This post is one that I wrote for Leading Associates in February 2009. I’m proud of the posts I wrote for LA, and I wanted to include them here at Trina Left Iowa. Note: this dating venture was an experiment during a time when Irish Boyfriend and I weren’t together.

Right now I am in this fabulous life stage: I’m educated, single, emancipated from my parents, employed, full of life, cute (I have to give myself some credit), and blessed with a derriere that rivals JLO and Kim Kardashian (I’m learning to embrace rather than hate it). This is the time when I am supposed to be dating these great guys and going out for cosmopolitans with my fabulous girlfriends. Instead, I find myself going through the same routines and doing unglamorous things like drinking wine alone and watching the BBC Pride and Prejudice miniseries (I nearly tackled the delivery guy when it arrived from Amazon). Where do the cute boys and dates come in?