You know when you’re lying in bed, trying to sleep and your mind starts to wander and you think of all these crazy things?  Last night for example, my thoughts went a little like this:  I’m so tired, I’m glad Harper is asleep in her crib, did I brush my teeth, what color was my underwear today, ugh MM is snoring, what the fuck are the cats doing, what would I look with red hair, Intervention makes me cry…and so forth.  But then, out of nowhere, I thought about an acquaintance of mine, SP, and how she’s now in a relationship with this guy that she met at bar about a year and a half ago.  And then I started thinking that I should write a post about this and it could easily be tied to Date By Numbers’ Bold Moves October, and why the hell didn’t I think about this in October?  Better late than never, right?

Cheshire, Cheshire’s boyfriend, SP and I met up at a bar for some Thursday night drinks one evening.  The place was pretty dead as it was a weeknight and the evenings were getting chillier by the day.  As we’re sitting at our bar table, I spot this guy approaching us.  He’s got a box in his hands.  He introduces himself, tells us about Movember and asks us to make a donation.  He seemed nice, so we all dug some change out of our pockets and made a donation.  He then says to SP, “While I am participating in Movember, my coming over here to ask for a donation was really a ploy to talk to you.”  SP looked stunned.  Cheshire and I broke out into HUGE grins, because, this guy had some balls!  (Literally and figuratively.)  To come up to a table that is being occupied by three women and a dude is quite literally, gutsy.  He asks if he can buy SP a drink, she says “sure” and at that point Cheshire, her boyfriend and I decide to walk away. 

A year and a half later, SP and the guy are in a serious relationship.  And that never would have happened had he not made a bold move and approached our table.  He put himself out there.  He approached a table that was occupied by not only girls, but by another guy as well.  He had no idea how receptive we’d be to him to coming up to us, asking for a donation, and then striking up a conversation with this girl he’d noticed.  He went for it.  And he succeeded.  And that my friends, is awesome.

So, take DBN’s advice, and make some bold moves.  Not only in October, but whenever you feel like it!  Grab life by the horns, carpe the hell out the diem, and so forth and so on.  Make those moves.  Go after what you want.  You just never know where you’ll end up.