Author: elsims

I had to slide this post end before the end of this year. And I mean, I am barely making it. I ought to be ashamed of myself, and I am a little bit 😆.

This will be my last Dating Diaries for a while. I have to be honest with myself and you, I just can’t do this shit right now. I guess I don’t want it enough. If I did, I would put more energy and time into it. I have currently had my profile on snooze for the last 3 months and I’m just going to delete it. Maybe sometime next year I will focus on dating.

This Dating Diaries story is kinda old. It happened back in August. I wrote it out, but it was long. So I never published it. Yet, it is such a good story, I felt I had to share it. Except, I did a terrible job at telling it. I can’t tell y’all how many times I started, stopped, and started it again. The finished product was me giving up 😆. I couldn’t do it anymore. I thought about recording it again, but I remembered the trauma from that day. So here is the video.

And here is a blooper reel.

Believe me, I could have included an hour of bloopers, but I will spare y’all from second hand embarrassment 😳😂.

Anyway, I hope you are bringing in the new year in a way that makes you happy. Whether it is sitting at home watching TV, in church, at a party, or sleeping. I hope you are doing exactly what you want to do. Be well and whole. Happy New Year’s Eve 🍾. Much love 🧡💚

I don’t know why I decided to title these posts Dating Diaries, because I have not been on a single date 😆. I guess the title sounded good. Well, I have still been sticking with Bumble. Probably because I’m too lazy to set up a dating profile on any other app or I genuinely just don’t care. I will let you decide. One day I went on the app and they had a deal that I took advantage of. For $2.49, $2.68 with tax, I could see my Beeline for 24 hours. The Beeline is men who have swiped right on me, but I have not swiped right on them. Remember, I said in Dating Diaries, Vol. 1, the cost to see this special group of men was $34.99, so $2.68 was a deal.

To start off with, these men that I seen in my Beeline were not the same men I had seen on the app. These jerks have been holding out on me! At this point, I think they allowed me to see my Beeline to encourage me to pay that damn $35. I’m still not going to do though 😆. As I looked through the men, some of them were not in my general area therefore I probably wouldn’t have seen them anyway. I did set a mileage limit. Others wanted kids and a couple were atheist/agnostic. I would not have swiped right on them even if I had seen them. There was a couple of really attractive men that I wanted to ask if having kids was a non-negotiable 😬. I didn’t do it though. Yet, I’m trying to figure out why these men in their mid forties want kids this late in life?!? Shit, it is time to live it up. Yes, I realize these men are not for me and I can respect their decisions.

Here I am with options and I am doing absolutely nothing with it. What is wrong with me? I need to like them back and send them a message. These $2 and some change are about to go to waste. I had to text my dating guru friend Delanea. She always manages to put a positive spin to this dating app crap. After some encouragement from Delanea, I liked 3 men back and sent my standard Hello. It fell flat. No one responded 😂. To be fair, I do not know when these men had actually liked me. It doesn’t give you a date. I guess my time was up. So, I am back at square one.

I am seriously considering asking my friends to run my dating profile. I want them to match me with men, set up dates, and all I have to do is show up. I never thought I would say that. I don’t want them to act like it’s me. I want them to be honest and say they are doing this on my behalf. I think a man would be very disappointed to meet me if they were speaking for me. They have the skills of flirting and sweet talking which I lack. I am really considering this idea 🤔. I think there is actually an app designed for friends to assist friends. I’m going to look into it.

In the meantime, I’ll just keep swiping left until I find someone to swipe right on. Maybe one day, I’ll create a profile on a different dating app. Maybe one day, I’ll match with someone and actually go out on a date. And then I will have earned the right to call these posts Dating Diaries. I am still trying to stay in this dating game. As the random cute guy said, I’m down to my last resort 😂. Stay well and whole. Much Love 🧡 💚