Day 2: Sign up for a dating site
Eeeek! Omg, so there's a huge part of me that feels like a total loser for posting this risk, but hey, I guess that's part of the process, right?
So, just in case you're reading this and don't know me well, I'll give you a brief background. I am single. And not even like a little single. Like no one has made it past a second date in 3 years kind of single. The kind of single that makes people wonder if you're secretly playing for the other team.
There are several reasons I'm so single.
#1. I am incredibly picky. I put this first because I own that. I know I need to expand my horizons, be less judgmental, blah blah blah. I know! Hence how this risk came about.
#2. My job does nothing to help my dating prospects. While I love working with children, chances are slim that I'll find the love of my life in the children's area at the Building Museum, or at one of our weekly story times.
#3. I hang out at the lesbian bar way too often. I have a special place in my heart for Phase 1 in DC and I have some awesome friends that love to go there. Again, not helping my prospects. I am 99.999% certain the man of my dreams is not shooting pool in DC's oldest lesbian establishment.
Sigh, the list could go on, but I'll spare you. After doing a bit of research about which site to sign up for, I made my decision. Enter, Match.com. I decided I'd sign up for a month and see how it goes. Creating a profile is intimidating! It's not like applying for a job or performing in front of a crowd You have to make yourself seem fun, intelligent, driven, and interesting and have pictures to back that shit up! And don't get me started on the pictures! How are you supposed to choose? You don't want to only post pictures of yourself at your hottest because face it, that's not realistic. But you also hesitate to put up a picture of you when you're bumming it because you don't want people to know you look like that sometimes quite yet. Couple that with the fact that most of the pictures on my iphone are of the kids I take care of and the ones from facebook are from burlesque shows, I had no idea what to post. After a lot of searching and deciding, I think I picked a pretty good smattering of pictures that accurately reflect what I look like most of the time.
I immediately got a few "winks" and emails from people, but they weren't from anyone I'd consider dating (maybe that's part of my problem?) unfortunately. I have a 30 day membership, so I'm hoping something decent will come out of this. Or at the very least no one turns me into the subject of a Lifetime Movie...
I love how you ave so many different sides to your personality/life. Nanny/Burlesque performer!! Haha! :)
ReplyDelete"You have to make yourself seem fun, intelligent, driven, and interesting" while I understand what you mean by this...I'd also like to add that you ARE all of these things, and a bag of chips! kthanks:D
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