Marzie is giving away a *super* cute one-of-a-kind handpainted Porcelain Mug designed by Emila. She’s having a Mariuca Appreciation Contest starting tomorrow July 31st until August 10th and the winner gets to take home the mug!

NOTE TO MARZIE: Much love for being an awesome contributing writer to The Diva Network. P.S. I really want THIS mug.

I know once you see it, you’ll fall in love with it also. It’s too bad that she’s only giving away one.

NOTE TO SELF: Must ask Emila to make one for the Diva also.

And you know, when this happens, I probably wouldn’t even be surprised.

Just look at what you can do nowadays with it - pay your bills, manage your social network, do bank deposits, sms your friends, shop and god knows what other features I still have yet to discover. To think that when the first cell phone came out, it weighed heavier than my overnight purse, extremely ugly and came only in one color *hey after all, accessorizing the cell phone is what made it a hot commodity*. Pretty soon, we won’t have any need for social interaction of the old fashioned kind - person to person.

I am so busy that the first gripe of my friends is that I don’t keep in touch often enough *at least once a year is a godsend to them*.

Being single today is nothing like what it used to be half a decade ago. If I was thrown in the singles pond today *god forbid* my anxiety level probably would probably rise a couple notches just trying to consider all the options - speed dating, online dating, arranged lunch dates, social dance classes …. Then after you have narrowed down the options, you still have to consider what program to join and how much money to spend. With today’s dating scene emphasis of quantity vs. quality, it is sometimes a miracle that you end up with Mr. Right! You just have to keep your fingers crossed and hope that cupid is aiming straight this time around, because really, being single in your 50s doesn’t seem like a fun prospect.

Before I met my husband, I was a big online dating fan - Lavalife, American Singles, Date.com. Okay, so maybe online profiles get a little bit more *juiced up* but really, who has never done that? I for one is guilty *ahem* as charged.