I've got my life raft! I'm ready to jump!

Ok, so the thing I could not tell you before is that I am leaving my job! 6 days left and counting! I am very excited for my next adventure and am very confident that God has something awesome for me. He has already provided me with peace with a few small doors opening in the future. In the mean-time I am looking forward to the time off. I need a vacation!

So the dating Web site…it is going OK I guess. I’m starting to wonder if it is actually pulling people that really match me, or just people that are within my age range and live in the area, or not in the area in some case.

Right now I would say out of 15 “non closed” matches and of those I have three active interests. One started communicating with me and the other two I started communicating with, but they have yet to respond. That was over a week ago. A funny little coincidence is that one of the two that has yet to respond I have met before at church. Now that I started communication and he has yet to respond I am fearful that he remembers me and is not interested. Ekks! That’s embarrassing. But at the same time, they were nice when I met them and couldn’t I just use this as an opportunity to get to know them better?

I am really interested in the etiquette of these sites as well. I feel like there are unspoken rules that I don’t know about. My example of this is one of my first matches was actually a friend from college who I, and my girl friends, loved dearly when we were all closer, but were not interested in dating. He is a great guy, and I know that he will make some girl really happy, but for me the chemistry is and was never there. Also about nine months ago a friend told me that she was matched with him. My friend and I are totally opposites so this was surprising that we were both matched with him. Knowing this information I emailed him saying how funny that he had been matched with two people he knew from college, and asked how the site had been working for him. What this wrong? Should she not have told me? Should I have not mentioned that I knew about the match?

Also what am I supposed to do with the match? I feel like closing it would be a slap in the face to him. But it’s not personal. Should I just let him hang in limbo? He seems to be leaving me there too? Hmm…oh what I will learn in this process!

Adieu 2009! Bonjour 2010!!

Well, this is my first post of the New Year. I hope everyone had a great holiday season. The last few days it has been really interesting reflecting on 2009, all that I hoped it would be, and what it actually turned out to be.

I remember arriving home New Years day and thinking, “this is going to be a good year, I am going to make this a good year.” After 2008 felt a little bit like a let down, I was determined to turn a new leaf. 2008 felt somewhat like a step back in life. After living in Eugene for almost 5 years, I quite my job, and moved back with my parents. I was unemployed for 2 months, and was still single. Well, unfortunately 2009 was not much different. I lived with my parents for the entire year, was still single, and work as a temp for the entire year. While all of this might seem mundane, there were some good things. I made some great friends and feel that I have a new network of close people. I am very thankful for this.

Like most people, I am happy to see 2010 and plan to make it a great year! I will move out! That is one of my main goals this year. I also want to try many more new things. I am going to take a yoga class, I am going to get in-shape, I am going to meet new people, and I am going to take a sailing class! I have one more new thing, but will have to revel that at a later time. I am scared about it, but excited for this leap of faith!

I am very excited for my new adventures. Probably the most adventurous thing I have done in the 4 new days of the New Year is join a dating Web site. Don’t think I’m desperate, or on a man hunt, or pathetic. I feel that I have a very level head about his and am going to try it for only 6 months. After being single for 5 years, I decided it will be good to connect with other people in the area and keep my relationship priorities in mind. I always told my self when I turned a certain age I would do it. While I have not met that age yet, I just had an overwhelming conviction of I’m not getting any younger and I might as well try it now. You will probably see me blogging mostly about this new experience for a while, but I am excited to see what will come from it and what I will learn about myself.

Stay tuned because new news will be coming soon!