Day 01 - Relationship Status

I saw that Simi plans on doing this 30 Day Challenge and I figured I would like to jump on the bandwagon since...you know...I'm such a follower.  It will give you all an opportunity to learn more about me and it will give me an opportunity to explore myself.  Win/Win?  We shall see!

I won't be actually doing one of these a day as I think it would be a bit too post-y.  I don't have a tendency to blog every day anyway and I have some trips coming up and wouldn't be able to maintain it even if I tried.  So, what that means is that I will go down the list and write about a couple of the challenges a week.

Here is the list of challenges:

Day 01-  Your current relationship, if single discuss how single life is.

Current relationship = single/dating
Single life sucks.
and....discuss:

Well, I've been single for quite some time now.  I wish I could say "single and lovin' it", but I'd be lying.  Everyone says to embrace these days - this freedom.  I do.  It's just that the single life for someone who has always wanted to be married and to have children is a lonely existence.  Up until VERY recently, most of my weekends were spent at home A-L-O-N-E, feeling sorry for myself.

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A year or so ago, my mom said to me, "Kim, I know you are waiting for Prince Charming to just come knocking on your door, but do you think you could meet him halfway somewhere?"  Ouch.

It's really hard to meet someone these days.  I can't meet anyone at work.  All of my local buddies are coupled up and none of them have any single friends to even try and play the matchmaker game.  I'm no barfly, so this means I've relied mostly on internet dating over the past few years.  EHarmony and I are basically mortal enemies - see here, here, and here for proof.  I'm currently on my second go-around with Match.com.  The first time didn't fare so well - see here for proof.  BUT, alas...this second time around is getting interesting.  ;)  I've tried posting Craig's List ads.  Though I vowed to never go that route again because of the number of married men out there seeking an affair (I'm quite the Nancy Drew, don't ya know?!), I did meet a couple of nice guys who I briefly dated, BUT I also met some total weirdos.  I even tried a dating group to meet guys called Eight Friends Out.  See here for an example of what a disaster that was for me.

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Have you ever seen the movie Some Kind of Wonderful?  If you haven't, you should.  It was one of my dad's message movies - that is a movie my dad saw and decided all of us kids needed to see to get the message.  The message, in this case, was that it is better to be alone for the right reasons than with someone for the wrong.  I've applied this a time or two in my day.

Oh and something that really irks me is when people say it will happen when I least expect it.  I got into the whole dating game VERY late in life.  I least expected it for a long, long time is my point and not a whole lot has happened.  Time will tell though, friends.  Time will tell.  I remain hopeful, no worries.

So, your challenge should you choose to accept it is to join me in this 30 Day Challenge.