The Online Matchmaking Thing

Last night, I was online and bored. That's a sign something bad could happen. I was chatting with a friend in IM, and he mentioned he had signed up for one of those online matchmaking services. I started thinking, which is sometimes another bad thing. Personality profile? Compatability chart? Sign me up...as long as it's free. It sounded like fun, and I WAS bored...

45 minutes later, I'm still filling out the form for my free personality profile. This profile thing is making me look only slightly less boring and slightly more intelligent than a stick figure. I'm asking my online friends their opinions of me on certain things, and they're not answering me. This is looking VERY promising! (Lots of sarcasm on that last statement.)

Normally, I'm not so introspective. I know who I am and what I like...or do I? Most of my answers are "somewhat", because I'm afraid one extreme or the other might burn the wrong impression of me into some stranger's brain. Then it occurs to me...I'm taking this thing seriously. Maybe too seriously.

I mean, I've met people online and hit it off very well, but not so well once I met them face-to-face. Yet other people I've met online are just as nice and sweet in real life. Unfortunately, some of those meetings didn't lead to the result I would have liked, but that's another story.

I wasted almost and hour and 15 minutes filling out that survey, and I was quite disappointed when I saw I had no "matches" upon answering all of the questions I was asked. I ranted and raved about becoming the "crazy old cat lady down the street", then I went to bed. (Thanks for putting up with that - you know who you are!) I checked my e-mail when I got online a few minutes ago, and I had 7 matches! Not only did I now have matches, but 3 of them live in my state, and 2 of those guys live within an hour's drive of where I live! And 4 men want to open communications with me. Such a big change from no matches last night!

Now that my ego has been soothed and I've been told what kind of person I am, one question remains...Am I going to contact these men? Probably not. I still have a boyfriend, who is in the process of buying me an engagement ring. Does that mean my boyfriend will soon become my husband? Probably not anytime soon, if ever. But that's a story for a different time...