So why am I doing this anyway???? (I ask myself this all the time…!)

I guess I have thought about doing a blog for some time but found countless ways to talk myself out of it–mostly because I was ‘scared’ to put myself so out there!  But you know what–this whole dating process scares the shit out of me and I do it anyway so why should this be any different?  I have always tried (and usually succeeded) to live my life doing things that scare me–from relocating  4x to getting married to having kids to getting divorced, doing a marathon etc…why should I stop now?

Back to the blog (I tend to wander as you will no doubt notice)–I believe there is something I can learn from each date and I hope that passing that along to you will also reinforce to me just what it is I learned.  Some dates taught me extensively and others, well, weren’t really memorable enough to teach me much!  Since I can’t even keep track of the amount of times I have been told that this process is just a ‘numbers’ game, I have decided that for privacy’s sake I will refer to each of my dates by their number in order of when we dated..the names are changed to protect the innocent (and the guilty, I guess)

Nearly every date listed here came as a result of online dating–I really dislike the process and it is counter-intuitive to how I would prefer to meet people (get to know them and then develop an attraction) but in this day and age it I consider it a necessary evil because random appropriate single men aren’t just knocking on my door (note to random appropriate single men:  I can give you my address if you want…lol)

It would make so much sense if I could just start at number ONE and go from there but since I am on number NINETEEN (sigh), it makes more sense to me to tell you about the most recent ones while I still remember them best (after all, I am 52 yo people) so it may get a little confusing until I catch up.  Don’t worry, I don’t go on that many dates (at least I didn’t think I did) so one of these days I will be caught up and it will make more sense.

NOTE:  I actually re-dated these posts so they are in correct order–the dates don’t really jive wth when they were written, but I was more concerned with the posts being in order so this is what works to get them that way–whew!

Anyway, hope you enjoy my journey and we both learn something from it!