Where have all the fit, interesting and available men gone (part 27)

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part 27? good god

lou

:( Lou.

I could do with a quick scream and foot stamping.

No real reason. Just pissed off with the world.

i am in a somewhat shit mood tonight

reminding myself to breathe and relax and not go out at midnight slaying witless souls who just happen to be passing

hello lovely ladies!

i had tried (what certainly seems like)almost all internet dating sites and each time, flounced off after a week or so with little or no interest and joined OKC two nights ago, after hearing of it mentioned ^^upthread.

no pictures of disembodied-peni-by-way-of-introduction as yet and a couple of actually fairly intelligent conversations with what appear to be (oh god!) nice men. i like it!

did had to turn down a 23 year old chap who wanted to make my face 'wet' though. funny howsome guys think of internet dating as an even cheaper option than going to a pub and buying a couple of drinks

Hi, can I jump in? Been single for 6 months (from a short term relationship) and 5 years (from a long term one.)

I live in a very sparsley populated area, don't meet any men at work (there are 2 in the office but one's engaged and one's an odd-bod),I never go out as all my friends are married or coupled up and never want to go out.

online dating just isn't getting me anywhere - I'm on POF and smooch - tried OKC and there were only 3 men from my area?

too tight to pay for match, and only 5 pages of results from my area anyway so not really worth paying for.

Starting to get to me a bit now, pushing 40 and still on my own - not sure what else I can do to improve my chances!!

Welcome persephonesnape and aristomache!

As I'm in London I can't offer any advice on how to find a bloke when there are so few to choose from, there's plenty around here (some of them are even good looking AND normal).

My experience was that free sites attracted those who wanted something rather different from those who were prepared to pay to meet up, but I know others have succeeded with OKC etc.

One thing that seems to work is not staying on one site too long, but site hopping after a month or so so that you continually widen the search. Between September and now I used four different sites, and also played the numbers game (meeting several guys over a short period) although if men are in short supply I guess that's not an option.

So, good luck to you both. I'm off to the Dorchester tonight with my new man (he was on Lovestruck but no more because I've snapped him up!)

thanks for the welcome and go you!! have fun tonight

Morning and hi new posters.

I am in a better mood today. So far. . . .

Hi new posters, I am not best placed to advise as I only dated 2 blokes within a couple of weeks in Sept/Oct and seem to be sailing off into the sunset with the second, TLM

Lilac, woohoo, have a fabulous time at the Dorchester, can't wait to hear all about it

Lou re Ds2

Am full of cold and my downstairs loo started backing up last night due to sewage blockage .....so that's nice
On the plus side, TLM is on hand outside with the drains bloke sorting it all so I can't reslly complain. Thank god for TLM in soooooooo many ways

Haven't wrapped anything yet and have still got cake to ice and mince pies to make but apart from that am completely on the ball

i may well make some mince pies tomorrow

i got a handful of post just now

no nisi, but my old solicitor sent me back my marriage certificate

and he exh is quiet so all is good

think i may go have a nice extra hot bath to descale myself

lou hope you got a relaxing bath

hello to newcomers :)

Office secret santa today. I received a stress willy.

My face was like this

hi aristomache and persephonesnape

@ sponge - I'm not sure I even want to ask what a stress willy is ...

a man just sent me a long narrative about whether i might lower myself onto an ornamental marble egg, whilst wearing a long skirt in a public place.

internet dating is clearly the best! you can apply a 'weird guy' filter at the earliest opportunity.

I'm actually engaging in conversation - from a purely psychological experimentation point of view. :)

...and thank you 'regulars' for such a warm welcome :)

Haven't had chance to read up but hi to new ones.

Went to a mates last night and got absolutely drunk!!! Been in bed most of the day and am off out for a meal with DD, Dsis and my two DN's so am going to drive to prove I can have a good time without drinking. Wish me luck

Nothing happening on the man front.

Hi All, Just catching up and welcome to new posters.

Have just got back home from mums for probably the last time until we clear her house. A sad feeling as the place is packed with memories. We have agreed we will tackle it in the new year at a time when we all feel up to it. SIL who is a darling, has agreed to start on the less personla stuff for us.

So now just got to get up early tomorrow and go get christmas dinner for us all. We have lots of snow so we are planning lots of fun things to do!

Nothing much happening on the dating front here. Not a word from radioman all week, which I am a bit pissed off about tbh as he knows it has been a shit week for me - guess that tells me everthing I need to know about him at this stage

University man is coming up for lunch after christmas, really looking forward to meeting again - its been over 20 years!

Hope you are all well out there and father christmas is kind to you. Have a couple of little presents from girlfriends under the tree so at least I also have something to un wrap on christmas morning.

Sending you all warm festive wishes

i ended up dying my roots and having a shower, which has improved my mood as i now dont have 4 months worth of grey hair peeking through

also i managed to do xmas food shopping this evening instead of tomorrow, and got a few bits to start the stockings with, which is all i have to go out for tomorrow

also dp is leaving me his bank card again tomorrow, and i am under instruction to use it to finish the stockings off, plus give the kids a certain amount of money to buy some gifts from them, and he has told them what he wants them to get for me from himself (he has literally had no time to do anything but work and sleep), as he will be working until after the shops shut tomorrow

i couldnt get a xmas pudding though :(

he took the present -I- we picked for his mum to her this evening, and had dinner with her, then came to see me, and she has bought us some presents, bless her, so he brought them with him, though he blurted out to me what he thought one of them was lol

dd1 is off out as she needs cheering up, so dp has just paid for a taxi both ways and given her some cash to go meet her friends in town for a drink

two nights out in a row, she went on a date with a new boy last night too, which seemed to go well

no dramas so far for me, though i saw my friend and her on/off dp earlier, and he is recovering from an unprovoked sustained attack in guildford last night by a group of drunken fuckos

he cant remember it at all, he just remembers waking up in the ambulance

my friend was not with him, and it was caught on cctv so the police have arrested the men involved, but he is all cut and stitched, seems to have been all directed at his head, but luckily nothing broken

and even worse, dd1's friend was sexually assaulted last night, though we dont know to what extent, but it appears to be quite serious, hence why she is upset and needed cheering up and to be with her other friends for a bit this evening

not a good christmas for them :(

if i start moaning about being stressed, i will remind myself it could be worse

just as well he cant remember i guess

can i just add that i just got another email from the exh, acting like nothing has happened, trying to sort out seeing dd2 for her birthday

i have left dd2 to decide what she wants, telling her to do what she wants and not to worry about how myself or her father get on, because its her day and i wont let there be any trouble

i have even said if she wants him to come here briefly so she doesnt have to split up her day, then i would put up with be ok with that

the way he flicks from trying to be mr reasonable to being mr prizeprick is quite impressive

typical of him though

Will try and catch up tomorrow.

Just finished wrapping and had horrible stomach churning realisation that I am waking up alone on xmas day. :( I know it will bw better than last year (cracks were very much beginning...) but still... I don't want to.

Not helped by falling more for Carrot by the day (I am allowed the odd mention ). Tonight he was apologizing as his DB will probably give him call of duty and he knows I hate it due to XH addiction. He's within his rights to play any games he wants!!! Damn him.

Mate hopefully round tomorrow evening. Mum's for xmas afternoon. Drop off DC and come home to Dr Who and probably drown sorrows. Boxing day morning see Carrot (because that is standard just friends behaviour ). Then get short ones back and prob back to my Mum's.

Tis the season to be manic
tra la la la la la la la la

Rushing round doing things in a panic
tra la la etc
...
Why oh why am I not feeling jolly
Could it be because I'm sitting on the holly

As usual my knickers are getting in a twist
Sod it, going to get merry if not pissed!

Soon be full of seasonal cheer
But I'm glad it's just once a year!

morning

Morning all

MZ, loving the festive ditty

Elasta, warm festive wishes back to you, I hope you have a lovely Christmas with your family round you - all your thoughts of your mum will be good ones ((((((()))))))

Lou at attacks/assualts, too right about counting blessings, and what a star your DP is, hope you have a great time over the next few days

Sponge, stress willy.......

just looking in
wishing you all a v happy xmas
elasta my thoughts are with you and dcs x

Merry Christmas to everyone. X

Afternoon all

Hope everyone is okay and looking forward to - or at least prepared for - tomorrow.

I have got a second date with theatreman next week - going to see some comedy thing on Tuesday ....

and have found out that Mrbetterbeworthitafterwaitingfiveyears (yup!) is a good friend of a very good friend's best friend - and is apparently a very nice guy - just wish he lived nearer - and wondering whether to send him a txt wishing him a merry xmas ....