As I mentioned in my last entry, 2011 ended with several ex-boyfriends getting engaged. Well, 2012 is here and has already made me say “come on!” several times in a mere two weeks.
* Side note: To put it bluntly, I have finally come to the conclusion that I need to start really seeing what is available to me in the dating world and putting myself out there. I have convinced myself that I will be pleasantly surprised.
Update 1: Since I’ve decided to put it out there (and have recently seen the movie What’s Your Number? I got inspired to give some people I may have blown off a second look). Back story… when I was in college, my male cousin and I went to the same school and he scared all of his friends into not dating me. They were all athletes and hot. Finally, one of them, who was physically way bigger than my cousin, finally grew some balls and asked me out my senior year. Cute guy, super nice, but no real spark. Over the last 10 years we’ve remained good friends… drinks every so often, and I even stayed in touch when he went to work abroad. We had plans to go out the first week of January and I thought I’d finally put it out there and see if we could give this a go. Yes, I told you guys I was getting BOLD. We had a plan to get together for happy hour last Friday. Our texts went something like this.
Him: Sorry, can’t do Friday anymore.
Me: Ok, no big deal – when works?
Him: Not sure… busy next weekend. Girl I’m dating is coming into town.
Me: That’s new news! So much for my chance with ya! 
Him: Yay, I’m dating GFC (Girl from college – yes, someone I know and used to hang out with. We’re now fb friends). Come on, Emily. You were never interested in me.
Me: You never made a move and why else would I have stayed in touch with you for the last 10 years?
Him: Well, that sucks. Gotta run… headed out.
Me: Seriously?
So, I threw it out there and that is what I got back. Yes, this all should not have gone down via text message, but I was pissed, hurt and my ego was a little bruised.
Update #2 – The Sexter!
Quick recap – the Sexter and I used to sext. That’s it. Nothing physical ever happened. The sexting ended when he started dating a big mouth blonde and got engaged a few months later. In the last few months he has moved in with her (now lives 6 blocks from my house in one city) and has also moved his office which is now across the street from mine (in a different city). How do I know this you ask? He told me and feels the need to message me EVERY time I’m on Facebook. (Which is all the time because I work in pr and social media marketing). So, for now, the game plan is IGNORE and we’ll see what happens. (Oh crap… he just FB messegnered me and said he is stopping by! WHY???) But, I feel so sorry for this poor girl he is marrying! I think emotional infidelity is almost as bad as the physical kind and I hate to be any part of it. Ugh.
So, that’s the start to my year… On a good note, I have a date tonight (I sneak to the potty and live tweet during my dates – are you following me? @MyLifeOnMatch), one this weekend and maybe I’ll even ask one of those hot guys at the gym out this year (In LA it’s just so hard to tell which ones are gay and which ones are straight let alone who is single!). I’m going WILD. I’m ready to put myself out there and see who’s willing to grab!
