How I got here...

How I got here...

A story about a single twenty-something in the the Midwest

It all started with one of those cliché, yet life changing experiences. College grad, more debt than income earning potential, over-crowded job market, and a measly but stable offer for employment. I packed up my 500 square foot apartment, and every belonging that was shoved into the most random nooks and crannies, then left north-central Kansas for good.

Moving to Wichita was always in my plans, I've loved, no idolized the small city, since as a young child my parents moved us away to a small rural town near the Kansas-Nebraska border. What was an eight year old city girl to do? Make trouble, stir the waters and get the hell out of course.

The time came and I left for college without a look back. After five years in Manhattan, Kan., a couple degrees, and an offer for a post-graduate internship I landed back in Wichita fifteen years later. While expertise and acumen have been gained along with a decent job, a great network and wonderful friends, the one thing that has continued to lack in the last several years is a decent sex life. I don't just mean sex as in mind-blowing intercourse and all of those wonderful dirty things that make us all squirm, but as in romance, love or even just a decent date or two. 

What this has left me with are many entertaining, heartbreaking and sometimes grotesque stories. Seriously grotesque, like toe sucking foreplay. I suppose that works for some women, but more on that in a later post. There's been The Creeper, The Love of my Life, Rebound One, Rebound Two, The Doctor, The Lawyer and too many others to mention. 

Too many of these stories have been told, to too many audiences, for me not to begin chronicling my love life. By day I live as a professional with impeccable presentation, sharp wit and a reputable character. When it comes to dating, the gloves are off. The real me comes out, and at times vulgarity and profanity fly incongruence with charm, humor and romance. Be warned this is not intended as a PG, or PG-13 blog. Honesty, humor and at time comedic inflation will be driving factors in the stories of Sexless in the City.

- Birdie