Hit and run!

Music is incredibly important to me. It is very rare that I'm not either listening to music or have some song going round in my head. I love to listen, crank it up in the car and sing my heart out, watch music dvd's or best of all see a band I like at a live gig.

Perhaps it's no surprise then that I often link events or feelings or people to songs. It happens lots. When I was a teenager and at Uni I was a massive fan of the Shiffield rock band Def Leppard. They had a cracking tune that has been going round and round in my head for the last few days. The song goes something like ".....hit and run, hit and run, it's just another hit and run". I can't remember any more of it and it might not be appropriate but there's a reason this song is haunting me. It relates to a brief romance that has just come to an end.

I met what I thought was a lovely lady. Very attractive and bright and she seemed to have a good heart. At first, she was virtually obsessed with me. Every time we met she was very keen to get the next date arranged at the earliest possible point. She'd text me constantly, call whenever possible, come into town to meet me on my lunch break and seemed to spend an unhealthy amount of time viewing my Facebook profile. One wednesday morning a few weeks ago, she texted me to tell me that she'd had a crap night's sleep but it had given her lots of time to think and she had decided that she was head over heels in love with me!

Just four days later, she seem to back off. I'll repeat that, just 4 days later! Excuses for not being able to call or chat on-line, followed a few days later by an email along the lines of ...... "something fundemental has changed, not with us, but it was as if the break up of the family had just hit me and that I just wanted to take the boys and hide up in a cocoon". She called me later and tried to explain but could n't. I offered her space and said I'd keep a low profile, she accepted but invited me round for dinner on saturday night (bizarre!). Of course, it never happened. Three days later, circumstances came to light that made it clear she was a liar and a cheat so I was happy to move on. In five weeks she managed to go from a psycho obsessive stalker to a psychopathic liar and cheat!!

Now I've read John Gray so I understand that women are likes waves but this was ridiculous. The consensus of opinion with the people close to me with whom I've discussed it is that she was unbalanced. Dangerous.

Whatever, I made mistakes. My normal cautionary style went out the window when this woman seemed to be "head over heels in love with me". I allowed myself to be dragged in too far too deep and too quickly but I'll learn from that. On the plus side, I found out early, I found out who the real person was as well which makes moving on so much easier when she really does n't deserve me.

Looks like Katy Perry might be in luck. I may be single when I hit California ;-)

Where's Katy Perry?

... maybe she'll be in California at the end of March when I'm there.

I'll be off over to LA for a conference, which is ok, but what is really great is that I've managed to arrange a business trip to our site in San Diego straight afterwards. That means a business class flight to go with a week in the Anaheim Hilton. Much more important, it means a weekend and couple of extra days with my good friend Ben in SD. He's an avid (but scarily very very fast) cyclist, likes to surf and generally just hang out and have a good time. Can't wait!