Douchy Dude's 2nd email...

Remember late night cookie monster? Heeeeee's back! Read on for email #2. I let the 1st dumbass email slide, but I just couldn't resist responding to his futile 2nd attempt! Heres the convo word for word:

he said December 04
Hello. Do you believe in life after love? Sorry, it was the first thing that came to mind. The other thing that comes to mind is chocolate chip cookies. You say you can cook. I've got a full glass of milk over here and no cookies. It is absolutely killing me. Ask yourself; what can you do for me about this predicament?

he said 10 hours ago
I noticed that you like ugly cute dogs. Do you like ugly cute men? I've never given it much thought, but people really do like pugs. Maybe if I got plastic surgery I could get a pug nose. Would you be more into me if I did that. Maybe I could do it myself. Full of ideas tonight.

you said Just Now
RE: Subject
My liking of ugly cute things stops at dogs, although at times, the words dogs and men can be somewhat interchangeable I suppose. I’m also not a huge fan of self-inflicted surgery, prob better to leave that to the professionals, wouldn’t you say? Speaking of professionals, with your tendency towards self mutilation-you might want to go see one. Take care of yourself, Mr. Beaverton!

Lesson learned: Wack jobs need not apply-especially those who mention surgery, knives, mutilation etc...

P.S- Date #4 this afternoon, keep you posted, hopefully this one can keep his wacko thoughts in check! If not, at least it makes for good reading : )

Stupid Email #2

"Hello. Do you believe in life after love? Sorry, it was the first thing that came to mind. The other thing that comes to mind is chocolate chip cookies. You say you can cook. I've got a full glass of milk over here and no cookies. It is absolutely killing me. Ask yourself; what can you do for me about this predicament?"

This particular idiodic email was recieved at 2am on a Fri night.

Lesson Learned: Beware of late night losers. Replace milk with tequila and that sounds about right. This guy doesn't need a girlfriend, he needs a sponser!

Friday morning note…

I am going to post my latest email I received (verbatim.) I swear I did not alter this email whatsoever-I like when the boys just go ahead and write my blog for me, makes my life easier! So the following is just a taste of the men to choose from. I have to say, I’m not sure whether to completely disregard this obviously mass produced email or write back due to being both pretty clever as well as saying what I’m sure most guys (and girls really feel.) Let me know what you think… (P.S) I have yet to see his pics due to reading this on my wk computer (the pics don’t show up and they frown upon internet dating while on the clock) so I thought I’d get opinions before I check this dude out!

"Friday morning note...

Frequenting a dating homepage always seems like frequenting a bar with too many guys. Too many low-quality guys take aim at not-quite-enough high-quality women, and the result is utter failure for everyone concerned. The women's Inboxes get inundated. The men's Inboxes remain empty. The quality guy is drowned out by the clamour of the idiot. Any vaguely attractive woman has so many tongue-lolling introductory e-mails she can't filter through them all.

So even though dating sites favour the women, and though I'm at a biological loss here, so to speak, I will still do my little Bird of Paradise mating dance and try to attract a quality mate.

Now, there's nothing more tedious than some new, unknown guy droning on about how great he is. So I will try to outdo them all and paint myself as some sort of Adonis/ God's-Gift-To-Women. Here goes.

I am: well-read (mostly economics & history, a lot of classics); sincere (people close to me will always know how I feel about something); honest (I can't be bothered to lie; causes too much chaos); sweet (as in, I'm overly cute and have too many Ghibli and Pokemon paraphernalia around my house); athletic (I lift kettlebells all the time); outdoorsy (long hikes and car-camping, or even overnight trips on foot); well-traveled (been to 4 of the 7 ancient wonders of the world; been deported once); socially aware (no longer dump my used motor oil into the Willamette and got myself a compost bin); multi-lingual (can communicate in about four languages); moved to do something meaningful for the world (want to save global finance); family oriented (call the 'rents and the sibs all the time); lucky to have great friends (best in the world, though only a few of them live here); and, comfortable around others (can be socially acceptable and non-threatening, with enough preparation).

Ho pefully, I can: challenge you to be a better person (without me being a bitch about it); make you laugh so hard milk comes out your nose (my sense of humour has been described as dry or witty); make you smile (cheese!); and, bring you romance (um... a bouquet of roses and a six-pack of 211 Steel Reserve?).

I think that's me. Somewhat. Perhaps. Maybe. Who knows?

So if you'd like to get to know me... perhaps by a few e-mails back and forth and then, tentatively, perhaps a coffee or a lunch date or two and moving toward, shock!, an adult beverage in a dank bar ... feel free to write back.

:-)
-g

ps. I normally work 6am to 1pm, hence the early hour of this note. -GCE"

Lesson Learned: Hey, I won’t knock the guy-he was right about most of it. (Except the part of women being able to be so picky.) I know realize that it’s just as exhausting for multiple reasons dating on the internet as in everyday life. I think I’m gonna marry myself like Sue Sylvester did on Glee!

Count down till Jan…

I officially canceled my dating website account. So take that DatingRUs, you have failed me! The account ends in Jan so I feel as though I have exactly 2 months to use the website for some social experimentation. This list I have complied a top 10 list of is how I plan on further researching the fabulous world of online dating…

Top 10 ways to turn a dating website into your own personal research study:

10) Profile pic Mon: Turtleneck, no make-up and big smile. Profile pic Wed: Low cut blouse, sultry eye shadow and coy head tilt. Fri: Count wink differences.

9) Use the headline: “Single girl ready to have fun” and then change to: "looking for the one” Count emails received for each.

8) Change your profile pic to the hottest girl you can find, email any quy who blew you off stating you would like to meet for drinks. Blow them off.

7) Email at least one guy who under normal circumstances you might not have been interested in. (Hey, you never know-Mr. I’m not your type could turn into Mr. Now your typeless.)

6) Put please don’t wink me in profile. See if guys wink.

5) Add I will only date guys who make above $100,000 to profile. She if you get ANY emails.

4) Have 10 pictures on profile, all of cats. Email 20 guys. See if any reply.

3) Pick the hottest guy on the website and wink furiously. See how long before he files an internet restraining order.

2) Note interests as being, Witch Craft, Restraints and Watching Dexter. Any replies?

And the number one way to use a dating website for your own personal research:

1) Profile pic for everyday of the week: Monday: Me and Ex. Tues: Me sporting a thumbs up sign. Wed: Me and Jose (That’s Quervo-not another Ex!) Thurs: Cell phone pic taken by me in the mirror. Finally Fri: Me and beer bong with ex, self taken photo, flipping the bird. Tally up guys interested in each pic. Email them back and inform them they’re super douchee and make John Goseling look like Brad Pitt.

Lesson learned: When all else fails, it’s perfectly fine to use online dating a form of social experimentation. Note to Letterman: It’s all yours!

Greetings and Salutations…

That is seriously what my last online dating email started as. Maybe I am being way to picky, but just starting an email like this makes me queasy. I tried to look past the intro, I really did and some might argue I am looking for things to dislike about these guys but really, could you ever waking up day after day to a man that’s like “Greetings and salutations this fine morning honey!” I mean come on, the greetings is one thing-but once you have already greeted me and then felt the need to salutate me, I have fully lost interest in the contents of your email! Slim pickens I tell you…

The email prior that the guy felt the need to express to me that I “be cute” His email read the following, Hi, I’m illiterate… and “I liked you profile and just wanted to email you and say YOU BE CUTE.” Yeah, well-you be rejected, dorkous.

I am really trying to be less judgmental and more open-minded but I vow not to lower my standards to the point where I’m dating a guy that uses the word salutations and thinks I be cute. I’m officially adding those two to the list of no deal guys. Along with, shirtless profile pic guy, multiple winker guy and ex frat boy beer bong picture guy.

Lesson learned: Whatever you say in the subject line of your email is a pretty good indicator of your future with someone from a dating website. That and the word salutations should never ever be used, with the exception of maybe the subject line of your cover letter and even that’s pushing it!

Maybe I just will make it to 8 dates!

So I may have unwilling signed up for 3 more months of internet dating. How was this done unwillingly you ask? Well, I got an email from PayPal today saying “thank you for your payment for (dating website.) Apparently if you sign-up for three months and don’t cancel, they will just tack on three more months. Sneaky dates R us website, but I still plan on canceling! In the meantime, I might possibly have a second date w/ bowling boy. We hadn’t really spoken much over the last week or so but I got a message from him last night wondering if I wanted to get together over the weekend. I thought I would change things up and actually have a second date, so I agreed.
I don’t really have the details yet but it feels kinda good to anticipate a date w/ someone where 1) I now know what the heck they REALLY look like. (For all those people that are disillusioned into thinking people look like the pictures they post on these websites-they have another thing coming once they actually meet someone in person.) Most people have managed to collect the best 4 or 5 pictures of themselves over the last 10 years (myself included.) Some people aren’t even really the same ones as the picture (thanks a lot www.NoSecondDate girl-I mean guy!)

2) We are not as nervous because of all the 1st date anticipation/pressure. I actually took it upon myself to look up, “what not to say on a first date” on the internet prior to the first meeting. If your curious, it was all pretty logical like (for women), “don’t talk about your desires to have 16 children”, or “how you keep an ex boyfriend voodoo doll under your bed”, and how “you hope he likes the color blue because you’re pretty sure that will be the accent color at your wedding.” For men the advice consisted of: Steer clear of comments regarding bodily fluids and functions, flatulence may be fun to talk about with your buddies but it’s pretty guaranteed women do not find it sexy. Restrict comments about sports, video and computer games, while your would of war craft game might be fun for you to play, the majority of women can care less about your dungeons or your dragons. Lastly, it’s advised that if men see a women hotter then their current date, they steer clear of saying” wow, that is the hottest chick I have ever seen! Women’s summary: keep the crazy inside until at least the 3rd or 4th date! Men’s summary: Don’t treat your date like your frat bro Steve.

I will update you on the first second date! (Interesting, there is not much research on second dates) Guess it’s all about being your own uncrazy, non-crude self!

Lesson Learned: Second dates have the potential for being way more fun then the first, Dates R Us is sneaky and basically charges you for being the loser that can’t find someone it the time frame originally allotted, and the internet isn’t that great for pre-date research!

Fellow Blogger Tribute

From time to time, one has to pay tribute to their fellow dating bloggers: I will do that now my offering you this extremely amusing link: http://nofirstdate.com/
All I have to say is, yeah...that's about right
    oh and come on guys, a lil dignity! lol

Maybe all this blogging has given me bad Karma?

So, I am in my last month of internet dating and I officially might have to change the title of this blog to 3-date update. (I really didn’t choose 8-date update for any logical reason; I just thought it sounded best!) I feel like the longer you are on these websites the less popular you get. I guess that’s understandable really, considering I don’t know how many duplicate winks I get and I think, k-the first wink got you nowhere buddy, do you really think a double wink is gonna do the trick ; ) ; )

I noticed things were taking a turn for the worst when I processed to have a conversation with “P-TheButcher! Now upon reflection, why in the world would I sink so low as to even think about having a convo with a person whose chosen screen name alludes to the fact that he may or may not mutilate living creatures on a daily basis? Crazy or not I decided I need to either raise my standards or stop all this internet dating all together! I mean come on, how many chicks can one score with that kind of screen name? If he is able to get a date alone with him, she can only have two expectations, this guy chops up livestock for a living or she’s not making it to the end of the date, that’s not the kind of date I look forward to. (Damn Dexter marathons may be getting to me!)

So after contemplating changing MY screen name to A-The Annoyed I decided to add skitzo screen names to my list of men to avoid at all costs. I moved on to guy with a much less serial killeresque screen name and have had a few convo’s with him. He seems great; our first phone convo lasted 2 hours. Unfortunately, I am becoming a bit more cynical and less optimistic about potential man dates then I was at the beginning. In the back of my head I am fully aware that all the pre-date fun can potentially lead to a post-date rejection (by either person) so I am cautiously optimistic, I mean three is my lucky number and they say three times a charm. We shall see if third guy sticks around!

Lesson learned: Proceed with caution. (Especially seeing as though there are guys calling themselves P-TheButcher out there!)

Post # 7 I’ve been neglectful to my 8DateUpdate blog followers (all 3 of you ; )

So, I’m on my second of 8 date updates and I feel like I have entirely to far to go. This process has been more exhausting then I anticipated. Not that I am complaining that I get to go out and get to know virtual strangers over beer and putt putt but it really is both time consuming and a little self deprecating. After a no call from my first date I was apprehensive about this whole process but I got an email from my fav online potential date and I thought, what’s one more. Well, one more led to a second no call. What the heck, it’s hard not to take this rejection thing pretty personally.

Second date, we’ll call him Nick, took place at a local beer and pool place and I thought it had gone fairly well. Nick and I had several pleasant phone calls prior and upon meeting him, I really felt a connection to the guy. He was outdoorsy and had a good job, and we seemed like we had a lot in common. After our date I was confident in the call back.

After 4 or 5 days passing, my confidence had taken a major hit. No call, no text, no email of any kind. Now I had a significant dilemma, do I let it go (again) or do I try to initiate some kind of communication since I in fact actually wanted to see this guy again. After about a day of going back in forth, I was all to curious in why I was being rejected so I sent a short text asking what Nick was up to for the weekend? You know the saying, curiosity killed the cat-it didn’t… it just killed the self esteem. No return text, just a short email the next day explaining Nick had recently got out of a 5 year relationship and was not quite ready to start dating again and according to him we were not a “perfect match.” Hey Nick…if you aren’t ready to start dating again, try not joining a DATING website! Anyway, after much over analyze of the situation and some slight self-loathing and even a little insight into my own psyche and wants and needs, I have decided that I will not give up and become a sad, single cat lady. I’m a dog lover anyway and there’s entirely to many other boys out there to let one or two keep me down. So, who knows, but I’m determined not to give up yet : )

Lesson learned: Curiosity killed the cat, but didn’t stop the girl from trying yet again.

Post #6: Maybe this internet dating stuff isn’t half bad!

So, I finally went on my first blind-date. It was actually really fun. We didn’t end up going bowling but we did settle on miniature golf. I was entertained by the fact that we were both equally bad. (Either that or he was pretending to me in an effort to make me feel better.) Either way, I had a good time. It was a little difficult to play (or attempt to play) and get to know each other at the same time so we decided to walk around afterwards. My first impression of him was that he was pretty cute, tall (like I like them) and had a silly personality. The convo went pretty smoothly and I wasn’t able to detect any major red flags, although he was a little heard to read so I wasn’t able to get a good idea of whether or not he was very interested, which makes me a little nervous.

I ended the date early because I was only able to park for an hour and a half without getting a ticket and I thought it was best to leave him wanting a little more for next time. So now I get to be a girl and wait by the phone. That’s why cell phones are great; you don’t have to actually do that! (Can you imagine girls back in the day parking a chair next to the non-cordless phone on the wall waiting for a second date?) Oh, how technology is becoming my friend!

For comparison’s sake, I thought I would summarize date # 1’s pros and cons. (Sorry date #1-thank god this is anonymous or I have a feeling I would definitely not score a date # 2!

Pros:

Good sense of humor

Good looking/Tall

Smart/Self-sufficient

Has a good job

Lots of hobbies/keeps busy

Likes interesting/spicy food

Never married/or has had kids

Cons:

Family is not nearby (could be a pro, depends on how you look at it!)

Little distant

Parents divorced at an early age

He may be unemployed soon due to company going out of business

Lesson learned: When it comes to being an internet dating snob, you shouldn’t knock it till you try it-date #1 set quite the precedence for the next guy!

Post #5: So I have managed to score myself a first date…

After multiple emails from different guys and passing out my # to a few, I have managed to set my first date this weekend with (I will call him Jake-for a little bit of anonymity.) Jake and I spoke on the phone for an hour or so last night to cover a few of the basics. He seemed like a nice enough guy. So far his positives consist of having lots of hobbies and keeping himself busy, we are interested in the same types of TV shows, he’s got a degree/ has good career plans and appears to be intelligent. My cons are that he doesn’t seem like he has a super close relationship with his fam (which I am lucky enough to have ;) They are all out of state. He wasn’t asking me to many questions during our convo (which could have bee a result of my excessive rambling in an effort to avoid a lull in the coversation) but his emails were the same way, and our phone call left me more with a friend type feeling more then anything else. But hey-I haven’t actually even met the guy so who knows! I’m pulling for bowling on our date. It’s a great combo of having an activity to keep ourselves distracted while having the time to get to know each other better. I pretty much suck at bowling so at the very least I will be able to bring the entertainment-everyone likes someone who can laugh at themselves right! Plus, there’s usually beer if it gets super uncomfortable. Most importantly, it’s a very public place-so while bowling balls could be considered a weapon, the chances of actually being murdered are slim to none.

Lesson learned: It takes a TON of wk (and patience) for a girl to get herself a first date, it’s a wonder these guys are single!

Post # 4: Manhunt VS Job Search one and the same…

OK, so it’s been a few weeks and I’m officially get fed up with the internet dating process. First if all, it is exhausting. Much like dating in general! The only other time in my life I felt similar was on a massive job search right after college. Really the two have amazing similarities! Check it out:

Step 1: Prescreen to narrow down jobs/dates.

Step 2: Application process. Dates get an email expressing interest as you hope for a response. Employers get a resume and cover letter.

Step 3: Elimination. Simultaneously you determine if the prospect is still a good fit while comparing that prospect to all the others. Polls of applicants are intermingled and some are kept while others are thrown out of the mixed because of lack of qualifications.

Step 4: Call back. If you are one of the chosen few, you have managed to receive a call asking you to participate in the interview process.

Step 5: Interview. Only after you have completed steps 1-4 you are in the presence of your date/job prospect. At this point, you are extremely nervous and competitive. And why shouldn’t you be really? The process has been lengthy and to fail at this point would feel like a giant waste of time! Questions are asked and answered all the while, the other individual is secretly judging you and determining you potential.

Step 6: Hired. You are now someone’s girlfriend or have obtained employment all the while contemplating… do I even really want this guy/job anymore or do I just not want to go through the process all over again!

Ahhhhhhh…I am seriously tired just writing about it. I know people say- but in the end it’s worth it and this is the only way to find your husband/career. But my goodness does it get tiring! I will prevail but in the meantime, I need a nap! This dating is serious business-and here I thought it was going be all fun and games!

Lesson learned…Dating is a full-time job and not for the faint at heart!

Post #3: You’ve got mail… (4 to be exact!)

I have successfully managed to correspond with four different guys. There is some part of me that gets a little excited at the prospect of “one new mail message” (or four in my case) After all, I pre-screened hundreds of men, I earned the right to enjoy a response for the ones that actually made it to the next round! After a few emails back and forth I noticed a small road block. If there is not a conversation connection, you will know by your third email. If the third email consist of the following-it’s doomed from the start. “Hi, I really like to go camping and playing basketball. Do you like outdoor activities? It was a really nice weekend this weekend. I like to read in my spare time and hang out with friends. Talk to you soon.” While this person may seem nice on the surface, that is exactly the problem. I call this man the surface skimmer. You have barely scratched the surface of each others lives and there is nothing about the conversation that makes you feel motivated to get to know this person. All the while your next prospect shoots you both a very intriguing email that is a perfect combination of thought provoking and witty. In comparison surface skimmer just doesn’t compare. (If you haven’t been able to keep track, that means I’m down to 3!) So, after you new prospect’s captivating third email, your feeling good. He responds to your sometimes hard to understand sarcasm with a little of his own and you’ve manage to develop quite the nice rapport. The next question is, what now? It would be perfectly understandable to meet this charming person who can hold their own right? For some reason I can’t seem to not be nervous at the idea of actually meeting these guys in person-maybe it’s because it’s just the first one? So, I decided I will give him my phone number and we can at least hear one another, I mean you want to make sure his voice doesn’t sound like a Gilbert Gottfried imitation (I’m sorry but in all my dream man fantasies, the parrot from Aladdin has never crossed my mind) or even worse, he has the cackle of the super annoying chick from Friends! AT that moment I had an epiphany. Moving slow has never hurt anyone-on the Internet or otherwise. And if he can’t deal with your three emails, phone calls, and dates rule-that’s OK because there is someone out there who will!

Lesson learned: Dating comes in three’s. If you can’t keep the momentum going until the next step-move on (there’s a reason the saying was developed: “there’s plenty of fish in the sea!”)

Post # 2: Guys without at least the ability to take a somewhat normal profile picture…need not apply! (Is it that hard to do-really?)

After I sorted through each wink, interest and email I was shocked to discover there were only a few guys worth considering in the end. What the heck, I stared out with hundreds of men who have indicated some level of interest in me and I was down to a few? Either I was being EXTREMLY picky or, the guys on this website sucked! I settled on maybe there was some combination of both. So, I took a deep breath and proclaimed to myself I will take it upon myself to send an email to a few guys I found interesting. The hard part was trying not to judge a book by it’s cover, this is virtually impossible since everyone has a picture of themselves on their profile and I couldn’t help but see the picture and think to myself…guy with cell phone, standing in front of what- is that really a toilet behind you??? -pass, guy with his arm around some girl in the picture-pass (granted it could be his sister but still, is it necessary to use THAT pic as your main one?) Guy proudly displaying some sort of version of the I’m a super cool, badass peace sign (thumbs up, cowabunga, etc…) PASS PASS PASS! After those were weeded out (this is starting to feel a lot like work!) I had to review dozen’s of men’s wordy profile content, I get it-you like sports, and very surprisingly reading-after 100’s of the same profile over and over again I started to feel like a hiring supervisor feels when they inevitably get hundreds of wordy repetitive cover letters. After about ten I was like uh huh, blah blah blah. I didn’t like the insensitive route that this was heading, was it so much to ask that I just wanted a profile to stand out from the rest? Do not for a second think I didn’t realize most men probably had similar feelings about my profile. I made a mental note to jazz mine up a little. Once I had ruled out all tmen guilty of being both extremlpy boring and cheesy to the point of no return, you could start to see why I was only down to a couple of potential dates. I figured since it took me all night to find these guys, I might as well take the liberty of shooting the chosen ones a very intriguing and witty email. After I sent a few I crossed my fingers and sincerely hoped I was not about to be rejected by men from a dating website-my self-esteem was seriously on the line here!


Lesson learned: After sorting through many a men’s online pictures and profiles, putting on your beer goggles and heading out to the closest sports bar to snag a date starts seeming like a brilliant plan!

Post #1: When online dating sounds like god’s greatest invention, it’s time to stop drinking!

Here I am, in my mid to late 20’s and about to put myself out there…and by out there I mean where else but the good ole Internet. Under normal circumstances I wouldn’t have even have let Internet dating cross my mind but society has gotten the best of me and these weren’t normal circumstances!


It all started a few weeks ago…

I had just closed on my condo, no small feat I might add. It had been almost 6 months in the making and I was primed and ready to celebrate. In celebration of the 4th of July holiday and maybe just one too many red, white and blueienis, I was in the midst of what I call my “single-girl mantra.” The all too familiar, and constantly repetitive discussion of defending my single status and declaring to bystanders that yes, someday I might have children, and no I had not found “the one” when it was suggested to me in my slightly intoxicated stage that I should sign-up for a well known dating website. In that moment it sounded absolutely fantastic. I mean, how could having thousands of potentially attractive and available men bombarding you with email after email of ego building compliments NOT sounds like a good idea? So, I took my slightly altered state of mind to the closest computer, gave myself a cutesy screen name and it was official, I was now a member of the Internet dating world!

That was yesterday, something that always seems to escape you after your 5th or 6th drink is: things ALWAYS seem like such a good idea when you have a little alcohol boost. The problem is, these websites don’t just let you try these things out for free. Noooo, imagine my astonishment when I realized that not only had I set up an account, a picture, and decidedly admitted that on liked “long walks on the beach” but I had paid for 3 loooooooooong months of Internet torture (I have absolutely no recollection of ANY preliminary account setting up, so OK maybe it was more like 5-6 Bellini’s-don’t judge, I was celebrating after all!) Plus, I have a very strong feeling that I was not the primary account setting upper. Come on, long walks on the beach, who says that anyway???? This information I had unknowing put out there to all of the World Wide Web had warranted me 64 new “winks” winks you say, what the heck is that???? It is unfortunately EXACTLY what it sounds like! A boy thinks your 1 inch by 1 inch internet cell phone shot is super sexy and likes your views on politics and religion, so as a sign of passive aggressive appreciation, he sends you over a lil “wink”. Oh man, I am thinking it’s 1) going to be a VERY long three months and 2) I need to get a new email account A SAP!

So, what exactly am I trying to accomplish here by detailing my online dating experiences(and dating in general) for anyone to observe? Well, I have decided I am going to make the best of it and keep the rest of the world informed Sex and the City style (although, I am not claiming to be half as entertaining as Samantha, or even Miranda for that matter!) I have made the decision that it’s time for a little me time. By that I mean, during the next 3 months I am going to selectively go out with 8 of those so called winkers (or possible wankers but dates end!) I will post a date summary and some updates on these fellows. This will serve a few purposes, not only will I be able to get some feedback on these 8 dates and potentially find someone it actually might just work out with, I will hopefully remain able to live to tell about it (if I don’t have another post within a week or so make sure to call the cops ASAP ; )

So, if you have any interest in the internet dating world or have ever gone on a date yourself, follow along-as it will hopefully be three very interesting months!

Lesson learned: Internet winking is extremely creepy, no scratch that-ANY and ALL winking is extremely creepy!