The Spinster Gets Spun

Not many people read my blog.  I have a total of eight followers.  I think it's because it isn't really about anything.  I have lots of interesting things to say, but not on any single topic.  So what's the most interesting thing going on right now?  My first love; navigating a relationship, money, sex, friends; my first engagement; and planning a wedding.  Sometimes a snore, but not usually when one is doing all this at the age of 43.  So these future blog posts won't be their usual mish-mash of politics, Scrabble tips, grammar rules, and movie reviews.  Instead I want you to know what it's like to feel the first stirrings of real love at 43 that most humans experience at 15.  I want you to know what it's like to sift through hundreds of emailed ads that promise the perfect placemats for your picturesque day when all you really care about at 43 is how you can afford that with no dowry given to you by dead parents.  There's a whole new set of baggage that you did not register for in the form of ex-lovers and ex-wives on the part of your groom-to-be.  This is about how we are doing it, and hopefully some wedding industry marketing professionals out there will read it, and realize that we brides-to-be are not all a bunch of rich 25-year-old trust fund babies obsessed with just the right centerpieces.