Better late than never..

I realized today that maybe I should have started keeping a diary of this whole online dating experience when I started.  Otherwise, how I am I going to remember all these stories and relate them back to my friends and family?  Well, even though I feel like I want to take a slight break from dating after my date tomorrow, I am sure my journey is far from over.  After all, tomorrow will be Match #7, and so far, 5 out of 6 have been 1 time meetings only.

So what spurred wanting to blog about this stuff?  It was a "wink" from BumpyBigBoy.  (For those of you who don't know what a wink is, it's sort of an online "flirting" gesture.)  Anyway, the name alone brings many horrible images into my head.  I tried to look at his photo on my phone, but alas, shockingly, he didn't have one.  I did see that he was 51....ummm.  He still doesn't win the age contest though, since I once got a wink from a 58 year old who rode his bike across the country with his dog and wrote a book about it.  Good for him!

And honestly, I have heard some truly heinous stories about some first dates.  So far, I have been pretty lucky.  I have had some pretty interesting "dates" with some nice guys.  The worst one so far turned out to be super boring.  He talked about triathlon training the whole time and then his ex-wife. 

Most of my stories are either interesting emails or texts.  For example, the first text I ever got from the one guy said, "Greetings from my king size bed!"  First text ever!  What do you even say to that??!!

Then I got email-yelled at by someone who is 42.  My age limit is 36, though that is certainly not set in stone.  So his intro says something like this, "What do you have against guys who are over 40?  I am a guy who is older than 40 and I think I could compete with any 36 year old!"  He then proceeds to tell me that he wants to come and take me out for lunch sometime.  I mean, really!  Totally "yell" at me then ask me out to lunch?  That was a huge turn off right there. 

Okay, I am going to call it a night for right now.  I am hoping tomorrow goes well, although I am not excited, and I am pretty sure my date called me "Jill" on the phone last night........