eHarmony

Some friends recommended eHarmony to me. They said they knew someone who had met their future mate there. I have had absolutely no luck with dating services. Still, it would be nice to meet an attractive lady with similar interests that I could date. I decided to try them.

I found the questions they ask you interesting. Throught the questions, they try to get an idea of just what you're like. Sometimes, it works and sometimes it doesn't. I don't know where they came up that I was very emotional. I don't think I am.

I put down that bible doctrine tapes were very important to me. They are. I've been listening to them for years and, they've really helped me. Apparently putting something like that got me tagged and, all the matches I got were very religious women. I do want a woman who believes in Jesus Christ but, I don't want one who wants to do missionary work or wants to talk about how she was "saved." To me, that is holy roller stuff and, I don't care for holy rollers.

Another item that is important to me attractiveness. The reason I quit other dating sites is because of the unattractiveness of their members. To my great annoyance, eHarmony has been the same way. I've seen only 1 lady out of 50 that I thought attractive and, she was already in a relationship. Because of this, I checked into the cancellation policy.

I found out that if you want to get your money back, you must cancel within 3 days. As I didn't, if I cancel now, I'm out $198. Damn!

I decided to take out any references to faith or Jesus Christ. I'm curious to see what kind of matches I'll get now. If they don't get any better, I'm going to cancel though I'll be ticked about wasting $198. We'll see what happens. Stay tuned.

OkCupid Update

I finally gave up on OkCupid. I got tired of them trying to match me up with women older than I am or women that were terminally ugly. Also, the site is rife with liberals. While most of the time this didn't cause me a problem, I got tired with the Sarah Palin bashing that is raging on the site. In my opinion, she is a wonderful woman and a very smart pick for Vice President by John McCain. I never would've thought he would've picked her. She has done wonders for electrifying the conservative base in the Republican Party as well as caused a serious dilemma for Barack Hussein Obama. Obama passed over Hillary Clinton for his V.P. pick as well as some other qualified female Democratic Party members. I'm sure the women in the Democratic Party are giving him no small amount of grief over that.

Anyway, maybe, I'll give Conservativematch.Com another try once I get back from my trip to France. We'll see. Cheers all!

Ok Cupid Update

I've continued to answer more questions and rate more ladies on Ok Cupid. The site has continued to surprise me. One of the ladies I had to rate was a real DOMINATRICE. That's a women who wears leather, treats you like crap, expects you to obey her and in the process some how you'll be sexually stimulated by that. I confess I can't understand how somehow could get off being humiliated but, the world is filled with lots of WEIRD people so it's possible. I'm not one of them so I quickly rated the lady a 1 (that being the worst you can rate someone) and quickly moved on. I suspect my readers would've had a good laugh at my reaction when the lady's bio first came. My eyes really bugged on that one.

I have no idea how well Christians are represented on this site BUT, I got another surprise by all the Wiccan practicers. What equally surprised me was how many of them apparently go the Maryland Renaissance Festival. Hm. I'd suspected as much but this site has confirmed it. It'll be a trip if I recognize some of them when I go to the festival this year.

That sums up all the surprised I've had since my last post. I have enjoyed posting some comments on some of the member's journals (blogs) there. I like good conversation and the posts there are a form of conversation. I still have little hope I'll actually meet someone there I'd actually like to take out. I suspect my job at the Post Office doesn't help me any as I doubt any of the ladies there are impressed by my job. Oh well. Stay tuned for further updates on this too.

OK Cupid

I've been filling in my bio, adding a few photos and answering more questions on http://www.okcupid.com/. It's a free site where you can make new friends, find a possible date or maybe find someone to have sex with. I found the sex angle on the site somewhat shocking. They ask a lot questions about sex. I suspect there are some really weird people on that site. Still, it has its good points. I've been very impressed by how many single ladies it has in the Maryland, Washington D.C. and Northern Virginia area. I don't know what my chances are of meeting some of them. I will confess I'm picky. I want attractive and I won't settle for less. I'm content to keep going it alone if it means I have to compromise. I know a woman is more than looks and believe me, I take their personality into account too. I never forgot a date I had years ago with a stunner. Her personality stunk and the date was a massive dud. Another problem I suspect I'll run into is kids. I'm not real keen on becoming an instant dad because she has kids of her own. I think it's hard enough to make a relationship work without that addition of kids and ex's. Still, a lot women my age is likely to have them. Lastly, me and my gut are going to have to do battle. My job at the Post Office hasn't helped my weight situation. I'm subject to being called in on short notice and I can never be sure how long I'll have to work. That plays hell with my diet. I can eat a light breakfast and then not get home for 9 hours. By the time I get home, I'm starving and I overeat. My step-mom has suggested I carry snacks to re-energize myself but when I'm doing a route, I don't want to stop till I'm done. Also, after a long day at the Post Office, I don't feel like exercising. I hit the elliptical machine today for the first time in months. Boy, I was out of shape. I set it for level 5 and managed to last 25 minutes. My heart rate soared. Oh well. We'll see how it goes. Stay tuned.