Planning For the Future

I know, we can’t get the year started without making those good ‘ole New Year’s resolutions. How long do we keep them anyway? For many, the single life is all about discipline and commitment to oneself, so it’s the perfect time to take inventory, reinvent ourselves and get on with life.

What can we do different this time? Does it always have to be a new diet or exercise resolution? Why not make a list of dreams, wishes or financial goals? If you’re working hard at building wealth, what can you add to the plan to give it more muscle? For example: I resolve to stop wasting money on frivolous items that I don’t need and invest it in the future.

Maybe 2008 is the year to focus more on friends and family. Maybe it’s all about balance in our lives. What if the whole world would focus on balance, love and peace~ together? Okay, so I’m getting off of this computer, stop working and starting on that one ~balance~ right now!

Happy New Year, stay strong and I’ll see you in blog land in 2008! Single 101:)

Best Wishes to Single Parents!

Never having been blessed with children of my own, I can’t begin to understand what it feels like during the holidays to be a single parent. Meeting the demands of the regular routine and schedule must be tough enough, let alone the additional stress of shopping, decorating and planning the festivities for Christmas Day.

Attitude, compassion and hope make up a great recipe to survive the holidays as not only a single parent, but a single person. The greatest blessings we have are the people in our lives, our family and friends. Best wishes for a wonderful holiday and I hope this season brings much joy and many reasons to celebrate being single along with those who are special in your life.
Merry Christmas! Single 101:)

Free Drinks in Pubs and Clubs

One of the 101 most popular reasons to celebrate being single includes the advantages of being unattached when you’re partying in pubs and nightclubs. Whether it’s Happy Hour, Ladie’s Night or a free drink for singing karaoke, there are more places you can imagine where the booze is flowing freely.

It’s also amazing to learn how many women have this thing down to a science. Even if they don’t admit to mooching off of their friends and favorite bartender, they’re organized right down to the hors-doeuvres at wine tastings. Just how easy is it? Here’s Miranda’s story:

My girlfriends and I have a weekly calendar, or “party-time schedule”, as we prefer to call it. Monday nights are specifically for ridding our woes of the typical manic Monday at the office. Jordan’s Harbour Pub gets the evening started with free goodies on the buffet and complimentary flute of wine. For just us girls, it has to be pink on Mondays, so the zinfandel is perfect.

Skipping to Wednesdays, our favorite karaoke spot is Mandy’s, where the free cocktails keep flowing for the one who is the most popular singer. If the audience keeps voting for that singer, one can have all the imported beer or wine of their choice!

On Thursday nights we head out to Moe’s Sports Bar, where it’s Ladie’s Night. Ladies get in free and the first drink is on the house. Everyone is always checking out ring fingers, even though that really doesn’t matter anymore. Every other Thursday, they offer free salsa lessons, where the main room cuts loose and gets wild.

Friday’s is a must at Club 19. They have a great deejay and the girls get two free drinks before 10pm, plus no cover charge for ladies. If we’re partying into the weekend, Shannanigan’s downtown offers a “Girl Classic Card”, where ladies can drink free Long Island Tea’s from 9:30pm and on into the night on Saturday nights and also get 20% off anything on the menu. Cheers! . . . Miranda

There are some who contest the whole principle behind Ladie’s Night. If women can receive a free drink, many men believe they should have the same benefit. One man actually filed a lawsuit against several night spots promoting Ladie’s Night. An attorney in Manhattan, he states that an establishment that offers Ladie’s Night enticements, violates the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection under the law. His class action suit accuses several NYC clubs, such as the Copacabana, Sol and the China Club of “invidious discrimination” against men in their policies for admitting patrons.

This is one man’s fight over clubs who, in his words, “discriminate against men”.
It will be interesting to see if he wins his case and no, if you’re wondering, we don’t know if he’s just ugly and can’t get a date.

Happy Holidays and celebrate responsibly! . . . Single 101

Suddenly, We're All French!

Maybe the stockings can be hung by the chimney with care, but sometimes the unmentionables are unwanted articles hanging to dry in the bath. In many a quaint village in Europe, where one tenant building stands inches from the next, they still hang all of the laundry, including the lingerie on the clothesline tied between the downspouts.

I’ll never understand why men love to see us wearing push up bras, garter belts and seamed stockings, but hate where we choose to wash and dry them. If you’re single, living alone and not lost in the jungle of his unmentionables, they can dry on the back of the kitchen chair or tossed over the shower curtain without a care.

Some are too shy to admit it, but we all love shopping at Victoria’s Secret, even if we’re just curious about what other shoppers have inside that pink striped bag. To get you in the spirit of the hustle-bustle, I’d love to share my song about the joys of what a few inches of lace can bring. Here’s something to put under your tree or stuff in a stocking for someone you love and you won’t find this one on iTunes!

Written in 1995 and debuted at the Bluebird Café in Nashville, this is a fun and lighthearted cabaret-styled romp through the secrets tucked inside that little pink-striped bag. A part of the forthcoming stage production and soundtrack for 2010, “Suddenly We’re All French!” will hopefully warm your heart on these wintry days.

 Happy Holidays from Single 101!