Time's Up!!

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Registered: 04-18-2003
Time's Up!!
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Tue, 01-18-2005 - 10:24am

Hi Folks!

Well, today is the day that my Match.com membership expires. Although I already hid my profile a few weeks ago in frustration, I have still had the idea, floating around in the back of my brain, that I could go back on and send an email to someone if I wanted to. I have been going to the website and not logging in~just surfing these last few weeks...just to see if maybe, somehow, someway a new person was on there that would catch my eye. (and NOPE, no one has, but still...the hope, the hope!!!)

So today I am panicked that since I expire today Murphy's law will come to bite me in the butt and tomorrow I will see that ONE GUY who could be THE ONE and I will have no way to send him AN EMAIL without paying for another membership. Sigh.

I am however sticking to my original guns and keeping my profile hidden and not rejoining for a few months. Hopefully that will improve the prospects later on and make me seem new if I decide to go back on and join in the Spring (ohpleaseohpleaseohplease don't let me have to do that!!!)

The good news? My cousin who is flat out with a newly broken ankle and nothing to do for six weeks has promised to teach me to knit, thus ensuring I will achieve my REVISED naughty New Year's resolution!

Hope everyone is doing well today. It is 1 degree in the sun here in Maine! Brrrrrrr!

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Registered: 03-11-2004
Tue, 01-18-2005 - 12:26pm

Hey X,

I'm taking a break as well after Friday. I'm going to leave the profile up but I'll no longer be a member. I think I'm going to take 6 months off unless someone interesting winks or e-mails in the interim. But if it means anything, I'd wink or e-mail you if you lived closer to where I live. :-)

TT

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Registered: 04-18-2003
Tue, 01-18-2005 - 3:51pm

TT~

It means EVERYTHING that you would wink at me!!!! You KNOW we all have crushes on you, LG, Eric, NGOL, JAHD, PG...because you all are the only good guys left out there!!!! (Although, you are my favorite, just don't go telling those other boys!!)

What's a little geographical dislocation when yer lookin' fer love, anyway? ;)

Good luck with the last date. I am waiting for my last holdout from Match to belly up to the bar and suggest a date/time for us to meet. He seems interested, but can't quite make the plans so I don't hold much hope. Nor am I trying to GET him to that point...he can get there on his own or I'll just fade into the sunset.

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Registered: 01-12-2005
Tue, 01-18-2005 - 5:21pm

xrivergirl...


Pianoguy would never think of competing with you if you favor a "long tall texan!" (I'm referencing the song here).

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Registered: 09-09-2003
Tue, 01-18-2005 - 5:26pm
I think I will follow suite soon. Except that I have some 38 points with Lava that I havent used and I m thinking since I already paid why not keep lurking until someone interesting comes along. I guess I can hide my pofile and keep checking new members.
I m done with eligible members already! and they are 6 who are returned in my search and no one was interesting! not a little bit except one who was condemned by everybody here for saying "Sexy Beast" and has been blocked ever since...
I m trying to look for real world prospects as well
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Registered: 03-11-2004
Tue, 01-18-2005 - 5:48pm

Piano,

Actually, I do much better in cold climates than in TX. It's bloody hot and humid down here from May until October. And there's no worry about "a certain portion" of me falling off as it already has. From lack of use.

TT

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Registered: 05-16-2004
Tue, 01-18-2005 - 5:51pm

You should let it lapse asap because that's a magnet for attracting winks and emails (usually photoless) that you can't respond too. When you're not a subscriber you also tend to get these photoless people emailing you several times asking if you got their last email. I'll be damned if I'll ever pay to send someone an email asking for a photo (90% disappear when asked).

Being a freeloader is actually great though because it forces you to really screen who you'll respond to. Then is stinks again because when you pay up -- the person you respond to always disappears. I think it's written into the TOS.

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Registered: 04-18-2003
Tue, 01-18-2005 - 6:06pm

LG~I resigned and hid my profile a few weeks ago, so no one can see me to send the weirdo winks and emails until I decide to at least unhide it and leave it out there(even without paying). I don't want to be seen on there for a while since I must look familiar to lots of folks....just as they look familiar to me! Today is the last day I could have unhid it and re-registered to send an email without paying up again. Good riddance!!

PG and TT~Hmmmmm....I sense a bit of machismo feather ruffling going on?!?!?! Which of you is manly enough to handle the cold and come North to warm up this lonely gal? ;) Uh-oh, better stop....the girls are gonna kick my ass for trying to get you both for myself. Heehee!!! :~P

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Registered: 12-10-2004
Tue, 01-18-2005 - 6:10pm

I think taking a break is a good plan. Have a good time doing anything and everything that you do in the meanwhile!

And FWIW, I'd date ya in a heartbeat if I were up there. :)

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Registered: 01-12-2005
Wed, 01-19-2005 - 3:09pm

talltx...


As most of us know....it takes an outstanding woman to occasionally wake up a body part that has been dormant for awhile, right?

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Registered: 03-11-2004
Wed, 01-19-2005 - 3:15pm

Piano,

Don't worry about me. I'm going to go to hop on over to jumpdate.com and pick up my sweetie. Then we can sit by my fireplace with some malt liquor and I can turn the air conditioner on since it's 80 degrees outside.

TT

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