. Mind you, all of these women are at the top or very near the top of their game (except for me again... I'm still begging folks to buy books so that I can keep the lights on). And that's definately not what made it a good time.

Here's the fun part...

NONE of us seemed sad or depressed about it. NOT A ONE. I promise you, every single one of the eleven women was straight chilling. And it wasn't on some 'bitter-scorned-women-who-hate all men' type -ish, it was more like, we're all in a really good place with or without a significant other. There was this positive overall sense of being more relieved NOT to be in a half-ass relationhip than concern about being single " at our ages." I swear, Oprah would have been so proud of us!

I mean sure, we mockingly complained about our struggle to connect on the long term with any new men with a 4-year+ college degree/ 410k investing/ 1 baby or less having/ decent looking/ interesting personality/ passport using or as in my personal case, the above average bedroom skills to which I've become accustomed. 'Cause we've all got amazing exs... And just to ensure that we continue to do our part, as of next week, Nicole and Melissa will be valiantly leading a group of us to weekly pole dancing classes so that we can err-um, keep our credentials updated. Hee-hee...

Sigh. It was just one of those wonderful a-ha moments that remind me why I love living in NYC.