The Soundtrack To My Life

If you could only see the beast you've made of me.

Profile No-No: Fake Picture

Obviously, don't lure people to your profile with a profile picture of SOMEONE ELSE. I'm pretty sure if Mark Wahlberg wanted to get back in the dating scene, he wouldn't make an account on match.com.



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How I Deal With Stress

It can be difficult, finding a method to relieve the stress that comes with dating and falling in love and being smushed in the ground by men. I've tried a few different things: pulling out my hair, smashing furniture with a sledge hammer, running, yelling really loudly into my pillow, yelling in someone's face, etc. Sometimes, the guy was really special though. Sometimes I just don't want to give up on someone even though I know I should. In those situations there's one thing to do.

I make cupcakes.

(Marshmallow text reads: MAYBE HE IS GAY)

It Never Hurts to Compliment a Girl

What a WONDERFUL way to start the day--opening the following message in my email:

You are soo beautifulll.*

I'm a total pushover. I fall a little bit in love with any/every guy who says I'm beautiful. Are you easy like me when it comes to flattery?


*Side note: I've been watching a lot of Always Sunny in Philadelphia recently so I imagined this guy saying it the Charlie way.

The Soundtrack To My Life

Link Time! Armpits Are Sexy?

I really had no idea that the exposed pit is a turn on for dudes!

Read on!

The Saga of Colorado and California

Does it seem futile to choose between two men who each live over 1,500 miles from me? Yes, I'm glad you noticed that, too. It's like a true or false question. It seems simple enough, choosing the correct answer from two, but the hardest question is the one that only has two answers.

Did you know that the halfway point between Los Angeles, CA and Fort Collins, CO is a town by the name of Elsinore in Utah? Look it up on google. The place is desolate. Desert. Tumbleweeds. Scrub. Dirt. Old gas pumps. Men wearing dirty overalls, chewing on hay stalks (you have to sort of squint to see them). The point between two wonderful men in two vibrant locations is nowhere. Yet nowhere is a mere 8 1/2 hours from the best guy I've met in a long time. I'm not sure what this means but it feels profound.

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The Saga of Colorado and California

Picture this:

A girl lives in Connecticut. The girl meets a guy from California. She likes him. She's not sure how much she likes him. The girl meets a guy in Colorado. She likes him. She's not sure how much she likes him. Who would she choose?


This is the setting of my love life for the last 6 months.

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I Found Myself On the Road to Dullsville

I've been on a few dates with a new lad. He's attractive and tall, friendly and conversational. He's a good guy. He's nice. He's a winner. After seeing him three times, I cant stand him.

Maybe it's the clinging. Maybe he bores me. Maybe he's too pessimistic. He irritates the bejeezus out of me and what was a great first date (albeit I showed up late, late, late) by the third, I knew some wiring between us just wasn't connecting.

I left the last date thinking we would hang out again, more as friends getting to know each other than potential romancers. It's been at least two weeks and I've avoided all of his invitations. I've avoided discussions, too. I guess I'm just not that into him.

Looking back at our first conversations, I remember feeling skeptical about him and how well we would get along. He struck me as too needy and weak but I ignored those feelings, figuring I was being too judgmental. One thing from this dating that I keep learning: trust your feelings. After the third date, I felt pretty strongly that they were just going to get worse. I was on a road to Dullsville.

How long do you need with someone to know him? Is one meeting enough? Is three?

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Usernames Are Forever

Walkingdouche

Don't Give Up

Feeling ineffectual? Afraid this might not be your year... again? Want to give up?

Lines that Don't Work on a Girl

Don't get all sentimental on me now.

Link Time! Dating Terms to Rediscover

Bring back the old lingo!! I'm going to try actively to incorporate the words suitor, dreamboat, and beau when I'm talking about the fellas I like or get involved with. And why did going steady have to drop out of our vocabulary? It's so endearing a term!

Check out the Glamour article link here!


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Lines that Don't Work on a Girl

My friends call me quirky, others call me quite odd.

How Not to Message a Match

This was a message I got from some guy. I think he was being coy?

You should see the map
on the wall behind my bed

I checked out his profile picture. There was what looked like a picture or map behind his head, but I couldn't figure out what it was of. Anyway, he didn't explain the relevance of said map. What intrigue!

Link Time! In the Spirit of the New Year

Ready for a new start? Made your dating resolutions? READY FOR LOVE??! How about a list of things you can do to be more proactive in finding a special someone this year. The link's here!

P.S. I probably won't do any of them.

The Drawbacks of Online Dating

1. You're gonna get harassed by lousy guys. I guess this could happen just walking around the mall, too but it's a lot easier to harass by e-mail and chat than by yelling or whistling or winking or ... you get the point. Actually, this can be a good thing when you're having a day in the dumps and you would take a compliment from anyone.

2. A shit load of blind(ish) dates. If you love blind dates, then... well, what the hell's your problem? Mostly, just be prepared for lots of awkwardness: the awkward silences of just getting to know someone in a constructed setting, the awkwardness of having feelings for a guy who ain't that into you, the mega awkwardness of having to shut a dude down who just doesn't float your boat, the awkwardness of acknowledging outloud and in person that you're on an online dating website both during and after you online dating experience, and so on. Lots of awkward.

3. You may meet a guy on a whim who happens to live somewhere far away. This blows hardcore. Picture this: you've met guy after guy and they're mostly pretty good but nothing special or exciting or fun and then you hang out with a dude from, say, California (and you're a Nor'easter). Surprise! You have a connection with the fella from the west coast. This is luck playing a nasty, heartless trick on you. Luck is a bitch.

Link Time! Happy Marriages!

Here's another article about maintaining a happy, healthy relationship--something I'm quite unknowledgable about, actually. The message is to take care of yourself first. Make sure you feel supported and you're communicating what you want because if not, you won't be able to stay in it forever, right? You have to love yourself before you can love anyone else... oh, have you heard that before?

Check out the link here!

A WHOLE YEAR!

Oh, by the way, it's been a year. A year of (broken) posts about my trials and over-analyzed, minor tribulations! Hooray for me (I think)!

I got into a discussion with a young gentleman the other day about my single-dom. Yeah, it almost sounds like single-doom, which kind of works for me. How could I be single for an entire year, he wondered. Well, I suppose it's an honest question. If anyone has a good answer, let me know. This is what I've got:  Love is hard.

Cheers!

Happy New Year, beautiful people of the world. Good luck in 2011. Make those dreams come true.