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!)