Dear Kelsie, this is for you.

Dear Kelsie (and all of the rest of you crazy folks who think my dating life is "interesting"),

This is for you. Enjoy. 

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After a loooooooong hiatus, I've re-entered the blog-o-sphere.  Does anyone blog anymore?  Anyone other than mommy bloggers with excessive income-producing hyperlinks, I mean?

I guess I am.  And here's why: I recently joined the online dating world. (Side note: I'm going to leave the old title as-is, though, that seems like a lot of effort to change. They don't teach that fancy technology stuff in tooth school.)

I don't even really know how to begin this story.  There wasn't any real reason to join an online dating website, other than the fact that I am home at my parents' house for the holidays, and they go to bed early.  As in, leaving me alone at about 8:30 to stare at the small conglomerate of dogs and/or watch TV, but at a volume that is not loud enough to disturb them.  (Oh, and for those that haven't been here, Jonesboro's not a very happening place. So please don't judge that I'm sitting alone on the couch with the dogs.) So I saw one of those "try it, you'll like it!" commercials and decided to see what the fuss was all about.

So here I am, roughly 20 hours into the online dating game.  

The road that got me here is long and full of other equally awful dating experiences, with a few good ones and even a couple of semi-relationships.  (That's another post entirely. Stay tuned.) But alas, I just turned 29, and in the South that's considered ancient, well past child bearing age, and obviouslythereissomethingwrongwithme. (Please visit a Baptist any church tomorrow morning and you'll see what I mean.) My refrigerator is covered in Christmas cards of friends and their adorable babies, and I sent one out of my dogs.  See what I mean? (They are ridiculously adorable, though, definitely Christmas-card worthy.)

To end this exciting re-entry into the blogging world, I'll sum up what I've learned so far.

1. Most men out there are creepers. As in StrangerDanger!

2. This is going to be a full-time job.  I'm not sure I'm up for it, but I'll give it the old college try.

3. This is/already has produced a lot of funny stories.  At least I'll have some interesting things to share with all of the old married ladies mid-twenties girls with 1.5 children at work.

Here's to romance,

Beth