eHarmon-me at last...

Note to readers: I started to type this last Thursday or Friday, but was unable to finish it, so I am going to post it as I left it last week, then post again today with the updates! - Max

Are you all ready for some exciting news? I am finally going out with Engineer! Woo hoo! And yes, while I have closed out my eHarmony account (although technically it still doesn’t expire until late next week), I have been emailing him on the side. As you know from my previous posts, I gave up on eHarmony pretty quickly, but I didn’t give up on Engineer. I do realize I put all my eggs in the same proverbial eHarmony basket, but that’s okay. I just realized I wasn’t at a point where I was ready to commit to eH. It was too time consuming. Maybe it’s more of a winter activity, rather than summer. And the matches get out of control so fast. You really have to devote time and energy to it. But I can definitely see myself signing back up in the future, it wasn’t terrible. There were some quality guys on there, I just wasn’t ready to commit to it. That’s all. So, before I talk about my date, I want to say that although I signed on most skeptically, I think eHarmony is a pretty good dating site, and if you are willing to commit to it, can provide some decent caliber people. The process does take time, so know that ahead of time, don’t get frustrated, and hopefully you’ll get good results as well. As far as the ones that fall along the wayside, be glad. It means they just aren’t that into you (or else, they’d respond), or you don’t want someone lazy like that anyways? Either way, only worry about the ones that

Back to Engineer. If this date works out, we will have to dub him a new name. I will have Cat help me think of something perfect. We have been emailing for 2 months now, and I cannot reiterate enough how great the email banter has been. He’s very clever, I really enjoy reading his emails, and he enjoys mine. I know so much about him! It’s just so bizarre how I feel like I’ve known him forever, but we haven’t even met. I guess this is what eH is supposed to do, right? I mean, when I think about it, I’m not really surprised, this is what everyone who’s had success on these sites have said, that they wrote these long emails, etc., and when they finally met, it was like they’d known the person forever. We’ll see what happens in real life, but Dr. Warren might be on to something. I might be a believer. But then again, I do think it’s risky that he’s the only guy I’m pursuing at all. Just the Law of Large Numbers would suggest that I should have gone out with several guys to ensure that one would work. But I guess it does just take one, right? Last night, we finally talked, and when we finally hung up the phone I was shocked to learn we’d been talking for 50 minutes! I would have bet money it was only 15. Our conversation was so cute! I am super excited about finally meeting him. I called Cat immediately after and her response was “Oh Maxi, you just sound so giddy!” We are meeting a winery half way between our two cities. Isn’t that the cutest first date ever? It’s a day date, I guess that follows the internet date protocol right? At least we aren’t meeting at Starbucks!!