DW Community Catch-up Thread
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Sydney LGBTQI Mardi gras tonight! I work just up from where the 3.5 hour parade is and am meeting a friend after I finish at 10 to watch the end of it. Rather excited as I’ve never been and it’s pretty spectacular. My work has sponsored a float and the float coordinator has stashed the costumes in our boiler room, they’re absolute works of art. I hope I get to see the guys in them.
On a whim to get out of the house, albeit late, I am seeing Whiskey Tango Foxtrot with Tina Fey tonight solo. Tomorrow I work then will be going to a party of a friends. And Sunday I am hoping to go on a hike with another friend, and then plans to see slogan guy in the evening to watch Walking Dead!
Ange, I’m so jealous! Bassanio was in the parade a number of years ago and all I got were pictures. It looked like so much fun. Have a fantastic time!
Well we didn’t get to see any of the parade. My friend and I live quite a way away from the city and it turns out they closed a heap of roads and train stations near the parade route (why trains? I don’t know. One would think with roads closed trains would be needed). By the time I finished softball and found out about it all there was also a broken down train on my line so I had a delay and a long walk to work from the nearest available station. So I ended up losing my shift – and shift pay.
Still, my friend was desperate to go so we went in but entry to watch was closed as it was too full and it finished entirely as we finally found a spot. We then had to walk all the way back to our only available train station to catch the last train home. Couldn’t even have a night out! Womp womp. Hope everyone had better dates than I did this weekend lol.
I have a date tonight for the first time in a while. Things kind of flamed out with my Latin lover, mostly for logistical reasons. He lives too far, and we’re both too busy. I just started a new job, and I feel like things in my life are finally starting to settle down, but he’s still got a lot of work to do to get his life in order. I did really like him, though. Oh well. Tonight, I’m going on a date with someone who (a) lives closer and (b) already has his shit together. He also happens to be foreign, so I guess I’m on a foreign guy kick right now.
*crickets*
This makes me sad! This is my favourite thread ever…mainly since I’m living vicariously through it as I haven’t been on a date in quite some time. C’mon, beautiful people, throw me a bone!
I love reading this dating thread too…I usually keep my semi open marriage private, but my husband and I did just create profiles on OK Cupid. So that’s exciting. I’ll probably share more as we go on dates. As someone who had never done online dating before, what I’ve noticed and my general piece of advice to others is to be really picky and have high standards. I think it’s even more important in online dating when it takes so little effort to send someone a message. What I’ve found through my open marriage anyway is to really funnel and filter everyone down until there are people who fit our criteria/what we’re looking for. It’s easy to go on tons of dates via online dating, and it’s easy to say yes to a date when it’s been awhile just because someone hit you up…but I really think it’s important to be selective from the start.
Kind of bringing the Dater X into this, but I think successful dating is when it doesn’t take over your life, when it’s just a part of your otherwise full life. Anyway, that’s what I’ve noticed so far from the online dating world.
@Mylaray Sounds like a good piece of advice! A good way to approach dating for anyone really.
I am still going steady with Slogan guy. We have plans to see the Toronto Rock Lacrosse team (FUN FACT: Canada’s national sport is lacrosse!) tomorrow night. Looking forward to it as I have never seen lacrosse before and he enjoys the game and the team, despite them doing abysmal this season haha We are being joined by his friend and his GF.
Then Sunday I am seeing him again in the afternoon for some afternoon delight! Haha I have been waiting for some tests to come back and put me in the clear, and then Aunt Flow visited this week, so that stalled things again. So we are finally doing the deed this Sunday and it is safe to say we are both looking forward to it 😛
I had no idea lacrosse was Canada’s national sport (that’s an official thing?). I totally thought it would be hockey! I hope you have a blast!!
Well I’ve gone on a couple of dates this week. Monday I went out for drinks with a guy from eharmony. We met at a wine bar, had a couple of glasses, then he took me to a piano bar nearby and I had a watermelon martini (tasted like a Jolly Rancher). Followed by late night pizza. Not bad for a Monday! It was actually really fun, we have similar senses of humor, and our personalities meshed pretty well. He also gave me a very nice kiss goodnight! We’re going to go out again on Sunday.
Tonight I had coffee with a guy from Coffee Meets Bagel. He was really nice, reserved but warm in personality. He’s originally from France, but spent much of his life in the US and in Tennessee. I didn’t quite feel like we meshed as well, but it was a fun time talking to him. He asked if I maybe wanted to hang out again, and I agreed. (why not!)
Incidentally, both of these guys are totally not my type. 😛 They’re both blonde with blue eyes (same as me), which is not what I go for, but hey, they’re both cute so who cares!
Other than that, my life has been pretty quiet on the dating front but too busy everywhere else!I have a bone to throw. My date the other night…ugh. It was going pretty well, and I was thinking that I’d probably go on a second date with him. Then he kissed me. It was the most awful kissing I have ever experienced, and that’s saying a lot because I’ve encountered more than my fair share of bad kissers. We were in public, too, so I was really embarrassed thinking that people probably saw him maul my face like that. I decided to leave right after that, but then he walked me to my car and did it again. I felt like needed to wash his slobber off of my face when I got home.
