Am I being too fussy?

[salizchap]

OK, after the passing of yet another waste of space relationship, I have put a new profile on POF in the ever unrealistic optimistic hope of atracting mr right.

Is it me? 4 men have contacted me recently. Although I specifically say on my profile that I only want to date locally, the first man lives 200 miles away. The second just looks miserable and doesn't smile in any of his 10 pics. The third is unattractive and only writes 2 lines in his profile. The fourth is ok in his pic but his ortography, spelling and punctuation is awful.

None has an interesting or well paid job (full time student, lorry driver, shop worker, unemployed). I would like, for a change, date a professional man who might be able to treat me occasionally, especially as a lone parent I struggle to make ends meet. I am fed up of landing blokes who are worse with finances than me and just make my life more complicated.

Am I expecting too much? Am I being a job snob?

Emailing with a couple of guys but not holding out much hope to be honest....not sure that I can be bothered once again . Hoping it is just post Christmas blues, felt very down spending two weeks off work alone...onwards and upwards though.

Well, says it all really....spotted a very nice looking guy from my home town..result I thought...added him to my faves until I could think of a stunning opening email....checked later and he had deleted me without even looking at my profile .

Just had 'odd' message on PoF from a guy who hasn't looked at my profile, he has no photo. His user name is and he has signed it with medallion mans name but spelt slightly different. He started his message -Boo then goes on..evening (at 9am???). I removed myself from medallion mans fave list so can't see if/when he is on line. Or am I just a bit paranoid .

I feel a shiney/penguin boy set up coming on .

OOO I would love that. I'd totally be there to watch! I wonder wether it's the time of year for people who are, erm, maybe not best suited to dating just yet, being online? I know of 2 friends who broke up over christmas and immediately set up dating profiles. Not healthy at all. All poorly here tonight, man is coming to revel in my misery I'm goign to see if rum will help...

You ill again Boo?

Interesting what you say about the Christmas split ups, will bear that in mind.

I think I was perhaps just paranoid...replied to odd email with "evening ?!?!? and he has been on line but not replied..., not sure there is a bird sanctuary in our neck of the woods anyway .

Blimey what an oddball. I'm not too bad, the rum seems to have helped , dd has been ill and I have a bit of a headcold, that's all. My nan (who is really dd's dad's nan but I've known her for years) called up all giddy the other day as they will be moving into her sister's bungalow as soon as the tenants leave next month, and it has 2 spare rooms. Bizarrely it's the house where dd's dad lived when she was little, and the current tenant is his old housemate. She's in a teeny maisonette at the moment with my grandad, and they're so excited and they want us all (dp, me and the dc) to go and stay at Easter. Seems very far off but it would be so nice. They adored him when they met him before christmas :)

obviously the rum was purely for medicinal purposes only .

Plans already for Easter already, have you mentioned it to dp yet?

Not yet. We were a bit, erm, busy
I think he'll go for it though. I'll mention it tomorrow when he comes over. He's watching football with his friends tonight, and I'm clearing away all the stuff still left over from Christmas. No replies from Medallion man? If I were you I'd take a snap of you in a giant gold chain and then send him a cheeky message to see if that sparks his interest

busy eh .

MedallionMan seems to have disappeared but I will bear in mind your photo suggestion .

Odball just messaged me with...fancy a drink tonight? .

What at 7pm??
Reply tomorrow and ask if he knows you are JaquiChan. Don't you have a different profile now??

yes....fancy a drink tonight????? odd.

How's the romance going .

ok, this will make more sense if I tell you that MedallionMan was called Glen.....oddball's first email to me was signed off Glenn .

Romance is all go :) We're staying in for a posh(ish) meal tonight with some wine as we don't really get to go out much. It doesn't bother us really, I like the cosiness of curling up on the sofa, but it will be nice to sit at a table with some candles, wine and cheesy music
Medallion man is blowing hot and cold. The horrible side of me wants to tell you to egg him on just for laughs. But you're probably best to leave well alone. Have you thought of setting up a new profile? Apparently some men pay more attention to new profiles iyswim?

Boo, you are one of the snuggle up on the sofa with a dvd types then . So glad everything is going well ,

Well not totally sure that Oddball is MM but I'm ignoring and once again I have changed my mind about what I want....have been seriously depressed over Christmas and have decided that hell, I want a proper, grown up relationship , so yes, guess I will sort a new profile and see what happens.