#1-10 Summary

The last week, my POF activity has really increased and so I apologize for the confusion and trying to keep up! I've been asked for a list so here is a summary of everyone so far, for your clarity, and for mine.

Italicized are out. Bold are still an option.

# 10

#10 - haven't met him yet - from Tennessee. Was in the military and now does works as a civilian doing some military training.

#9 - Met him for coffee the other day. Mutual disinterest.

#8 - Was supposed to go to the rodeo, ended up meeting at a cool country bar in Cumberland, WA (BFE) and then getting Mexican. The weekend prior, he broke up with his girlfriend of two years who was a recovering addict and lived with him without working and was a slob.

#7

#7 - Met for beer and apps on Monday afternoon at the spur of the moment. He drove a cool old truck (don't ask me what) and seemed like a nice guy. Lives with his dog in the mountains in a log cabin that his parents recently bought (they don't live there) and is working on remodeling it. Haven't heard from him except right after we met. Maybe he's not feeling it. I should ask him perhaps if he's up for meeting again, but maybe not.

#6 - sent me distasteful texts. I ignored him after that.

#5

#5 - Rob - definitely leading the pack right now. FaceTimed last week with him, met him for coffee Sunday, and FaceTimed again last night for quite a while. Really cool guy. From Alaska, was in the marines for 5 years I think. Went to school to be an audio engineer, finished in May and is completing his internship right now. He does the sound stuff for live shows so he's working some big festival in Seattle (Bumbershoot?) this weekend. Lives with his brother and another roommate who is an acupuncturist.

#4 - Stopped talking to me. See "Out with the old. In with the new"

#3 - Told him I wasn't interested after meeting him twice. It sucks telling people that.

#2 - Met once (first online date I went on actually) and wasn't really interested.

#1 - Asked me too much about my diarrhea. Speaking of him I hadn't heard from him for three weeks and he started texting me, that his back was bothering him and he was going to go see a chiropractor. I was polite. Then saturday he texted me to see if I wanted to go to the Mariners game (which I didn't really). He didn't take the let down very well. Maybe I could have been nicer. I thought it was obvious when we didn't talk for two weeks. Also notice he took a whole 26 hours to respond back. Had to think up a good one.

Date with Eight

Was just asked to go to the Enumclaw Rodeo tonight with Larry, who is now #8. Have not made up my mind yet, but rodeos are always fun!

However I did the usual and customary Facebook stalking and found he has two friends in common with Joe! One of them is a good college friend of Joe's who was with us on New Year's Eve. 

Eeek!

5, 6, 7....

There's no 8 yet.

#5 got added Monday. He is Rob (as you saw in the previous post) - he is an audio engineer and lives down in Seattle. He looks cute in his pictures but our conversations for a bit were making me think he might 1) be a conspiracy theorist or 2) be surrounded by conspiracy theorists. We FaceTimed the other night on our computers and he seemed pretty normal, so we'll see. We tentatively set a date for Wednesday night!

#6 came on board Tuesday but he didn't really make it through the day. He sent me photos that were a bit too risque for Day 1 of texting and so I just stopped responding. I'm not going to share them.

#7 I think was added Wednesday...I haven't gotten a good feel for him, but he seems potentially good too. He lives up by Kachess Lake, but works somewhere in the Seattle area. He's living in his family's log cabin, working on fixing it up and saving some money in the mean time. He has a dog, likes to fish and camp and do that kind of outdoorsy stuff.

I have been asked a few times about #4...Still have not heard from him. #3 texted me last week and asked if there was any interest. I politely told him no. And #1 (diarrhea asking guy) also texted me a few times this week but I haven't really encouraged that conversation.

And seriously, what is up with all the dolphin pictures? Here are some more...

Juggling 4 or 5 guys

Has he been reading my blog?

Out with the old. In with the new!

Well I know many of you were pulling for #4, but.....turns out he too is a jerk and stood me up on Friday night! So instead of Anya tracking my every move from far away, she came over with Michael her husband, brought wine, and made me dinner. Then we drank the "Josh" bottle of wine so that it would be gone forever from my house. I really wanted to smash it on the pavement and shout ASSHOLE!!! but I thought that would be a little too dramatic and I didn't want to have to clean up the glass (also maybe there are cute guys in my neighborhood?). I never did hear from him.

Went to Coeur d'Alene for Caitlin's bachelorette party, and had a great time. Check out the action I got at the country bar.

This old man tried to dance with every girl in there. Can't blame him. He taught me how to two step to Hank Williams, Jr's "Family Tradition" which is one of my favorites, but I think I would have preferred to sing it at the top of my lungs with the other drunk/happy bar-goers.

I'm working on a #5 and a #6, maybe even a #7. Got a few bites today that might be keepers. Or at least hold me over for a bit.

One last note, #4 got demoted in my phone from his actual name back to #4. Just in case he ever does does decide to text me, I'll know to send him threatening emojis.

The fun doesn't end

OMG the dolphin pictures! Just got a message from this guy! 

Creeper status

Well, I ended up seeing #4 after work Tuesday for dinner, which again was a good time. I had burned two CDs for him that we had been talking about (and he actually plays CDs in his car), and he gave me this bottle of wine. So that was a nice surprise mutual gift-giving thing.

#4's name is Josh

We have plans to get together tomorrow night for a bonfire at his house. I think with his roommate and neighbors. I had Anya download the "Find Friends" app and so now she can see where I am at all times. Kind of creepy, but at least she can monitor me for abduction tomorrow night. Also, it's kind of good because living alone, I always wonder what would happen if I died or disappeared over the weekend when Pergo (my roommate) is gone? (He is gone quite frequently - more than he is here). Now at least if there is suspicion, Anya can look and see where to send the police.

Right now I'm at home.

We usually text quite a bit, but I haven't hear from #4 since 4pm about a truck he is thinking of buying. I think he needs to get a vehicle in the next week. He also had softball tonight, but I texted him around 5:30 and still have not heard back. I am getting a little bit annoyed, but it reminds me that perhaps I don't need to text him quite so much, so I got on POF and tended to the new messages that I had since I haven't signed in since Monday.

Here are some pictures I came across:

 

High School Senior Photo?           Just Weird.                      Dolphin Love. <3        

Gross, not attractive.        Well, I love my cat too.      Sweet chest hair.  

         DUCK FACE!!!           Might like dolphins too.

So, after being a bit discouraged, I decided to do a bit of Facebook stalking on #4 and found out after his softball game, he went to the woods for a bonfire.

No, we are not Facebook friends, nor does he know that I found his page. I think he made it un-searchable like his POF page, which makes my stalking almost as creepy as the Find Friends app that I had Anya download.

Lucky Number 4?

Well I wish I had been updating more because I don't like to recap so many days at once. I haven't had too much online activity because I've been working a lot. 

Saturday, I met Melissa (and Matt) and Anya (and Michael) Saturday for happy hour. We ended up doing a bit of bar hopping and at one point was at Black Raven Brewery in Redmond, and #3 had been texting me a bit, so I told him we were there. He was nice, but it wasn't quite right. This is a group text I got while we were sitting around the table talking:

Michael wanted to hang out with him more but I think the rest of us were ready to part ways. We ended up at Malarky's (I <3 Malarky's) listening to mostly bad and selfish karaoke.

What is selfish karaoke you ask? Well, selfish karaoke is when someone sings a depressing song that instead of pumping the crowd up, brings everyone down a few notches and usually takes you to the bottom of your beer. It might be good for the bar, but it's not good for morale!

Anyways, for the good stuff. Yesterday afternoon, I met #4 for lunch. At approximately 1:30 and we were there until almost 4! It was fun, we talked the whole time about all sorts of different things. We were texting almost immediately after. I went home and did some work and then he invited me to meet him at the dog park. So we were hanging out again by about 6:00 and I didn't leave Snoqualmie until after 10:30! It was so fun! 

I'm sure you are wondering but don't want to ask - 1) I did not go to his house (I will get a GPS tracker app that Anya can watch before I do that). And 2) no we did not kiss but I am not going to be putting that sort of stuff up since this is the internet!! And also because Aunt Patty reads this!

Another date? We might get coffee this afternoon if I have a little break. I hope so because I don't want to wait till Friday to see him again! (He invited me to a bonfire friday night. At his house I think so I need to get on that stalker app ASAP.)

Just a side note: Sunday, I went to Target with this shopping list:

In Issaquah, we have to pay for bags now, so this is what happens when you are too cheap to pay 5¢ for a paper bag. Or you want to save the trees.

Thanks for reading!

Big Oops!

I meant to text Anya:

But as you may be able to guess from the title of this blog, I had an oops moment. It follows below:

At least I didn't write "I was up late texting #3 and #4 again" because that would require a lot more explaining!

Froyo Date with #3

Monday night, I met #3 at a nice little froyo place in Redmond. It was fun, lighthearted, and we sat on their patio chatting for 2 1/2 hours, in fact they had to ask us to leave so they could clear the patio furniture. So that's a good sign. I learned that he loves the color green and sour things, so he got key lime yogurt and it was way too sour for me. His mom is a nurse practitioner and his step dad a pulmonologist (I think) and so he comes from quite a medical background. I would definitely go out with him again, and he mentioned planning a hike and/or meal and/or beer.

I have also been texting quite a bit with #4 (work hard snowboard), who seems to be quite funny. We seemed to have an unusually long conversation about camels.

And also about the overuse of "lol" and "haha," which was a funny conversation that actually made me laugh out loud, and I didn't know how to express that since lol seems to have lost a lot of its meaning.

So #4 and I were trying to figure out a time to meet up, and we both don't have the same free night until next Friday, the 17th (which I may not be free for anyway). I guess with online dating it is casual. I don't know how this works, what if I go out with #3 again? I guess there are no rules about not seeing #4 but I have never done that before (seeing people in between each other) I don't think. 

Date tomorrow with #3

No-date Wednesday

Well #3 cancelled on me last night...said he was at work until 8:30. In his defense, he did give me the heads up about it being a possibility a few days ago. I think he might be a chicken and need to grow some you know what!

So instead I got on my POF app and started chatting with workhard_snowboard, who is now more affectionately known as #4. He seems nice. He likes to get up at 4 am and drink coffee and take his dog for a walk.

Seattleblah sent me a third (long) message, this time pointing out that I hadn't yet responded to him and telling me again that he works for NASA. Sorry buddy, the rocket scientist line doesn't work on me!

Funny picture for the day: