Radio Silence to Full Access

Gosh, it's so damn hard to go radio silent.  But when  you find out your bosses 'follow you,' it's generally a phenomenal idea!

So I waited out the trivial stuff, until I had something really GOOD that I wanted to share.  Because that's just how I roll, darlin'.

I. DID.  IT.  (Not HIM, IT!!)  I swore I wouldn't and yet I did.  Sometimes I think I did it just so I could manipulate my public persona.  Create a ME that was new and improved.  Be Jen 2.0.

I joined an online dating service.

For one month.

But, I wimped out on the Jen 2.0.  I am me.  Just me.  Jen 1.0.  Bugs and all.

I used this as my profile picture:

Actual Profile Picture

And also added this picture:

and this one:

The response has been tepid at best.

I wonder why.  Sigh.








KIDDING!!





I should have said I was the DirecTV Genie!

Holy God she's hot!  And so so SO not me!

I really did join a dating service.  Gosh, it was hard.  They ask you these questions about what you want (are you talking in REAL life or in my dreams?).  Like the age thing.  I woulda put 26-28, but I didn't want to be creepy.  So I put 35-45.  Much more realistic right?  (How the HELL do I know?  I'm the one that had to join a dating site!)

And the winks?  Who winks anymore?  At least it's not the Facebook 'poke' but they should have thought it out more.  Maybe a 'salute' or a 'head nod.'  A 'Hug.'  Or a 'Toast."  That's it.  A 'Toast'  I could sure as hell use a toast more than a wink at the end of the day (or during the day as I'm checking out my winks.)

I've gotten response, like a piece of bloody meat would get in a shark tank.  Most of them are warning me about the scammers, which makes me certain that they are scammers. Some seem desperate.  NO NO I won't babysit your nephews so you can go to Finland!!!  But no one has shown up at my door.

Good thing for them.  Bad thing for my dog.  (She's in desperate need of a date, too)

I started last Saturday. Today is Tuesday.  My stats are:  viewed by 372.  Favorited by 6 (wth).  Winks (eek) received: 35  Winks sent:  1 (what can I say, I'm passive!!).  Emails received - which was the damn reason I had to plunk down the cash:  74

This ISN'T about numbers, of course.  It's about our own version of quality.  And I'm sure I'll be butting heads with different versions along the way.  But.  Unless you've gotten some directive from above, it's hard to find quality in this type of venue without quantity.

I have a date coming up by doing things this way.  Without it, I was averaging a date a year.

The $35 was earmarked for a tanning membership.  This is SO much less fake ;)