I Fell Off the Wagon

I was completely going to take a break from the online dating for awhile. Just a bit of a recovery period from the last two mishaps with the Romanian and "med student guy". But alas, I fell off the wagon and am back to talking to guys online again.

It started innocently enough. I had received some emails through Match.com and Plentyoffish.com so I went online to write back that I wasn't interested in meeting anyone right now. And I did write that - to the guys who weren't cute and who met my criteria (height, children, etc.) There was one on each site that had contacted me, were cute, and met the initial requirements. So I winked back at the one on Match.com and wrote back to the guy on Plentyoffish.com.

The Match.com guy, now known as "coworker guy" since he previously worked with some friends of mine and also knows one of my former coworkers (he is not one of my coworkers though, so don't get confused), apparently doesn't pay for Match anymore or really just enjoys tracking people down through social media. Because he friend requested me on Facebook. However, it's easier to find me through Match.com because of the username mistake that I made when I initially signed up. So we've been talking for a bit - he does some web design work and I asked him if his site was SEO-friendly. However, I haven't found the click yet. I'll continue to pleasantly write back though because he seems like a pretty nice guy.

The Plentyoffish.com guy works during the day as an Executive Recruiter, plays hockey in the evening, and then plays solo acoustic "gigs" at night. I'm going to call him "rock star guy" since he actually plays music onstage. In front of people. That and it's just cool to say. He and I sent a couple emails back and forth on Sunday and Monday. However, I haven't heard back from him. He seems like he might not be a big email person. That and he's super busy. He seems nice enough, but it may take forever to get to know him and I am not doing the whole "talk over email and phone for a month then make plans to meet that never happen" thing again.

While I was on POF, I decided to do some window shopping. So I checked out some profiles and there were a couple guys who met the requirements that I placed on my favorites list with the intention of writing to them in the near future. I really was trying to stay on the wagon. But then "Peters Twp guy" (because he lives there) and "FSN guy" (because he works for FSN Pittsburgh producing Pens and Pirates games) wrote to me. I wrote them back Sunday evening. That officially made me fall off of the "no online dating" wagon. Yes, bad Kristy.

"FSN guy" and I wrote some emails back and forth Sunday evening and Monday. His Tuesday morning email asked for my number because we had quite a bit to talk about over email. We talked about Pittsburgh, museums, sports, work, family, and the online dating thing. And most importantly, "FSN guy" is willing to provide 2 forms of photo id, a list of references, and go through any sort of application process I put forward. He definitely gets my sense of humor so far! Bonus points for him.

We decided that we had to meet. After a "phone interview" though. Because you have to talk over the phone at least once, even if it's to setup the time to meet. He called last night and we talked for about 40 minutes and it was a good conversation. I didn't even realize the we talked for 40 minutes - I thought it was only 15 or 20. And we're definitely going to meet up probably either Friday or Saturday since he's off both days and I have plans through Thursday. So I'm excited to meet him, but not expecting a second date yet because of the bad luck thing.