First one is over

So… I went for coffee with someone from the Internet
Dealbreakers: smoker (trying to quit), no college degree, not exactly a stable job. Lives with a friend (in the friend’s condo). Hasn’t worked since December (injury, then got a staph infection…), and I think I saw a diabetic bracelet.
Pros: nice guy, lives in my area, contacted [...]

Observations: online dating

Some more observations.
I am just not as trusting as I thought I was. I get these winks on Match.com, and I just don’t believe that people are for real. Really not for real. I wish that I could find out if photos have been posted elsewhere on the web; sort of a search engine in [...]

Call the anxiety police…

Should I be upset that a user named “likebiggals” viewed my profile?
Should I be happy that he didn’t wink?
Should I be worried that I’m too fat, even for “likebiggals”?
Stop the madness.

The online dating profile I’d like to post…

About me…
I’m a middle-aged woman who spent 30 years putting others ahead of myself, and my body shows it. Just call me neglected. I really can’t say what I’m looking for in a man because I would have to define it in terms of the things that I hate about my soon-to-be-ex husband, and that [...]

Is this the new prank?

Favorite Saturday morning activity: perusing match.com…
newest wink to me from a 50-year old man in California. A widower (awwww). With the most beautiful photo I have ever seen (seriously – if this was really a person he would have been snapped up at his late wife’s funeral. Not even kidding)

Reasons I think this individual is [...]

I read it in the personals…

Just a few more nuggets from my daily perusal of the mate catalog – oops, I mean personals…
“looking to meat some one to have a nice time with”
“I love to travel and I have been considering the idea of having someone that could join me in my shorts but also in my longest journey”
Seriously.

Keeping score

First – sorry that I’ve been MIA for the last week or so. I apologize to my 3 devoted readers…
As I mentioned last week, my mother passed away on May 6 after a lengthy illness. I was thinking this morning about my mom and how devastated she was after my father died 31 [...]

Mother’s Day

A week or so ago my older daughter noted that was some kind of cruel joke that my first Mother’s Day as a separated person also fell on Mr. Ex’s 52nd birthday.
could it be worse?
Uh huh. My mother passed away early Wednesday morning after a battle with lung cancer. We were not unprepared, but you’re [...]

Happy birthday

So…what do you do when it’s the ex’s birthday? Or, in my case, the STBXH’s birthday? Ignore it? Decide that celebrating his birthday is kind of like celebrating Pearl Harbor Day?
In my case I decided to send him a card. Take the high road, as it were. That was the problem.
I went to Target and [...]

Online shopping

Sorry… I mean online dating.
I think I see a problem with online dating. it’s the same as online shopping, in that you seem to have unlimited options. And it’s so easy to find choices…
The problem is that it’s hard to make a decision because you’re just not sure that something better might be just a [...]