Let the Fun Begin!

Well, here we go, my friends. As the title says: let the fun begin!

First, I would like to preface that I don't think online dating is necessarily a joke. I've fiddled with Match.com, actually been successful with eHarmony years ago and think that online is just as good a place as any to meet a good fella. My Mom and Pop met over the phone back in the mid-60s: when I told my now almost-70-year-old Momma about online dating her response was simply, "hey, well, that's your generation of our telephone."

Nicely said!

So I've been meaning to jump back in for a while now. To meet someone? Sure! Who doesn't want to meet someone? But also because of all the fun and crazy stories my other online-dating friends have told me. Sometimes we laughed until we cried. Other times we stared in disbelief. Thankfully, we have yet to need restraining orders. But the "laughed 'til we cried" part made me think: what would it be like if I chronicled this experience? If the goal IS to meet someone, then it would be really kinda cool to see the process along the way. And if it didn't happen? Shoot, at least I'd have enough memories of laughing 'til we almost peed our pants moments to enjoy the journey. I'm diggin' it.

So I chose me some OKCupid.com. I chose this mainly because it was free! I reckon that if I were real serious at this point, I might go back to eHarmony (like I've said, that was successful...but in reasons I didn't expect. More on that another time). Also, my good friends Laurie* and Marie* actually met matches through this same site.

*names mentioned from here on out will always be changed to protect the innocently guilty. Reckon I'm going to have to keep a notebook to keep all this on track.

So, hey! Let's give it a roll, shall we?