Blue Collar Muse

With 5 kids to look after (soon to be only 4 when #1 son moves out), a small business  to manage, lots of church stuff to do and all important blogging time, The Much Younger Trophy Wife and I don’t get out a lot. Often, in order to enjoy an hour or so of adult conversation (talk that doesn’t include the phrases bedtime, inside voices, homework, curfew, NO!! and a number of other parental perennials) we must schedule it in advance. Being Blackberryless makes this even more difficult in this age of technology!

When I first saw Katherine’s post about the NiT meetup at The Flying Saucer, I thought to myself, “I’d like to go to that and tell Brittney ‘Thanks!’” When I mentioned it to The Much Younger Trophy Wife she thought it sounded like fun and a date was born. After all, I figured if it turned out to be a bust after delivering my message to her Brittney-ness, I could just leave.

Boy, was I wrong!

There was no way I was going to leave after I got there! To say it was fun and enjoyable would be an understatement! All I can say is NiT bloggers, commentors and lurkers ROCK!

Not only did I get to tell Brittney ‘Thanks’, I got to meet a host of you that I only knew from words on a post. Who knew that Brittney is MUCH cuter in person than she is in the pics at her blog? Who knew that I had already spent some time getting to know Katherine by reading her blog before I even knew she was THE Katherine Coble? Who knew that I would already know Kerry from almost 15 years ago at Belmont Church and then he’d pop back up like this? Who knew that Aunt B would be so much FUN and not the stodgy liberal I may or may not have stereotypically mentally pictured her as? Who knew that you could get an indepth education on most of the countries of Europe from a 40 something curly headed misfit in a downtown Nashville eatery? Who knew that Chip and I would not, in fact, be the only males there? Who knew that Chip’s description of Jag as “a happily married and beautiful woman” would be almost perfect - he forgot to mention delightful conversationalist! Who knew that ACK would be so quiet? Who knew that Megan would be as gracious and lovely in person as she is witty in print? And who knew that Ivy, far from being ‘Bad, Bad and Bitchy’, would be delightful fun and bloggerette extraordinaire - I’m pretty sure I left before the alchohol kicked in and the cuddliness began! Who knew there’d be so many others there I didn’t get to meet even though I wanted to? And who knew I’d be sorry to see the little hand was past ‘9′ and speeding towards ‘10′ meaning it was time to head home (as an old guy with a Much Younger Trophy Wife I turn into Fred Thompson at 9:30)?

The Much Younger Trophy Wife and I flew home from the Saucer on the memories of a great time and are looking forward to the next installment …

Thanks Kat and everyone else …

Blue Collar Muse

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