Prince Charming, Sugar Daddy, Mr. Right Now – Either way, I’m SO EXCITED for tonight! Below is the e-mail I just got telling me the Dos and Don’ts of tonight. HA! Stories Monday!

Saturday night my family and I were in Philly to see a Wings game; the profession La Crosse team. The game was great but getting to the game was an adventure. We were looking for parking lot “H”. Guess what? No “H” on any of the signs. I’m not your typical guy; I’ll ask for directions when I’m lost…so I did and the guy said it was the next entrance which said “C”. This can’t be right so I continued down the block until I ran out of Wachovia Center and started driving under some dark underpass with signs leading to other highways. I found an opening in the road to make a right and headed back toward the Wachovia Center. Then the party began when I hit an intersection and something didn’t look right. All of a sudden on come the lights from a police car, he hits his horn and I’m thrilled to see him. This guy will help me get to the game and parking lot “H”. With that, he pulls up next to me and rolls down his window and the belittling begins. This guy ripped me a new one! Quizing  me on why I was there and how wrong I was for being there. I kept trying to ask for his help and he kept grilling about why I was at this intersection with two young boys in my car. By the way, it was one young boy…my son Sean and the other “boy” was my wife Michele. The grilling continued and he wouldn’t let me move on until I answered every scenario he created for me. It reminded me of being called to the front of the class and doing a math problem on the board with no idea what I was doing. After five minutes he let me go, but wouldn’t tell me where parking lot “H” was. Guess what, there is no sign for parking lot “H”…it’s in the lot!

How can you NOT laugh when someone else laughs... Especially with this giggle??

Next to this woman! A woman attending art classes at the “Metropolitan Museum of Art,” lost her balance and crashed into a Picasso, tearing it! Oops! Who hasn’t ever lost their balance, though? All I can say is “Thank God it wasn’t me!”

By the way, does anyone even see the tear in this picture? I sure don’t!

Thank you to everyone that came out for “The View with a Scranton Attitude” at the Scranton Cultural Center on Friday.  It was a fun girls night out, with supportive hubbies/boyfriends in tow!    I have to profusely thank my husband, Ethan, for being a VERY good sport; things got personal!  At one point, I revealed that my biggest pet peeve is the exhausted (read: annoyed!) sigh your spouse makes…”uuuuuuh”; but it’s still better than being “turned down”  by snoring! 

I was going to send the clipping of The Times-Tribune review to my mom who was unable to attend, until I noticed they printed how I “finally finished writing [my] wedding thank you notes – after eight months”!!  Which is true, but my mom thinks they were mailed out 3 months ago!  Oh well, once my secret is exposed to  my mom by a finger-pointing relative (“…she FINALLLLY sent them!”), then I’ll be safe to send the article

Thank you to the amazing women of “The View with a Scranton Attitude”: 
Patrice Wilding of The Times-Tribune (intelligent AND beautiful!);
Evie Rafalko McNulty, Lack. Co. recorder of deeds (VERY funny lady!);
Laurie LaMaster of WNEP-TV (wonderfully embracing!);
Brenda Bistocchi of Bistocchi’s Restaurant (a very good time – check out her bathing suit pic on Google map!); 
Laurie Cadden, Moderator (simply sunshine, who’s smile lights up the room!)

  And thank you for everyone’s support at the show, and in spirit!  Stay tuned for the guys version in May!

     As a guy who once tended bar, part time, for the better part of a decade, I’ve seen a lot of people that were on first dates. You can almost always spot a couple on a first date: they sit differently, they talk differently, they smile turn and touch differently, it’s actually kind of interesting how we act so differently in the face of a new suitor. Sometimes, of you pay close attention you can see a few good ideas of just what you really should do on a first date… but usually , you don’t even have to try to see great examples of what not to do, ever!

    So I have compiled a short list of the things that you should do on a first date (the “no-brainer-list”): be clean, slightly over-dressed, polite, on time and above all else, listen to what the person you are out with is saying…

    Now for the Don’t-Ever-Do-This-On-A-First-Date List: *Don’t show up too early or too late *Don’t wear a tux but don’t show up dressed like a janitor (or like you’re fresh from the field) *Don’t stink (deodorant, cologne, Axe body spray, etc. all work) *Always take a first date to a place that’s a balance between Taco Bell and the window seats at the Oak Room *Don’t act like an arrogant ass but don’t be a needy wuss *And if you forget everything else, remember this… No matter how nervous you think you are, don’t for any reason get drunk before, or during your first encounter… if you must waste some brain cells, reserve that pleasure for after you’ve parted company *Lastly, if the person you’ve dated doesn’t “like you in that way”  by no means insult them in an effort to save you ego, remember if they don’t want to see you again they actually may be doing you a big favor!

     In short, use a very honest and logical sense of “balance” in the choosing, planning, and execution of a first date. Cleanliness, manners, and common sense go an awful long way toward making a really good first date impression, and yet it is a shock just how many people don’t opt for those obvious choices.

Wishing harm on them? WOW! Ha. Tell me what you think of this… It’s called ”Pray For You” from Jaron and the Long Road to Love (Yes, the same Jaron from Evan and Jaron who sang “Crazy for this Girl”).