Internet dating...ugh

V and I decided it was time to be more proactive with our plan for 2010 to be our most awesome year ever.  That means getting serious about meeting new people and that pretty much (in this day and age) brings you to online dating.  Yes, you can meet people when you're out, but that can be sketchy, and I work in an office with about 15-20 so that's not happening, and all my friends are basically in couples and apparently have little to no single friends.  Ergo, online dating.

We signed up for a site where V writes my profile and I write her's, and then we comment on them ourselves.  So we did that, and posted a few pictures of ourselves, and then hoped for the best.  Basically for this site you mark people as "favorites".  They then get a note that says "Kat has marked you as one of her favorites" and they can check you and write you a message.  Or you can just dive head first and see someone that you think is cute and write them a message.

After two days of being on the site, V and I called each other saying that we have never felt less cute in our lives.  I said, maybe I'm not as cute as I think I am!  Why, might you ask, would I think that?  Well, some of the winners that marked me as a fav...yikes.  Ignoring their physical characteristics, some of them just made me think, holy cheeseball.  First of all, I'm down as 5'8".  I'm actually 5'7 3/4".  Either way, I'm tall.  I am not too critical on guy's height, but please, be at LEAST as tall.  I think that's pretty reasonable.  Ok I know that's a physical characteristic, but at least I didn't say that all these guys seem to be sub-par.

They also can be UBER-cheese.  There was this guy...his friend wrote:

Re-advertised due to time wasters...

We are please to offer an excellent example of a classic but not yet vintage model with no spare parts. This 1976 (P registration) has had a few careless owners; however this is not reflected in anyway and it is certainly considered to be one of the better examples currently available. 


The analogy went on far too long.  Then the actual single guy replied:


POSITION AVAILABLE! Must be committed, flexible, have an excellent sense of humour and the ability to think on her feet. This position consists of working closely with another partner and may require out of hours socialising. The hours are often long but the benefits are great. If you're interested in this highly regarded position, apply within... XXX 


Gag me with a serrated knife.  First of all...do not treat me like I'm applying for a job.  You would be LUCKY to get me.  Second of all, hours are long?  benefits?  what??  Thirdly, "XXX"?  Boys shouldn't make kissy symbols. 


Hopefully I'll go on one date at least, to make back the money I dropped on signing up for this thing.  Judging by how its going so far though, I'm not hopeful!  


Well, at least there are some good things going on to take my mind off this.  Its been great weather (even though its supposed to snow in the north this weekend), I'm leaving for spain in two weeks, and I got a tan/burn last weekend!