4 Dozen Cookies And 8 Pies

Welcome to The Dating Daytripper.

I decided today that I was going to start a blog about my adventures in dating. As with many of my life decisions, I ran it by Facebook for input from my vast array of "friends". Not regarding IF I was going to do the blog, but rather what I should call it. My favorite suggestion was from my former morning show partner, to call it "4 Dozen Cookies And 8 Pies". I loved this because the story behind it is wonderful insight into my personality.  Once, a relatively new boyfriend of mine was having a birthday soon and had remarked to me the previous birthday had been the worst of his life. As always, I jumped in with both feet and decided it was my personal responsibility to make this the BEST birthday ever! His one day was extended into an entire week of gifting. By the end of that week I had given him: 4 dozen cookies, multiple pies (I still hold firm that 8 is an exaggeration), flowers, cupcakes, and IPod and his favorite CD. This is very indicative of my all or nothing personality. If I am doing to do it, I am going to DO IT. Therefore, the very title of this entire blog, Dating Daytripper is my attempt at personal reform. I am not taking the world tour of dating, just taking the little day trips of dating and reporting back. 

I joined a dating website on Saturday. I have done this before, but this one is more interesting to me because it made me answer a ton of questions, then it judges me. See the graph below, the middle is normal.

While I know this isn't quite scientific, I don't find fault with their results. I do however see the humor in the fact that I am way below the norm in the romantic department. After putting my personality into a graph, it then tells me how similar all other people on the site are to me. This is based on how many questions that they answered as I did. I am shooting for at least 70 percent similar before agreeing to go out with someone. Unless they are hot. Really hot. Just kidding. But here is the interesting thing. I very rarely have people my own age reaching out to me on this site, the average age is about 27. I guess people think this cougar thing is a real phenomenon. I am going to be a disappointment on that front. On the positive side for them, I look just like my picture (it's brand new), I am sure that almost never happens.

This seemed like a perfect time to start dating again to me, quite simply because I don't care. I mean that in the best way. I'm happy, finally. I don't need someone, so I really don't take it personally when a guy isn't interested. Any outcome is interesting to me. I love to study humanity, and what better way is there to do just that than dating?

I am starting easy with my first date tonight, 29 year old Junior at Starbucks. This date was set up before I set my specifications of 70% similar. He is only 35% similar, and he's 29. Let the adventure begin, and as the picture above states, there will be no whining here!