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The Story of The Bottle of Wine

I've come up with the most appropriate day to crack open this bottle of wine I have...

February 2nd.

I actually didn't really even realize it was right around the corner until today.  So, I've been staring at this bottle of wine that I bought for someone very specific some time ago... and just a short while ago, I made the decision to go ahead and open it up and drink it.  I found it packed away in this box recently and wasn't sure what I was going to do with it, but I was thinking, why not just drink it?

You know... Living La Vida Loca... Or something?  Cheese the day? (Seize the day, I kept trying to type seize and this autocorrect feature I have on my laptop kept changing it to cheese, so cheese the day it is!)

It actually may not still be good though, because I was informed that wine really should be consumed even within a year of buying it, or maybe two at most.  So, who knows... I might open it, take a sip and just have to pour it down the drain... We'll see.

Anyways, I figure, I bought it all those years ago to give as a gift to this specific person who's birthday falls on February 2nd... But it never happened...

You know though, it's okay.  These things happen, or sometimes don't happen.  Love is... tough.  It's weird.  It's strange.. and it's mysterious.  But, it takes two to tango!  So if the tango never happened... There's not much that can be done about it.  Sometimes tangos don't happen!

*shrugs*

It just happens... You know?

Well anyways, I figure, I'll just kind of... Open it up... and that will be how it goes.

I bought it for her birthday, like WAAAY back in the day... and that day came and went, and now it's later on down the road, and I figure... So, I'll just kind of be like well... Here's to... just enjoying wine no matter the situation.

I guess.  But it's okay, that's how life goes.  And honestly let's say hypothetically like years from now some sort of tango did ever happen... or we were ever just back in one another's lives for one reason or another... Would she really want some old as heck wine that has probably gone bad as a birthday present?  Probably not.

I mean, hey, I can always buy more wine.  So.... as those sayings go... bottoms up... and down the hatch!

It's soo weird, the stuff I've done for that love tango...

The stuff we all do when we've got the hots for someone.  Isn't it funny?  I mean... Here I was buying this bottle of wine thinking I'd wrap it up and give it to her on her birthday.

Ah oh well... Love, right...

Maybe one of these days I'll figure out how it all goes...

For now, I think, I'm just going to play it safe and make friends with people... And just go out and have fun... Love is so serious!  It's so... I don't know... I think I need a break from it all.  Thinking about it... Searching for it.

I guess it's not actually taking a break from love because I don't have love to break from.. but you know, the search for it.  I need that break... Just let it all happen how it happens.

I think I just want to go to my Science After Hours events... Or Comedy Improv Festivals... Or just drink wine with friends.  Or go to parties...

Love is so mysterious...

I'm just going to go about my usual business for the time being.  I don't know.  The one thing I do know is... Some times, there are these few and far between people that just... Capture your attention.  And then you find yourself in a wine store picking out a bottle of wine for them to give as a gift because for some reason you're just completely all gushy just thinking about them.

It's so weird.  It's like... Who are these people that do this to us?!?!?  And how does that happen?

One moment you're going about your business and the next... You're totally like... Gaga over someone.

Right now though, I'm gaga free... I feel like I just need some time to be gaga free and just hang out with people, make friends, do fun events...

Repeat after me, gaga free is the way to be!

Just work... Make music... You know?  Write... drink lots of coffee and tea and what not... Do yoga... etc. etc.

Things are calm in my life right now... So, I think I'm just going to try and enjoy this calm.  I don't know what's up ahead...

But, I'm just kind of trying to enjoy the little things.  Like, watching a good show on Netflix, or sipping a good coffee.  Or like tonight when I stopped at a new place in town that makes tacos and got some tacos to go while I watched Netflix.

Just relaxed, and enjoyed the evening.

And that's my plan for that wine... Just relax and sip a little wine on February 2nd.

My guess is though, the wine has gone bad... But just like there was a time for me and that special someone to have dated, and it went bad... There was a time to drink this wine... And that wine has most likely passed.  I mean, maybe the wine is still good.  I guess I'll find out!

But new relationships happen just like new wines can be bought at the wine store.  Well, okay not exactly like that... it's a lot easier to go buy more wine than to find gushy love... But that's what makes love so much more valuable than a fine wine... Because you can't just go snap it up at the wine store...

It has to happen when it happens and how it happens... and then in the between time, we have the wine to drink and enjoy.