Something new, please!

Happy New Year! Day one of 2010...hm.

I need a hiatus from wedding talk. I can feel us all slipping into a vacuum of endless chatter about
who is marrying whom,
whether it's a good idea or they're rushing,
listening to recently married friends gab about their husbands,
how
"fun married life is"
(which we all interpret--correctly--as code for a new, fantastic sex life),

and how we're still not married,

and the confusing jumble of ideas that stirs out of its proper resting place deep in our minds.
(Do we even want to get married right now? What does it matter that we're single?? But why are these women being chosen? Did they do something right that I'm not aware of? Is it simply fate? Did I fail to meet some code, or something? etc etc
etc)

But there's only so long that it is an interesting topic of conversation..then you begin to run in circles and rehash old couples, and then as always your married friends assure you your time is coming (but by now you're not even sure that's a relief, it's more a cumbersome statement--I don't want to get married right now and who needs someone to reassure them that they're "marriage-able" anyhow? Makes me feel like there[s nothing more interesting to occupy my conversation. It's a bit too much, I think.

SO.

Gonna take it easy on the marriage talk from now on. Let's explore some new waters, shall we?