new adventure #1.

A few weeks ago I decided to try my hand at online dating. It wasn't I wasn't getting offers...I was. But it seemed that the (hmm, how do I say it?) caliber of people that were asking me out was exactly what I wasn't looking for. It seemed the hrs I work, or the limited amount of time I'm actualy available, or the kids were always a problem, or they were just drunk weirdo's who came into the ED after a bar fight and looked up at me through their one not busted up eye and declared me "a hot nurse" and asked if I wanted to have a drink.
A friend from work had tried her hand at online dating and is now happily living with the guy of her dreams gave me her advice on the various sites and advise me to be completely honest "If you only want a guy to call you every other Thursday at 5pm, then write it on your profile be honest or you'll never find what you want."
And so I found a site and I registered, payed my fee's and waited..... and the offers started coming in. The requests for comunication, the questions, the "winks," the invitations for dinner. But no body really struck my fancy. I met one guy and we hit it off at first but then I lost interest he lived an hr away and with my limited time that became and issue. Another guy I met for dinner and then the next day he texted (texted!!)that he had decided to "become serious" with a girl he had been out with a few times that he had met on the site. Umm, ok. Just when I had lost interest with the whole thing and hadn't checked my "online matches" for a few days...I got a "flex match" that caught my eye.
Now a flex match is someone who doesn't fit "perfectly" into your must haves and personality match up, but they send to you anyway just so you can't complain you aren't getting any matches in your inbox. It doesn't, however, tell you what about the person isn't a good match. So I sent an icebreaker (which I NEVER do) and said hello and we played the back and forth question game for the required amount of time before finally being able to just speak freely through email. And now, 2 dates and hrs of phone calls later I'm really starting to like him. I mean really like him like him.