It started as a wish... we wished there was a centerfold calendar out there for us... one that portrayed what we thought was sexiest and most desirable in a man. It ended with a hilarious "Girls' Night" where we flipped through Internet images and celebrity magazines, drank a lot of wine and laughed over each other's choices for the Men Who Can Rock My World 2009 calendar. For most guys, it would be anything with scantily clad, anatomically incorrect runway models (tell me if I'm wrong here). For us girls, it is a little more complicated. While I've certainly been known to drool at the near naked figure of Brad Pitt, "turn-ons" also include guys in jeans, guys in cowboy hats, guys with an amazing smile, and guys holding a baby (when Wayne holds our nephew, Henry, it makes my heart melt and I forget that he once bought me an XLarge Jimmy Buffet sweatshirt for Christmas).
Don't get me wrong, there were plenty of six-pack abs and tight tushes: Tayna's "Mr. September" (The Punisher's, Thomas Jane) and Matthew Fox (LOST survivor and Michelle's "Mr. January"). But there was also Bradley Whitford (my "Mr. November"; AKA, backpack sporting Josh Lyman from West Wing) and Jenny's "Mr. April", Mr. Big - never seen in the buff, but a dream boat just the same. I suspect the attraction has something to do with the house-sized shoe closet he made for Carrie in Sex in the City.
Our REAL calendar heart-throbs (the leading men in our lives) made fun of us, but we didn't care! They only WISH they could get together and scrapbook hot women, drink beer, and gossip about how big "you-know-who's" butt has gotten since he stopped seeing "what's-her-name". And when all is said and done, the men conjured up in our favorite movies and romance novels never seem to materialize in real life. They're all just a twisted myth (much like the characters in all the Nora Jones novels I've read), designed to make us want what we will never have... well, here's to dreaming... bring on "Mr. October".
"Mr. October"
I love mine sister :) And I think Joe was a little jealous until he saw "Mr. May" HAHAHA
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