Getting Back to Online Dating

I had to take approximately a month hiatus from online dating. Between a couple crazy football and beer filled weekends and moving to my new place, I haven't had the time or the Internet in order to really search for my next date.

I was emailing this guy from eHarmony who works in the family business designing signs for a while - "Design guy". Of course the move hindered any steady communication. Also, he has terrible spelling and grammar, which is a HUGE turnoff. I understand some typos, but it was one giant block of text any way too many instances where the proper tense was not used. I'm sure my grammatically correct friends' heads would have exploded reading these emails. He seemed nice enough, but I appreciate the effort to at least separate paragraphs with a line if you can't use the Tab key (email programs through web browsers - you can't use the tab key. Hence writing as I do with block paragraphs.) I might respond to his last email though because he seems like a nice guy.

I also checked out some Match profiles when I had some internet time. There were two guys in particular that I winked at. "New Attorney guy" and "Nuclear Engineer guy". I liked both of their profiles so I winked at both and both started writing me. "New Attorney guy" responded much faster so we exchanged a few emails and then started texting early last week. We had a bit in common and the text exchanges seemed positive. I met him last week and he was fairly attractive and very nice. However, I don't quite feel the chemistry. I did kiss him at the end of the night, but then again, that's not necessarily a definite second date since I have kissed many boys just once in my past and I don't always have an attachment after once kiss (contrary to popular belief.)

I believe I mentioned "Nuclear Engineer guy" previously - in his pictures he looks like he could be way too pretty. But I definitely find his pictures attractive. Unfortunately, this has been a long process because he had a lot of on-site business trips so communication was sporadic. We exchanged 2 emails and then he asked for my number in the third email. Of course I gave it to him and we spoke on the phone last Monday. We were making plans and I mentioned that I was busy Saturday with a friend's early Thanksgiving dinner party and then my friend's bar that has fried turkey. "Nuclear Engineer guy" apparently loves fried turkey (he told me) and I told him about the annual Thanksgiving dinner at the bar. I told him I would invite him but we had discussed in our emails meeting on neutral ground and since my friends would be at the bar, it wouldn't be neutral. He asked if my friends were mean to which I responded, "Not at all. In fact they're really nice!"

So we made plans to meet this Friday night somewhere neutral for a couple drinks. He said, "Well, when me meet if you don't suck and I don't suck, then maybe we can hang out on Saturday night, too." I agreed to that, so hopefully we won't think the other sucks. I did ask him to tell me if he's not interested and that I would tell him the same. He seemed to like the fact that I'm all about being honest and not playing games. So I'm definitely excited to meet him and see what happens.

So for right now, I am hoping for good things with "Nuclear Engineer guy" and putting "New Attorney guy" on hold pending Friday's results. If things don't go well I will probably give "New Attorney guy" a second chance and see if it's just me being skittish since I've never actually had a second date from Match. I'm also going to keep writing "Design guy" and this other guy "SEM guy" that I've been emailing on Match, too.

This online dating thing is getting exhausting so let's hope Friday goes well and I hangout with "Nuclear Engineer guy" on Saturday, too.