Fourteen

Today was a day of impulses for me. Nothing stupid, but it excited me greatly. First of all, it was an oddly warm day for December. The weather can only be described as California weather, in other words..... it was perfect!!  AND Lately, I'd been wanting to experience my city. You know....walk the streets and discover places I'd usually overlook while driving, and meet new and interesting people. I live in the heart of downtown, but I don't know it like I want to. I have this fantastic idea of the girl I want to be in my head....The spry, friendly, city girl with great legs, who knows all the thrift stores and the best place for Sunday brunch. The optimistic, charismatic hippie, who knows the flower shop owner, and all the streets by name.        Yeah right.

It's beyond a fantasy, but it's fun to imagine. It's even more fun to actually be like that girl once in a while. So today, while experiencing slight cabin fever and thinking about how I need to learn my city and that the weather was too perfect to miss, I decided to take my lunch/dinner, which was a pork burrito from Qdoba, to Centennial Park. It was around 530 and most of the gorgeous sunlight was fading into the West, and I knew by the time I had to walk home, it would officially be dark, which is scary downtown. BUT I really wanted to feel like that girl. So I threw on a trusty LBD (Little black dress), the tiniest jacket ever ( no really. this jacket is practically sleeves, in the fashion world, it's known as a shrug), and some t-strap flip flops, and headed out, burrito in hand.   

I enjoyed the porky goodness under a steel umbrella that was shaped like a flower. The lights on the trees glowed, and warmed me inside. Families walked, couples snapped pictures, stalkers stalked; I ate and observed. It got cooler as then sun set, and so I cursed myself for wearing a dress, which I'm currently donning. But then my phone rang, and it was Him..... my B-O-Y. He happened to be just around the corner. And just like that, I had an escort! His arrival was perfectly poetic...... He found me. He gasped when he saw me..... I didn't expect to meet romance at the park tonight, but I did, and it followed me home.