Dating and other stuff...

[vixalicious]

So I'm thinking of joining chemistry.com.... anyone ever tried it?

I refuse to do the eHarmony thing, because they are faily at being inclusive of alternative lifestyles. Lavalife is kind of... I don't know, a bit weird? I've never met anyone on there I've clicked with - or heard from again - except for aubieturtle, which doesn't count because we became LJ friends instead. OKCupid always brings the really strange, with the occasional 'Wow you're interesting but you live 500 miles away.' Eh, I don't know, just feeling like I need to be doing something different.

Speaking of changes, I decided last night to give up diet soda. I was driving to Wal Mart to go grocery shopping, and realized I was so hopped up I was shaking. That can't be good, right? So now I'm on iced tea for caffeine, and am going to allow myself to very occasionally have real soda instead. We'll see how it goes.

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[aubieturtle.livejournal.com]

You're probably the only person I actually met from Lavalife, despite having an account on there for eight years... back when it use to be called webpersonals.

I signed up on Chemistry but didn't find anyone interesting on there. It seemed like a poorman's attempt at eHarmony.

In general, I'm focusing on meeting people in person rather than online. That does involve going out to events more often that I use to but that isn't really a bad thing. There are lots of fun meetups and even if I don't meet someone to date from there, I still end up with a fun evening out of the house.

[vixalicious]

I've been trying to focus on getting out more as well, but it doesn't seem to work out. Tennis was a good outlet, but it was too hot in August to go. I need to get back to that now that it's cooled down a smidge.

[purple-hazed.livejournal.com]

I think diet soda tastes awful!!

If I was younger I'd try gothic match but the sites I have seen seem v conservative!

[vixalicious]

You get used to it, actually. Now regular soda tastes too sweet.

[purple-hazed.livejournal.com]

I just remembered right back to when I first started to count calories!!! Yeah, you do get used to the taste I did myself years ago!! I had forgotten.

Nowadays tho, I am v concerned about nutrasweet/aspartame.

[vixalicious]

Yeah, that's why I'm trying to give it up. Fake sugar = bad.

[shirecreature.livejournal.com]

Every day I read another article about how bad soda is for you. OK well not every day.

I tried Chemistry.com and they didn't send me one man I thought was worth joining for in 2 months. Hopefully you will have better luck. I am totally against Eharmony - I tried for 3 months and almost every match they sent me wasn't a full member so he couldn't contact me - what the hell is the point of that?

[vixalicious]

I guess I'll give it a whirl - the worst that could happen is nothing, I s'pose.

[the-grapevine.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the chemistry thing. I'm sure you will find someone, you are a catch!

[vixalicious]

Thanks, hon! We'll see how it goes - if nothing else, it give me something to say when my family asks if I've been seeing anyone :D

[yellow-oranges.livejournal.com]

I met my sweetie at plentyoffish.com. It's F-R-E-E! But other than that it's pretty much like any other dating site.

[vixalicious]

I will give that one a whirl too. I've heard of it before, but I stayed away because I don't like the URL. It always looks like plenty offish to me, instead of plenty of fish.

[yellow-oranges.livejournal.com]

LOL! They must think so too, because at the site it's usually referred to as "POF."