Most women are afraid to do anything alone, you know if you aren't coupled up - you are dead right? Well - WRONG!  I find an evening alone to be remarkably therapeutic.  In fact, I try to find an evening alone once or twice a week these days in order to 1) barf alone or 2) go to a curry house I could never get the man to go to.  But try these top five suggestions to get yourself through an evening by yourself if you aren't accustomed to the solitude:

Rent all the movies in the Die Hard series

This is such a no-brainer its scary.  Actually this could also work for a weekend alone.  To me there is no sexier man on the face of the Earth than Bruce Willis (hey, he's never been intercepted 6 times before ok?) and if you watch them in order you get to see him lose his hair.  I just got Live Free or Die Harder on DVD and I'm watching that tonight while I book my tour through Israel in January.  What is so entertaining about these movies you might ask?

Well the first one is a groundbreaker in terms of cinematic crap.  It's filmed exclusively in a building that I know, well from the ground up and hated with a passion.  So to see it blown up again and again was personally satisfying.  The second one is famous for two things: the nude tai chi performed by the villain, and then all the continuity mistakes made in the movie.  My favorite is the one where Bonnie Bedelia beeps Bruce from the air - hey, doesn't she know she can't do that, cell phones make the planes crash!

The Third one was goofy, because it killed off Bonnie and made Bruce a drunk, albeit a sexy as heck drunk.  Samuel L. Jackson went through a phase where he was in any movie made in the 90s.  His character is a bit irritating but Jeremy Irons rocks as the villain.  The fouth one brings Justin Long with it and Bruce just looks hot bald.  I found I have a particular fondness for bald men, like that chef Tom from Top Chef, whoah baby is he cute too?

Write your Mom/Best Friend/Ex that e-mail you've always wanted to write, saying all the stuff you always wanted to say and then hit delete...

This is particularly effective when the ex rears his ugly head because he was the best friend as well.  Did you know he couldn't be bothered to be supportive while I went through chemo?  I had to explain in an e-mail why  that his choice to pursue Tiffany at the expense of helping me get through chemo was really just wrong..he thought a simple "sorry...gotta go" was enough.  Nope.  I reamed him a new one and then deleted it.  Made me feel so much better because I had been such a doormat in our relationship.  He is not fully matured yet, if he was a Banana he'd be green.   The e-mail to my mother is ongoing, like my journal because I miss her.  I miss her telling me things about my Daddy or about when she was a girl and Gammy would take her to the Four Seasons and let her sip wine from her glass (yeah my Gammy got my Mom drunk at an early age - I love that story!!)   But then I complain about being the youngest and only girl and how she was bored by the time she got to me and I was closer to my Nanny etc. etc. It's the perfect time to indulge in your own pity party and no one has to know!! 

**Please note do not hit send by mistake.  I did this once with the ex and well, it was hard to explain because he thought I had anger management issues!!!

Find that Bananas Foster recipe and perfect it...

I follow this sometimes when I have an order to make a wedding cake in a flavor I've never tried before.  I get the recipe out and the ingredients and I make it four or five times so I can get it down and then BAM its in my portfolio.  You can do this with flan or with creme brulee as well.  I find this activity to be a bit cumbersome if you are trying to perfect like Bouef Wellington because honestly, that many renditions of it would be gross you know?

The benefit of this activity too is being able to take the cakes to your neighbors or give it to your security guard and he thinks you aren't such a pain in the butt.

Watch all your Tivo'd programs

I record all the Bones (because Fox stupidly put it opposite Mark Harmon (I mean NCIS) so I never get to see it the first time around.  But I can watch Bones and the closer on DVR and get caught up.  Both programs are very involving and challenging.  My favorite too is when there is a Monk marathon and you get to watch all of them.  Monk never gets old.

Clean out your Closet

This is a start at 5 on Saturday night with a bottle of red and a bottle of white.  Then try everything on and put the items in one of three piles.  The first pile is keeper, these are items you have worn in the past 6 months; second is repair and/or clean pile for the things you got the spaghetti sauce on but were too buzzed from the red wine to remember but you gotta clean it before you wear it again and the third pile is donate and get it out of the way.  I am big on pile #3 because I keep everything and it is so depressing to see jeans in a size 8 - YES, I WAS A SIZE 8.

These are just five suggestions that I think will help you women realize that time is a gift and you can make the best of it.  Sometimes being alone is a good thing!