27 Days of Dating

My mom called yesterday afternoon with some interesting info that I hadn't thought about.  I'm working a cheerleading competition with her on Sunday at a place that employs one of my former suitors on the paid dating site.  Remember the guy who politely called me fat and was super nosy?  Well, he works at the arena hosting the competition and is apparently their contact.  I didn't even put all that together until mom called and suggested I find a way to remember his name and face, should we encounter each other this weekend.  Good call on her part, otherwise I'd go crazy trying to figure out how I knew him.

So I went on the site to see if I could recover the old emails (I couldn't) or find him in a search (I didn't, but I did find him on the employee list of the arena's website - crisis averted), but I did discover that my account is till paid up until December 29th.  Once I saw that I thought, "Let's do something crazy."  I updated all my info and changed all my pictures and have now embarked on 27 days of online dating.

I'm approaching it a little differently this time, and that's where the experiment part comes in.  My page is about as bluntly honest as it could possibly get.  I have my very specific description of what I want (a 26-35 yr old man, not boy, who is confident & sane but not a rebel, etc.... note the age range has changed again). I also disclosed that I'm only there until 12/29 and then I'm gone forever.  I also mention having a cat who is spoiled and that I tried online dating once before and ended up hiding my profile and essentially quitting.  All of my pictures are from 2010 (which I also mention) and I even put that I have a relationship blog and that all the sordid details of our courtship would be written for all the world to read.  Is there a man up for the challenge?  More importantly, would my honesty and forthrightness (there's a college word for you!) make me more successful than when I made my first attempts and used words and pictures I thought guys would like?

I updated everything at 5 pm Thursday, and since then here's how it stands (all stats as of 4:30 pm Friday, so less than 24 hours):

• Page views - 35
• Emails - 7
• Winks (ugh) - 11
• IM conversations - 2
• Guys who have added me to their favorites - 2
• Phone numbers acquired - 2
• Guys who requested the link to my blog - 3
• Dates planned - 0

Not too bad, I say.  Yes, I know I quit all this a couple months ago. Yes, I know I swore I'd never do it again.  But I'm horribly indecisive and easily bored and this seemed like a fun thing to do during the holidays (holidating! woohoo!). 

I'll probably put more updates on the facebook page than I do on here, so if you want to keep track that way, "like" the page at http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Confessions-of-an-Online-Dating-Queen/133961919986612.

Here's to some fun!