All about me.

I was writing to someone about myself, and took the time to really try to see who I am. This is what I came up with:

I am not smart. I am not at all stupid, but I didn't go to college. I have an entry-level, dead-end job, and am too lazy to "recognize my full potential".

I can truly find humor in almost anything. I love trying and learning new things. I am impulsive, and love to be spontaneous. I am extremely social, and enjoy meeting new people and making any situation fun. I am always cheerful and optimistic with other people’s problems, and am very solution-oriented but a perpetual pessimist when it comes to my own life. I love people in a one on one setting and always want to do anything I can to help them in any way I can, but hate people as a whole and have fantasies of nuking entire groups of people.

I am a contradiction. I am extremely independent and need my space but when I am interested in a guy, he becomes my whole world. I think about him all the time and my life is brighter when he is near, or even if I am just IMing him. I have a hard time connecting with people, but when I do, it is dynamic. I don’t know that I have ever actually been in love. I believe that passion is more important than love. I aspire to one day meet a man whose passions run as high a mine and I won't HAVE to temper myself to keep from scaring him away...

I love to drink beer, go camping, have bonfires on the beach, and just enjoy the company of people around me. I have a wide range of interests because I find almost anything new to be exciting. The down side to that is that I become consumed with my new interest and lose interest very quickly. I loathe being cliché, but I really do see myself as tissue paper fire. I burn brightly and easily, but not for very long.

I am FED up with personals!

I really don't want to come across as negative here, but I am so sick of internet dating!

I am looking for someone special. I have been divorced (NO KIDS!) and single for a year now, and after s bit of dating, I am ready for someone steady to share my time with. Enter: personals!

This internet dating this is such a hassle though! Or is it just me? I find myself drawn to craigslist, looking at the m4w section, looking at all the ads, browsing by age, pic only, you name it, but no matter what ads come up, the result is still the same. I have to decide to send an email. I have to be clever enough in my response to be chosen from among the others who have also emailed this “great guy”.

Then I get to wait for a reply. They waiting isn’t really so bad. It’s email, once it’s sent, it’s forgotten. When I do get a reply I then must decided how I will respond again! Are we going to exchange pics? Are we going to meet? Will he like my pics? Ugh. Then when we FINALLY meet we have to start all over from the beginning, as if we’d just met that person at the bar!

There’s always the option of me posting a personal myself. That’s even worse! I take my time trying to write something clever and witty that will stand out from all the other ads, and then have to wait for responses. Most of them are short one liners that do NOTHING to make me want to reply, others are just the generic blurb that the lazy ones post into every email response, several are so riddled with grammatical errors that it’s all I can do to not email them berating them for not paying attention in 2nd grade!

The few worthy replies that I do get I have to take the time and energy to decide how to respond. At this point you can just go reread paragraph 4, because it’s the same process.

There MUST be a better way!!!