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"I have had a strange couple of weeks. For some bizarre reason, my libido (which has been stagnant for a looong while) has suddenly roared to life. I can&amp;#039;t watch a romantic commercial without wanting that guy&amp;#039;s arm around me. I can&amp;#039;t listen to a love song without wanting candlelight and a dim room and a fur rug. I can&amp;#039;t watch Ryan Reynolds in anything without taking a very cold shower. And now it&amp;#039;s spilled over into the subconscious as well. My dreams have been incredibly vivid, to say the least. I mean, WHOA NELLY are they vivid. I&amp;#039;m genuinely afraid to let the kids jump in bed with me at night for fear of what I&amp;#039;m saying in my sleep! It&amp;#039;s not that I haven&amp;#039;t been missing companionship (so to speak...wink, wink, nudge, nudge...), but lately it&amp;#039;s been almost constant. I feel like I woke up with the libido of a middle school boy instead of a middle-aged woman. I think part of it is that I&amp;#039;ve lost a bit more weight, and I&amp;#039;m really starting to feel good about the way I&amp;#039;m looking. I&amp;#039;m not where I want to be just yet (and who ever is, right?), but I&amp;#039;m on the way. And I&amp;#039;m feeling a bit more like I&amp;#039;m living my own life now, instead of a shadow of the life I used to have. I&amp;#039;m sure it&amp;#039;s all part of the process, but I&amp;#039;m seriously feeling unnerved by this, especially since I&amp;#039;m not dating yet. Maybe I just need to hit the gym whenever I&amp;#039;m getting uh....unnerved. I&amp;#039;m going to be the healthiest woman alive and my body will be smokin&amp;#039; hot, whenever I do start dating, right? In the meantime, I&amp;#039;ll stop watching anything with Ryan Reynolds, Viggo Mortensen, Brendan Fraser, or Dwayne &amp;quot;The Rock&amp;quot; Johnson. I&amp;#039;m sure I&amp;#039;ll be adding to that list as the days go by. I may be stuck just watching reruns of The Golden Girls. Did you suddenly find you libido returning from the dead? Did that influence your decision about when to start dating again? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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