I don't think anyone's really reading this yet but I promise I haven't forgotten! Life has just been super busy for me. I have my next two posts in mind and will be adding them shortly.
~Aurora
Monday, July 26, 2010
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Your Brother is Cuter
So my first man story.....
I left my ex in Feb/March of 2009. By the beginning of April I was over being alone (oh I know...trust me I know how dumb this was) and began trying to figure out where to meet guys. Helloooo I'd been out of the dating scene for 11 years. I had no idea where to start.
Granted I met my ex husband online but that was a whole different scenario back in 1998. People thought you only met psychos in chat rooms (apparently they must have been right....maybe they still are!) So I stumbled across the world of online dating in the 21st century. There are tons and tons of sites out there and a lot of them require you to pay. Well hello, I was a newly single parent, I didn't have money to spend on that kind of stuff.
I came across the various free dating sites and decided to start out with Plentyoffish. It was from this site that I met the first guy I would have feelings for since my husband. We will call him Crush.
Crush and I hit it off right away. We'd spend a long time chatting with each other and that led us into texting.
I should probably point out that I hadn't really texted much up until this point and I most certainly hadn't sent dirty text messages or pictures! But Crush was very much into this. He convinced me to send my first ever naked picture. The thing is he had a way with words! He would tell me how beautiful he thought I was, how my body was sexy and the dirty things he wanted to do to it. Hmmm I still kinda get chills thinkin about it....
We arranged to have a date. Approximately two days before the date he starts saying his car was acting up and he may not be able to make it to our date. For reals? Two days before you can predict your car won't make it to a date? Naive me, I hoped and prayed his car would be okay. Lo and behold, Friday comes and his car was "making a funny noise" so he was gonna have to go get it checked out.
This cancellation was the start of many to come in my future. The best one came when I tried to reschedule with him.
The following Friday I tried to set up another date. He didn't agree to it but he didn't disagree. Finally on Wednesday he said "I just remembered that I promised my brother I would help him with something." I was thinking to myself "So you'd rather spend Friday night with your brother, who you live with, than come out on a date with me and probably get lucky?" Let's face it girls....at that point I was gonna put everything out there right away. Divorced chicks go crazy! So I said to him "Gee your brother must be cuter than me!" He, of course, disagreed (thank goodness--don't even want to think about how THAT conversation could have gone!)
I found out a couple days later that there wasn't anything wrong with his car--he had it checked out and it was nothing.
Gee--are you surprised?
~Aurora
I left my ex in Feb/March of 2009. By the beginning of April I was over being alone (oh I know...trust me I know how dumb this was) and began trying to figure out where to meet guys. Helloooo I'd been out of the dating scene for 11 years. I had no idea where to start.
Granted I met my ex husband online but that was a whole different scenario back in 1998. People thought you only met psychos in chat rooms (apparently they must have been right....maybe they still are!) So I stumbled across the world of online dating in the 21st century. There are tons and tons of sites out there and a lot of them require you to pay. Well hello, I was a newly single parent, I didn't have money to spend on that kind of stuff.
I came across the various free dating sites and decided to start out with Plentyoffish. It was from this site that I met the first guy I would have feelings for since my husband. We will call him Crush.
Crush and I hit it off right away. We'd spend a long time chatting with each other and that led us into texting.
I should probably point out that I hadn't really texted much up until this point and I most certainly hadn't sent dirty text messages or pictures! But Crush was very much into this. He convinced me to send my first ever naked picture. The thing is he had a way with words! He would tell me how beautiful he thought I was, how my body was sexy and the dirty things he wanted to do to it. Hmmm I still kinda get chills thinkin about it....
We arranged to have a date. Approximately two days before the date he starts saying his car was acting up and he may not be able to make it to our date. For reals? Two days before you can predict your car won't make it to a date? Naive me, I hoped and prayed his car would be okay. Lo and behold, Friday comes and his car was "making a funny noise" so he was gonna have to go get it checked out.
This cancellation was the start of many to come in my future. The best one came when I tried to reschedule with him.
The following Friday I tried to set up another date. He didn't agree to it but he didn't disagree. Finally on Wednesday he said "I just remembered that I promised my brother I would help him with something." I was thinking to myself "So you'd rather spend Friday night with your brother, who you live with, than come out on a date with me and probably get lucky?" Let's face it girls....at that point I was gonna put everything out there right away. Divorced chicks go crazy! So I said to him "Gee your brother must be cuter than me!" He, of course, disagreed (thank goodness--don't even want to think about how THAT conversation could have gone!)
I found out a couple days later that there wasn't anything wrong with his car--he had it checked out and it was nothing.
Gee--are you surprised?
~Aurora
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Poppin The Cherry
Alright so it's my first blog post in the XY Chronicles. Yippee!!
Just want to give a little background on me, more than what was available in the "About Me" section.
I have always been a huge nerd. When I was in school I got almost straight A's and would have had perfect attendance if it weren't for a series of chronic illnesses that kept me in the hospital a lot.
I never really dated in in highschool. I had a string of crushes--most of which started with the letter J!--and I think I really went on one or two official dates the whole time. I was super quiet and shy when it came to guys. Don't ask my mother, she says I'm crazy and that I've always been outgoing. Senility is a lovely thing mother.
I went away to Michigan State University for my freshman year of college. I didn't really date a lot there either. What I DID find was the magical world of chat rooms. There I was able to flirt with boys all I wanted and didn't have to worry about whether or not they'd like me despite my body size.
Oh did I mention I am also a chubby girl? Well I am. I got dangerous curves yo!
I met my (now ex) husband in a chat room at the end of my first semester of college. He was super charming and knew all the right things to say to a naive 18 year old girl with low self esteem! We ended up falling in love a few months later. I look back now and wonder why I ever thought it was possible to fall in love without seeing someone face to face. Anyway we spent a year and a half in a long distance relationship, seeing each other every couple months. I lost my virginity to him in September of 1998. It was so romantic....a beanbag chair on the floor of my dorm room about an hour after I picked him up from the bus station! Okay so it was probably like a lot of your first times (oooh I should do a sharing section about that!) Don't get me wrong, I was in love and it was special in that way. I'm glad it didn't happen in the back seat of a car at prom or in the middle of a field (like my baby sister--yeah it's how we roll in the country!)
Basically I put this all out here because I want you all to know that the good majority of my dating experience came after I left my ex husband. Imagine yourself, nearly 30 years old and learning how to date? Oh yeah. Good times!
So what you'll find here is me learning my way around and navigating through all those fish in the sea. I promise you, I couldn't make this shit up.
-Aurora
Just want to give a little background on me, more than what was available in the "About Me" section.
I have always been a huge nerd. When I was in school I got almost straight A's and would have had perfect attendance if it weren't for a series of chronic illnesses that kept me in the hospital a lot.
I never really dated in in highschool. I had a string of crushes--most of which started with the letter J!--and I think I really went on one or two official dates the whole time. I was super quiet and shy when it came to guys. Don't ask my mother, she says I'm crazy and that I've always been outgoing. Senility is a lovely thing mother.
I went away to Michigan State University for my freshman year of college. I didn't really date a lot there either. What I DID find was the magical world of chat rooms. There I was able to flirt with boys all I wanted and didn't have to worry about whether or not they'd like me despite my body size.
Oh did I mention I am also a chubby girl? Well I am. I got dangerous curves yo!
I met my (now ex) husband in a chat room at the end of my first semester of college. He was super charming and knew all the right things to say to a naive 18 year old girl with low self esteem! We ended up falling in love a few months later. I look back now and wonder why I ever thought it was possible to fall in love without seeing someone face to face. Anyway we spent a year and a half in a long distance relationship, seeing each other every couple months. I lost my virginity to him in September of 1998. It was so romantic....a beanbag chair on the floor of my dorm room about an hour after I picked him up from the bus station! Okay so it was probably like a lot of your first times (oooh I should do a sharing section about that!) Don't get me wrong, I was in love and it was special in that way. I'm glad it didn't happen in the back seat of a car at prom or in the middle of a field (like my baby sister--yeah it's how we roll in the country!)
Basically I put this all out here because I want you all to know that the good majority of my dating experience came after I left my ex husband. Imagine yourself, nearly 30 years old and learning how to date? Oh yeah. Good times!
So what you'll find here is me learning my way around and navigating through all those fish in the sea. I promise you, I couldn't make this shit up.
-Aurora
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