New Super Guest Blogger!

And this time it's A MAN. :) I figured my good, loyal readers could use another perspective on the old blog, and one of my friends graciously agreed to share some of his thoughts/stories on dating/single life. He is hilarious, of course, although nameless at the moment. Enjoy!

I have a lot more to say about the trip, like how I climbed freakin Masada with the group around 10am this morning in 105 degree temperatures. Let me tell you that it wasn't pretty for Megan R. More than once I thought I was going to pass out or throw up, but I made it. I made it. And, it was pretty cool once we got up there. If you don't know the story of Masada, check out my link below to the Wikipedia page.

I have to tell you about the visit to the foreign ministry and Israel's attempts to "brand" itself, too. It's...unbelievably disturbing to me. I hope I can find some of their propaganda videos online to show you.

OK, enough of me and now on to the Super Guest Blog!

-Megan R.

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A few weeks ago, I was asked to be a potential guest blogger, since:

(a) like your regular blogger, I have many amusing stories from the
world of Seattle dating

(b) unlike your regular blogger, I stand up when I go to the bathroom,
which would provide you, dear reader, with the 'other' perspective

Alas, I thought about it and most of my hilarious dating stories are
either only hilarious to me or would involve revealing identifying
characteristics about other relevant parties, which I'm just not going
to do. Many of the stories are of the "small world" variety like, oh,
going to a dinner party and learning a month later that the host once
hooked up with your ex-girlfriend (not the one you were at the dinner
party with).

So until I dredge up some appropriate stories from the recesses of my
memory (hmm, have I blocked them out? :) ), what if instead I share some
self-deprecating experiences on 'living single'. For the non-single, it
will just be amusing. For the single, it might actually be useful...
there should be a website for trading this stuff. Maybe there is. I
haven't looked.

The set-up: So I get home from a great backpacking trip yesterday. The
only trouble is I got a bunch of mostquito bites -- the really-really
Oh-God-just-make-it-stop-itching variety. And some of them are right in
the middle of my back where I can't reach. Now you might be thinking,
"just buy a back-scratcher Single Dude, or just rub up against a
doorframe if you're really lazy." But that's totally counter-productive
-- scratching mosquito bites just makes them itch more. There are a few
cures, my preferred one being aloe (Solarcaine).

So now we have our Single Dude Challenge: Get Solarcaine patted into the
middle of your back. Now getting help from a friend, relative, or
neighbor on this one is clearly out of the question. Sure it's just
mosquito bites, but the whole thing is *way* too close to "hey look at
my rash." I tried various sorts of stretching, throwing, swatting, etc. I'll spare you the details, and jump straight to the...

Step-by-step Brilliant Solution (if I do say so myself):

1. Find a clean washcloth. (Gentlemen: This is possibly the most
difficult part. You might check under the towels you save for when
guests stay with you; that's where I found mine.)

2. Lay it flat and squirt Solarcaine onto it in long rows. Don't be shy.

3. Lay the washcloth aloe-side up on your bed the right distance from
your pillow so that when you lay on your back, it will be just where the
mosquito bites are. (I know, I know, I'm brilliant -- even the most
unobservant guy knows where on the bed the middle of his back will land.
And if you get it wrong, you can always try again.)

4. Lay down and -- voila -- your bodyweight gives all the pressure you
need to apply the aloe and stop the itching.

I guess I have some marketable skills after all. I can also teach you
how to flip over a king-size mattress by yourself without knocking over
any of the stuff on your dresser. Then again, that one is a little more
fun to learn the hard way.

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Megan R. again. I just wanted to say to my New Super Guest Blogger that I'm totally on board with creating a site to swap living single stories! When you fall into the category of Indefinitely Single, you learn a lot of tricks to get by on your own (usually pretty happily and creatively).