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        <link href="http://www.chicagosinglelife.com/archives/14-Tried-Out-Text-Message-Dating-For-The-First-Time.html" rel="alternate" title="Tried Out Text Message Dating For The First Time" />
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            <name>Ryan</name>
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        <published>2010-05-31T04:21:38Z</published>
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                I've been toying with stepping into text message dating... Basically it's similar to internet chatting except that you deliver text messages and get to get together new people that way. I considered it'd be entertaining to try it out because I am just always working with my Blackberry. I eventually signed up to <a target=_blank href="http://www.chicagosinglelife.com/smsdating.php">TextNDate</a> and tried it out. A buddy of mine sent me the link through Yahoo messenger and really hyped it up, so i decided what the heck.<br />
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Right away I met this girl Michelle from River North. The lady sounded really cool, turns out we are into many of the exact same tv shows and movies, and are around the same age. We basically made plans to go out next week for dinner so I'm going to post how it went (of course, if getting together with girls using your cellular really will work).<br />
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I found tons of different people also, quite a few promising plus some kinda odd, nevertheless I made a decision to only give attention to a few because it really is a good deal to keep track of! I wish I could figure out how to consolidate my contacts on my phone, that'd make this a bunch less difficult to deal with. There are an amazing quantity of young women living in Chicago from which to choose.<br />
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The very best part about that was I can send out casual texts even while I was on the job, at the grocery store, anything, the same as I had been messaging my friends... From time to time being riveted to the pc becomes exhausting you know? I had a fairly interesting convo with this one girl even though I was in a checkout line even! Anyhow for anyone who is interested in learning everything <a target=_blank href="http://www.chicagosinglelife.com/smsdating.php">click the link to visit Text N Date</a>, You need to for certain. 
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            <name>Ryan</name>
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        <published>2010-05-12T15:00:00Z</published>
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                Hi everyone and happy mothers day to all the mothers out there even though I am a few days late on that one sorry lol.  I have been very busy with work and stuff lately so I haven't had much time for dating and for updating this blog.  I have had some success with the online dating thing.  I am starting to get sick and tired of meeting new women and then spending all the time it takes to get to know them to see if there is any compatibility only to meet them in real life and then not like them then have to start all over again.  What I have been finding lately is that I am meeting these women online and then they say they have an average body shape and they take pictures at weird angles or pics of just their faces which do look good but then when I meet them in real life they are basically fat.  Ok, maybe fat is being too harsh but lots of them are chubby and that is not what I am attracted to.  I like girls that are thin, I do not like girls that are chubby.  This may sound harsh but I have noticed that the thinner a woman is the better her vagina smells.  Yes that is right, chubby girls have stinky pussies <img src="http://www.chicagosinglelife.com/templates/default/img/emoticons/sad.png" alt=":-(" style="display: inline; vertical-align: bottom;" class="emoticon" /><br />
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The other thing that has been pissing me off lately is that there were two girls I was chatting with that mentioned that bad breath was a turn off of theirs.  Duh, who doesn't have that as a turn off.  I am always quite conscientious about my breath and I make sure I have mints or gum with me all the time and I recognize that when I drink coffee or other things it will make your breath smell like shit.  The part that has been pissing me off is the fact that both of these girls had bad breath a few times when I was kissing them and I was like wtf the audacity of these girls to list that as a turn off.  There are a multitude of things that women do that are very hypocritical.  I am starting to wonder if I will ever find someone who fits all the physical criteria that I like and at the same time actually likes the same types of things that I do.  Damn it is windy outside right now.  I have been going on bike rides lately as a form of cardio but when the wind blows this strong it is totally crappy and I don't want to go.  There has been a few times where I was going downhill and the wind was blowing in my face and it felt like I was barely moving at all.<br />
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Let me tell you about one of the girls I have been working on.  I met her last week just before the weekend and we went through the usual scenario where we exchange a few messages on the online dating site and then eventually start to chat on MSN.  Her name is Kelly and she is very big into working out, so much so that she is kind of muscular.  It is not that I don't like muscular women... I would just prefer someone who is thin.  I like thin girls.  The good thing is that she is not fat.  She is basically average but muscular.  She has a 6 pack and doesn't seem to have much fat but she is not thin.  I told her we should meet for coffee because that is how I roll these days.  There is this cool little coffee house here in Chicago called Bronzeville Coffee and Tea, Inc. that I told her to meet me at.  I got there a bit late and she was already sitting down.  I went over and introduced myself with a dry ass hand shake then we sat and chatted.  She was pretty attractive but I wanted to see more of her body.  I should have got there early so I could have watched her walk in and shit.  We chatted for a few hours and then we parted company.  I really have no idea how it went.  It ended with a handshake and I have yet to hear from her since then.<br />
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        <link href="http://www.chicagosinglelife.com/archives/12-The-world-I-know.html" rel="alternate" title="The world I know" />
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            <name>Ryan</name>
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        <published>2010-04-18T12:10:00Z</published>
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                The world I know, is a world too slow.  Sometimes I think I am hyperactive.  I think it has something to do with using a computer everyday for the last 20+ years and also spending a lot of time watching tv and movies.  I feel like I have permanently conditioned my brain to require constant visual stimulation.  I dream a lot every night and my dreams are extremely vivid and realistic.  I also remember my dreams when I wake up in the morning.  I have a met a good amount of people in my lifetime and I have observed that not many people dream and remember their dreams.  For me, whatever the last thing I do before I go to sleep is what I dream about.  Sometimes that is good but usually it is frustrating.  I have noticed that since I joined the online dating site, I have a tendency to spend a few hours before I go to sleep each night going through the site and looking at the new girls that joined etc and then I dream about women which isn't too bad <img src="http://www.chicagosinglelife.com/templates/default/img/emoticons/smile.png" alt=":-)" style="display: inline; vertical-align: bottom;" class="emoticon" />  The worst thing I can do is do something that involves a lot of thought before I sleep like working, or video games, or a game like poker etc.  I wish I could meet a girl that was more like me.  I am having a hard time finding girls that share a lot of things with me in common.  I find girls and I have SOME things in common but not a lot.  Maybe that is a reflection on me.  Maybe I just have a shitty personality.<br />
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At any rate, I AM having some decent success with the whole online dating thing.  I redid my online profile and I tried to be as honest as possible because I think that is where I messed up in the past.  I wasn't totally honest with the girl I was with.  Eventually things went sour because the real me showed through.  So I am trying to show the whole real me now and my attitude is take it or leave it.  I will not get hung up on the ones that get away.  I just need to chill and let them go because it would have meant that things would turn out shitty.  I was talking to someone last night and I think they may have identified my major problem. When I meet a girl, if I think that she is physically attractive, I tend to look past their personality, even if we have nothing in common.  In fact, for me, the physical aspect is the most important and I think that is the problem.  I don't even picture them as a friend etc - I just think romantically the whole time.  I think I need to try and find a girl that I can be friends with first and then see how things develop.  Maybe I am just weak or immature - I am really not sure why I am like this.  I am going to however start to look for girls that I would be friends with.  When I think about, my ex girlfriend who I was with for a long time.  I would never want to be her friend.  I think that says a lot.<br />
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Anyways, on Wed night I met this girl Trudy for dinner.  She is a nice girl that works in a hospital as a nurse.  She is 27 and she has no kids thank god.  That is another thing, I keep hooking up with girls who have kids thinking I won't care and they won't complicate things but they always do sigh.  So yeah I took a taxi to this restaurant called Mccormick &amp; Schmick's Seafood.  I arrived a bit late and she was already there sipping a glass of wine.  She stood up and we shook hands etc.  I ordered some wine too and we drank and talked a lot.  The food was pretty good, I don't even remember what I ordered.  As we were sitting there, I realized that I really didn't have a lot in common with this girl, but I was physically attracted to me.  I THOUGHT things were going well because it seemed like she was giving me indicators of interest however at some point she said, well dinner was great thanks but I have to think about getting home and getting into bed because I have to get up early tomorrow.  I was like wtf ok.  So I asked her what she thought of me and then more poignantly if she was attracted to me.  She said "not overally"...   check please.  We left there pretty quick and I shook her hand and stuffed her into a taxi and let it go.  I then grabbed my own taxi and rode home all pissed off.  When I got home, I drowned my sorrows in a bottle of Jack Daniels.  Bah women.  I am trying not to take the rejection personally but it's easier said then done.<br />
 
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