Just got back from a lovely dinner with Mike D and Lisa. They are really great people. I would consider them my one set of married friends that are actually fun to hang around with. I do have quite a few couple friends, but Mike and Lisa are married, but they aren't "parents" in the dreadful boring sense of the word. I don't know if kids are on the horizon or not, but there we were eating/drinking/debating/enjoying ourselves on a Monday night and it was past 10 PM! This really assures me that coupledom and eventually marriage won't descend my life into the quintessential hack-jobed sitcom of a life that I know possibly looms.

"Well, um, actually a pretty nice little Saturday, we're going to go to Home Depot. Yeah, buy some wallpaper, maybe get some flooring, stuff like that. Maybe Bed, Bath, & Beyond, I don't know, I don't know if we'll have enough time."

A lovely dinner at the Cheesecake Factory in celebration for my "liberation" from the Hive. Gossip, spinach dip and cheesecake... good times.

Tonight with Mike and Lisa, dinner with V Friday and tomorrow lunch with Keith and Val... I'm glad that I am keeping in touch with the people that I enjoyed spending time with.