This is Lou's Life

I experienced a few firsts this Christmas, which got me thinking that I have an amazing family to have not experienced these before. This year was the first time since I left home at 17, that I didn't travel down home on Christmas Eve for Christmas at my folks house, as my sister hosted the family lunch at hers, which was a lovely change. Although this did change a lot of the routine. The usual is, well last 11 years, I've travelled from Perth to my folks place on Christmas Eve with half a million other people travelling south, to spend the evening catching up, cooking and taking my Grandma to midnight mass (10.30pm really at our local church), before champagne breakfast on Christmas morning, family lunch, dinner with close family friends, and my eldest sister and I escaping as soon as night falls to check out Christmas lights in Bunbury. This has been the norm for years and I like it! So this year with it at my sisters house, meant sleeping at my own place, by myse

As you may remember, Chris was my back up date from a couple of weeks ago and dinner was definitely fun! We went to Steves in Nedlands, ate good food and drank nice wine. Although a couple of kinda strange things happened on this date, one being that another guy at the bar tried to sit down with me when Chris was getting the drinks and the other I didn't think anything of until a few days later. Chris was funny, charming, albeit short, but all round nice, but after the first bottle of wine and the food was finished, I was ready to go home. Well not Chris... He was geared up for a big night.  He went and got another bottle of wine, which I only had one glass of as I was driving.  But hey maybe he was nervous or hadn't had a night out in a while, either way I hoped for an excuse for his thirst.  I continued on with the date and thankfully the bar closed at 10.30pm, which was my out to go home. We continued to exchange texts the following few days, which was nice, other than the f

Things reached a whole new level with my dating the other day... And it wasn't a high level that's for sure!!  I've recently gone back on oasis because I do genuinely want to meet someone and dirty tinder isn't the place for it, ok ok I've known this for a while, but I'm lazy.  So I got my oasis on and have found a few people to meet, which kind of renews my hope in finding love.  First there was James - an entrepreneur, who had a farm in the wheatbelt, lots of positives in my eyes, especially given I grew up on a farm! We had made plans for drinks Thursday night that got pushed back to Sunday as he had to work late, so tentative plans for a casual afternoon drink were made.  Second there was Jamie - a tradie, who wanted to meet new people and see what happens like me. We'd also made plans for Sunday, but they were solid, a date booked for 2pm at the Como. Hmm I hate the Como, but thought maybe they've renovated and it was better (totally wrong there it&