Moneypenny
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That’s such a pretty dress! 🙂
So my parents have a cat who usually keeps her distance from pretty much all strangers. When my bf came over for the first time, she actually let him pet her and give her a treat. So that was a good sign.
My feeling is, you don’t have to love a particular type of animal (some people are just dog people, etc) but you have to be kind no matter what.
MissDre, that dress is so pretty! It’s very classic looking. I could see it with a cute fascinator hat or something.
I love more candid photos from weddings! I think engagement photos are sooooo cheesy. Like, really, you ride around with your fiance in his bicycle’s basket on the regular? Eyeroll.
And also, my bf will watch Say Yes as well as most HGTV programs with me. We have some entertaining convos during those shows!
Count me as someone who secretly wants to try on wedding dresses, just for the fun of it. I like Say Yes to the Dress too- I’m so fascinated by what people choose! And I like to think yay/nay on whether I’d wear something similar. The Kleinfeld episodes where the women have unlimited budgets and pick $25k dresses are NUTS!
Yay for everyone’s updates!
MissDre, I followed you too. 🙂
Copa, I’m rooting for you for a fun, positive date 2! And to get through your crazy week, haha.
Yay, congrats, MissDre!! And also congrats to theHizzy!!
Also, good luck on the date, Copa!
I brought my bf of 11 months to Thanksgiving this year (the first time my parents met him too)- and it went well. Luckily there were a couple of other people there too so the conversation wasn’t on us the whole time. And my mom likes him. They have only met one other boyfriend of mine, and that was almost 10 years ago! I’m very private about my love life around my family, ha.
Copa, I tried Hinge around… 2014 I think? When it first came out. And I liked the format of the app- easy to use, you got a few options but not too many, etc. Then I tried it more recently after they redid the format and I just found it really clunky and ultimately annoying to use. On top of that, I would always get “likes” (or hearts or whatever they use) but no comments and nobody responded to any of my comments. It just felt like a waste of time and energy so I deleted it.
I met my bf on Tinder! We started messaging last Christmas Eve and our first date was the day after Christmas. Up to that point, I had been doing online/app dating since around spring of ’15, so roughly 1.5 years. I did eharmony for about 6 months (and went out with maybe 6 different people); coffee meets bagel (which, numbers-wise I had the best success and went on a lot of first dates- maybe 20-30? but few follow ups); tinder (a few dates but a couple of casual hookups but I was also really picky); bumble (one date, very little interactions otherwise); hinge for a hot second (nope don’t do it)… Whew. haha.
I definitely took a lot of breaks. I had to for my own sanity, and also so that I would feel refreshed for when I *did* want to go out with someone. And even with my bf, I was really unsure of where it was going to go and how I felt about it for the first few weeks. I remember telling my friend that I thought he was an odd duck but that there was something about him that I liked.
Also, YES to weekends in. I love a free evening spent organizing my apartment/cleaning/doing nothing in particular.
@K and others- I have dated a lot of engineers! Primarily software/hardware engineers. And a high number of ones that work for a certain fruit-named company, ha. But I also live in that area anyway so it’s hard to avoid. I have to say, though, that a lot of them have been endearingly nerdy! My boyfriend is completely not my type at first glance (he works in a specialized trade that you’d consider blue collar, is definitely not nerdy) and when we were first dating I wasn’t sure how it was going to go, but we go together really well. (And we’ve just been dating for 10 months, so, so far so good I guess?)
Chiming in as someone who has been lurking for ages, but used to comment here: Copa, I’m really sorry that happened. My best consolation is, at least you didn’t waste more time on him than you did? It’s so frustrating though! 🙁
Can I tell you a semi-funny/bizarre story that happened to me a couple of days ago? Ok, here goes. Backstory: Around august of last year I went on 3-4 dates with a guy. It was fun, we slept together too, and I did like him enough as far as I knew him. Then, he disappeared on me. I wasn’t terribly sad about it, but it was certainly frustrating because it had happened to me a lot. About a month later, I randomly get a text from him. He wanted to see me; said he was sorry for dropping off (blamed grad school), etc. Wanted to get together. I was pretty over it, but was naively curious about what he wanted. He comes over, and all he wants is to have sex. Like, basically no pretense even. I was like, uhhh, huh? Sorry, not interested. Told him that he was awfully presumptuous for thinking I was still interested after all that time after he ghosted me. He eventually left, I deleted his number. Then, three days ago, I get a random text from a number I don’t recognize, basically saying, “Hi Moneypenny! How have you been? Hope you are doing well!” I decided that before saying, “new phone, who dis?” that I would attempt to figure out who it was. I ended up typing the number into the Facebook search bar, and guess who popped up? Same guy from a year ago. We are not friends and I pretty clearly rejected him at the time and told him why. WTF. Although I am again curious what could possibly be going through his head to inspire him to text me, I have not responded.
My sister and I got wrapped presents from Santa as well! Even now, I’ll get a gift labeled from Rudolph or Mrs. Claus.
I kind of figured out that Santa wasn’t real on my own… Mostly because it just didn’t logically make sense and the handwriting on the packages were always my mom’s. I just kept it to myself, though.
Portia, I’ve seen crackers at Cost Plus! They usually have a few different ones to choose from.
