So, I've reached 30. I'm here. Well, I'm actually well into 30 and a funny thing happened this year--I met someone special who I thought was normal and nice and it turned into a circus.

Coincidentally, my best girlfriends also seem to find themselves, more often than not, somewhere in a circus ring, herding untamed men, putting out fires, jumping through hoops or hanging from a string.

The fact of the matter is that this is all very tragic yet very, very amusing so I decided to tell you a few tales from behind the doors of our circus train here in Iowa.

My best girlfriends--in my blog I'll refer to them as S, M, and H live in the midwest too. We live in separate cities but our lives became intertwined about 12 years ago when we first met at a dormitory in college...

We've been best friends ever since: picture Sex and the City right in the middle of Iowa!
We are fabulous, sophisticated, funny, sexy, and failures at dating.

I'll keep the men in this blog anonymous.

Here is the latest and greatest on the me and the girls---so you can keep up with all the other stories. Let's start in present day:

S--S lives in a metropolitan area in the,oh, northern midwest where she attends graduate school. She has lived there less than a year. She rarely dates and has an aversion to love or getting close to men. She's extremely intimidating, funny, witty, intelligent, has been described as masculine but I think she's very much a woman--a feminist, in fact. S finally tried online dating and met a man recently who she's now intimate with. We'll get into that more later.

H--H lives in a smaller city with her husband, B. She is pregnant! Although this might sound boring to all you single-and-fab....she's very unusual for being a married, pregnant woman from the midwest. Let me give you an example so you can picture H--her wedding was themed with racoons, she speaks Japanese, and she is naming her very caucasian baby and Arabic name.

M--M lives in a city in Iowa. She works for an art museum and goes to graduate school. She has been single for a few years and recently began to date again. She met a boy in one of her classes that loves her fabulous big boobs. He's skinny, tall, and wears big black glasses. And he LOVES boobs.

K--that's me. I just broke up with a person about one month ago who I really liked, in fact. But it turned out he really liked his ex-wife. I too have begun the decline into online dating and quite frankly it's scaring the poop out of me.