Not much has changed since my last posting a year ago. I'm still working for the same agency although several players have changed in the game. I'm donning a new hat at my little clinic - I am now the site manager (the youngest one in the agency!) and get to pretend I'm making the big bucks and hard decisions. I have a new niece! She was born July 31, 2010, and is already spoiled rotten! I've been working with a personal trainer for the past 3 months, and I'm not as jiggly as I once was. My relationship status is still single. I tried a few online dating sites but have left them all empty virtual handed.
First there was eHarmony. I talked to a few guys back and forth, and actually IMed a guy once. Turns out he wasn't able to hold a conversation, and I wasn't able to get my money back for the 3 month subscription I wasted it on. Next was Plentyoffish.com. This was one a former friend had suggested I try. She's a bit of a slut, so I should have known better that trying anything she suggested, but it was free. I met two guys there I deemed worthy of talking to: Alex who was stationed in Afghanistan, and Marvin who recently moved to the area from Hawaii. I totally developed a crush on Alex until I realized he was 40 and still obsessed with his ex-girlfriend. Marvin took the cake. I actually had hope with Marvin. He showed himself to be funny, relatively normal, intelligent, well-spoken, etc., etc., etc. I actually agreed to go on a date with him, which is a huge step for me.
We had agreed to meet in a place that was central to both of us after work. I had no idea what the specifics were, or if he was actually going to to go through with the date or not. 5:00 rolled around and I still hadn't heard anything from him other than a quick email saying that he'd been running around doing errands and still wanted to meet up at 6:00. From where my work was I knew I had to leave at 5:00 on the dot in order to be on time. All I could do was hope that he would call me en route to tell me where I was actually driving to. As I was driving I was calling all my friends to bash the guy and have them commiserate with me and my infamous luck. I spoke to my best friend Katie (go back to my last blog to be refreshed on the subject of Katie), who invited me to meet up with her and her mother at a restaurant called Cheddars. I agreed that I would meet her if I didn't hear back from the guy. Needless to say that I was fuming when he finally did call me, and almost called the date off. I'm too nice for my own good... He informed me that he wanted to meet at a restaurant called Cheddars...ut oh. To make a long story short, he ended up being 30 minutes late, looked nothing like his picture (in fact he reminded me of Clint Howard), was argumentative, dull, no sense of humor, couldn't carry a conversation, and spent most of the night talking about his ex-wife. To make matters worse, halfway through dinner Katie rounded the corner followed by her mother and introduced herself to him. He commented later on how he must be doing good because he already met a friend. Gag.
Clint Howard
Yesterday I signed up for Match.com. Today I deactivated it. They said in their commercials that 1 in 5 relationships begin with an online dating site, but I still can't bring myself to go that route again. Mainly because I had to pay money to be able to read the emails I was getting through the website. I'm starting to think that the guys on there are either like me and are trying to slowly make that transition back into the dating game, or they're just completely clueless and have no social skills.
That being said, I think I'm going to reactivate my plentyoffish.com account. If I can't have a date, I can have a laugh! For free!
Happy hunting to all my single friends!
