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New Beginnings
I took the plunge and signed up for EHarmony tonight. My friend Elizabeth has been telling me to do it for over a year at least….and I’ve recently met so many couples that met their significant other online. Then this morning I heard on the radio that 19% of all couples married in 2007 met their spouse online (whether it be chat rooms, facebook, myspace, blogging, dating sites, etc.). I spent all the time putting together my profile that I’m too tired to look at my matches right now so I’ll do it tomorrow. May be just as well though, because it’ll give them a chance to contact me first haha. Well, wish me luck. Maybe my search will end soon.
Add comment January 21, 2009
Happy New Year!
I’ve decided that 2009 is going to be awesome. 2008 was pretty good for me too—I got my dream job and moved to a new city and met a lot of cool people. Still, 2009 will be even better.
Resolutions
1. Start a real, committed relationship. Not this “friendlationship” crap that I’m used to.
2. Read more—2 books a month.
3. Learn French.
4. Get six-pack abs. They’re fairly toned now, but not that good.
5. Lose 15 pounds — I want to be the weight that it actually says on my driver’s license.
Ok, so it’s the same weight I was when I applied for my permit at 15, but still, that’s not unrealistic!
6. Stick to my budget so I can save up enough for a trip to Europe in 2010.
7. Start sending my relatives birthday cards. I feel so guilty because they always remember mine and I don’t send them cards!
8. Finish painting the trim in my apartment.
9. Buy a keyboard and get back into playing…I used to be pretty good at the piano until college came along and killed my spare time.
10. Read through the Bible and spend time with God every day.
And now, just because I’m in a really good mood, and I like lists, I’ve come up with a list of some of my favorite things.
* My freshly shaven legs
* Long hot showers and baths
* My new fuschia peacoat
* F.R.I.E.N.D.S. marathons
* Romantic comedies
* My new iPod
* Flirting with cute boys
* Peppermint coffee
* Meeting interesting new people
* Going out to eat
* Settling down in the corner of a cafe with a latte and a good book
* People watching
* Finding the perfect outfit—something that is a bargain and makes me look hot
* High heels
* Makeup, because it can be transformational
* Good hair days
* Swing dancing
* A delicately fruity glass of wine
* Amaretto stone sours
* Watching live bands
* Making something beautiful with my hands
* Crunching through autumn leaves
* Snow days
* Getting complimented by random strangers
* Tiramisu
* Traveling somewhere new
* Facebook
* Jean days at work
2 comments January 1, 2009
Quandry
A guy gave me his number tonight. This is a guy that is absolutely beautiful and I’ve been flirting with for a while now, and I would love to go out with. You’d think I’d be psyched, right? So why am I not wanting to dial those digits?
I have a love-hate relationship with the early stages of dating. It’s so exciting, which I love, but it’s also SO much work and nerve-racking.
7 comments December 30, 2008
Pros and cons of being single
Pros
1. You don’t have to check in on a daily basis with anyone.
2. If you come home at the end of the day and take out your contacts, put on your ratty old pajamas and glasses and camp in front of The Princess Bride with Lean Cuisine and a bottle of riesling, no one will ever know.
3. You can flirt as much as you want with as many cute boys as you want. For me, this is a major perk.
4. All your money is yours.
5. Sole control of the TV remote.
6. No one cares that I painted my kitchen pink.
7. No one leaves the toilet seat up.
8. Everything in my apartment is the way that I left it.
9. Relationships with girlfriends are stronger, because you have more time for them and have to rely on them more.
Cons
1. No one cares if you check in with them on a daily basis.
2. When you walk through the door and say, “honey, I’m home,” you’re talking to your dog, because no one else is there.
3. Very rarely does anything actually occur from all the flirting.
4. Winter nights are a lot colder without another body keeping the bed warm.
5. When there’s a mouse to be caught, I’m the one that has to do it.
6. There’s no one else to stay home and wait for the cable guy.
7. “Date” occasions—i.e. office parties, weddings, and other miscellaneous events, bring a surge of panic that is followed by dread until I am able to convince some accomodating soul to escort me. This is followed by embarssing questions about the status of our relationship from friends, family, and colleagues. I then get the same disappointed face when I tell them that he’s not my boyfriend.
8. You get constantly asked about your love life, and have to hear the same old “encouraging” cliches over and over again. These include, but are not limited to, “It’ll happen when you least expect it,” “You’ve got to put yourself out there,” “It’ll happen when the time is right,” and “The right guy is out there somewhere, he’s just busy working on something else right now.” The people who say them mean well, but it’s not encouraging, because I’ve been hearing them for years and so far, nothing.
9. You’re expected to keep accomplishing great things. My friends that are getting married and having babies are consumed with that, and it is wonderful. If you’re single though, you’re assumed to have all this extra time on your hands so you’d better always be accomplishing something new.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, my Lean Cusine is done and the reisling is ready to pour.
Add comment December 29, 2008
Hello world!
I’m going to try my hand at this blogging thing. I enjoy writing and find myself making observations about my everyday life, and that is what I intend to write about. Please feel free to leave me a comment!
Add comment December 23, 2008
