My Twin has been trying to get me flying with her ever since she got her private pilots liscense, so for about a month now. It’s not that I didn’t want to fly with her it’s just that our schedules kept conflicting.  Either I was busy or it didn’t work for her, both of us have tons of stuff happening all the time.

Yesterday it finally worked out for both of us.

We drove out to the airstrip, signed out a plane, then she did a great little walk around to make sure that everything was A-okay. 

Jumping in the plane we straped ourselves in, then I recieved a lovely little intro to the plane and some usefull saftey percautions to use if we were to find ourselves spiraling to the ground nose first in the flame engulfed pile of metal. 

It was exactly what I wanted to hear my first time flying with the newbie pilot. “Just in case we’re about to crash, do this.  If for any reason we have CRASHED INTO THE GROUND and I am unable to help you (read: In case I am dead or unconcious) simply do this and this.”  She said with a big confident smile as she taxied down the runway.

Turning the plane around at the end of the runway she made her calls to control and started to speed up. “(Place we live) south this is Echo gulf papa ready for take off on runway 108″ 

“Echo gulf papa this is (place we live) south you are clear for take off on runway 108″

And with that the wheels left the pavement and we were on our way. No turning back now.

The flight was fabulous.  Twin did a few circuits, and a couple of touch and goes where in she pertends to land but as soon as the wheels touch the runway she lifts off again.

Near the end of the flight Twin flew up higher and showed me a stall. A STALL.  That’s where, you guessed it, she purposely stalls the engine in the air so she can learn how to undo it. Twin warned me not to grab on to anything, especially not the controls, and said it would feel a little weird. “Ya Ya” I thought, “How bad can it be”

Well she cuts the engine off and were sort of hovering for a second or two, then she takes the controls and pulls up.  The nose of the plane lifts then suddenly drops straight down.  I am almost certain that at that moment my stomach was in my throat.  My arms reached out automatically to grab something, anything, but the only thing available were the controls and I valued my life to much to grab those.

Meanwhile Twin clamly reaches out pushes in the throttle and expertly pulls out of the stall.

I push my stomach back were it belongs, and start to laugh.  I LOVED it.  What an awesome feeling.

Twin says next time she’ll show me a power-on stall.  I have no idea what that is, but I’m looking forward to it.

All-in-all it was an awesome flight.  Twin is a great pilot. Come to think of it, Twin is an awesome everything.

So here’s the deal.

As odd or as great as it may seem to some (depending on your viewpoint), I have never actually dated.   My mom always bugs me about it, she’s sure I’ll be a spinster forever.  My twin thinks its great. Her reasoning being that if I never date, I’ll never marry and so I’ll never leave. (She’s never dated either. I’m begining to think she may have something to do with my lack in the dating arena!)

All of my other sisters and brother are either married or in a relationship, so they’re probably sitting on the “odd” side of the fence. 

Anyways, about a week and a half ago a co-worker of the my twin asked her if I’d be interested in going out with her nephew.  The co-worker thought that our personalities would complement each other.

Well, Twin asked me.  At first I didn’t know how to respond. Should I be flattered?  The guy doesn’t even know me,  it’s not like he choose to ask me out because he liked me. So no, I wasn’t flattered as such.

How about worried? Who is this guy? Is he a geek, jock, intellect, player, funny, boring, shy, out-going, young, old, short, tall, skinny, fat?  For all I know he could he an escaped mental convict in search of new prey. 

It’s a good thing I know Twins co-worker, she’s trust worthy, she won’t set me up with some one crazy.  (Though she did say our personalities match? ??  With that kind of comparison he’d have to be crazy! )

To make a long story short, I accepted.

My question to all my millions of readers is this:  What are your thoughts on blind dating?Yes? No? Maybe so?

So, on a bit of a housekeeping note.  I have added a “page” to the blog.

If you look to your right you will see the catagory called, (oddly enough) pages!  If you shift your gaze a little south you’ll find the heading “Cakes”. 

This page will cronicle my odyssey into the world of cake decorating and pasty arts.

Take a look.