Dating Sucks

Dating is such a challenge. And I must say, I am really not good at it … AT ALL.

It's not like I am supremely unattractive or anything … in fact, most people would call me cute. Blonde and curvy, not too tall, I would like to drop a few pounds (what 25-year-old girl would not?) but I do not think that I am fat by any means. I must add that I am quite successful for my age and I even own my own place.

PS- I have also been told that I have a fabulous sense of humor and a great personality. Just FYI.

Bottom line: People should want to date me.

I am also by no means full of myself.

So why is it so hard to find a date!?

My friends tell me that I can be a little too picky. Yes, I am kind of a judger but I think I have every right to be. There is no reason to settle! It also stems from the fact that I never hang out with new people. EVER. It’s always the same group. Don’t get me wrong, I love my friends … but you can really only make out with your single guy friends so many times before it becomes painfully awkward (We can go into detail about this later).

So after a spending blackout at the outlet mall last week (J Crew outlet = best place ever), I made a decision. It was time to try online dating. I blame it on the adrenaline from buying all those madras shorts and sundresses. I don’t know what it was but something spurred me to go home and sign up for an online dating site. OK fine, maybe it was ambiguous feelings for one of my good friends (A mess which I have found myself in since my adolescent years- again more details later). But I have squashed that situation and decided that it was feeling displacement.

I never thought I would be one of those people who actually PAID to find a date. When you put it that way, it sounds really, really pathetic. But it is an idea that I have been toying with for months … so I figured why not?

So here my journey begins …. Online dating. Let’s give it a shot.

BTW, if you tell ANYONE I joined an online dating site … the penalty is death. Do not say I did not warn you.