New Year, New Diary

The holidays always make me think of Bridget Jones's Diary. Perhaps because her story starts during the holiday season with that infamous turkey curry buffet. Perhaps it's because with each passing year, the holidays continue to remind me of just how single I still am. (I've been enamored of Bridget for the past 15 years or so.)  And with Bridget being the ultimate singleton, I suppose I feel a certain kinship with her right around now. I've even gone so far as to find the original newspaper columns that started it all, and re-read her holiday mis-adventures through the years.

And so, I again found myself this year googling one of my favorite heroines to see what this new year brought for her. I was pleased to discover that the on again, off again third Bridget Jones book/movie is definitely a go (possibly for this coming year)! I then went a sorted by videos, and came across this little gem. Now I realize that being the opening credits of the first movie, I've seen this segment a zillion times. But you know how sometimes it takes until the zillionth and one time to notice something? Well, that was me when I noticed that the show Bridget it watching on the telly is none other than Frasier. And that's when it hit me. I'd turned into Bridget!

I discovered Bridget Jones back in my early twenties when mid-thirty seemed quite a distance off. And although I could relate to her, and enjoyed her adventures and misadventures, I was positive that I'd have my stuff way more together than Bridget did by the time I was her age. And here I am. At the ripe old age of 36. But I actually feel like my life is resembling Bridget's more and more, rather than less and less. Even to the point of spending my evenings alone (albeit with two cats) with a cheap bottle of wine and Netflix. (well something had to get updated after 15 years!)

Ah, Netflix! That wonderful, incredible, bane of my existence! The movies! The tv shows from my youth! The tv shows I was too young to really get into when they were actually on! And even recent shows! All there, for my instant viewing pleasure! With a continuous playback, so once one episode finishes, the next one starts in just 14 seconds! I had gotten hooked on Frasier a while a go. Being 11 seasons long, it took several months to get through it all. So the other night, I took a break from Frasier and that was when I found the clip from Bridget Jones and the parallel to my life, and thus the irony of it all just sort of hit me a bit hard.

So at that moment I decided something had to change. And I thought to myself, "What would Bridget Jones do?" Well, she'd write it all down, of course! "New year, new diary" and all that. So, here it is, or will be, in all it's gory details. Keep reading! It should hopefully will be quite interesting. As the end of 2012 has been very eventful, (more on this later) considering the past several years of my life, 2013 promises to be the start a really great chapter in my life. Singleton, or not.