Never in the right spot.

I'm always either a step behind, or, (not to brag) ahead of the pack.

In the Step Behind Department; now that Sex in the City is long over with, I had my first Cosmopolitan drink the other day....it was excellent. I know that everyone who is "in the loop" is probably now drinking new and fancier "in" drinks, and would likely gasp with disbelief if they heard me order one (although I don't even go to bars anymore, but that's a whole other department) ah yes....I am a Step Behind.

I watched TV the other night, my very first episode of CSI. I think it was a Las Vegas one, I am so far out of the loop that I didn't even realize that there were like 3 different CSI series. It was really good, but I am too far behind to keep up. Ah, yes....another Step Behind.

But on a brighter note, my Ahead of the Packs are pretty good. Although, now that I stop to think, they were Ahead of the Pack a long time ago, so they are sort of Step Behind now. Damn...I just can't win.

I was a HUGE fan of "Pillars of the Earth" long before Oprah read it and gave it her Royal Nod of Approval. I was a Richard Bachman fan before anyone knew he was Stephen King...and I bought his books that were published when he was "just" Richard Bachman. I liked souviner spoons and collected them (all 600 and some odd that I have) before you found them everywhere, but of course no one collects them now, but I think they'll come back again. Ummm, let's see....I sprinkled flax on my food long before it was the healthy thing to do.

There was a time, as a teen, when it would have mortified me to not know the latest trends, and/or to not have tried them, but now I am old enough (no...bad choice of words...experienced enough!) that I couldn't care less what is trendy and what is passe. It's the Purple Hat Syndrome starting to affect me, and I'm pretty tickled about it!

~ If I had my life to live over, I'd pick more dandelions.