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Disappointed. And Annoyed.

I know that everyone was all excited about my fun/good date on Thursday night, but there isn’t going to be a 3rd date with Mr. Perfect on Paper. I wish I could say that I didn’t care one way or the other, but that would be a lie. I’m disappointed, but considering everything else that’s [...]

Some Things Are Beyond Our Control

Perhaps I should have called today’s post, “Incoherent Ramblings on a Rainy Saturday Afternoon”.  My apologies. I was talking with a friend last night about heartache. We didn’t label it heartache, but that’s what we were talking about. That horrible feeling you get when your heart feels so full of pain and hurt and leftover [...]

Look at Her Kissing Another Guy In Front of the Restaurant

So last nights’ date was weird. Good weird, but weird.  I think the only way to tell the story is to jump into the middle. Please try to stay with me. So me and Mr. Perfect on Paper were laughing and drinking and talking at one of my favorite local wine bars. It’s a place [...]

Speaking of GGG, On a Scale of 1-10…

In yesterday’s post I made reference to the phrase GGG and even joked about there being a GGG scale. I provided a link to the Urban Dictionary (my favorite reference source) so that folks who weren’t familiar with the phrase could get become so. But since GGG is the topic du jour: GGG stands for [...]

But I Have Rope

So yesterday I mentioned a dinner party.  At some point in the evening we got to talking about online dating, I don’t remember how. Anyway, we shared stories of people who used old pictures, lied about their height – all the usual stuff. My story, I think, had them all beat.  It was a Saturday [...]