Junk Mail

I really love getting email and playing around on Facebook but I don't know what you see when you look at the right side of your Facebook, but I have singles ads. I get ads from every single dating site and then some from things like married women looking for studs... I am not really sure how the entire world of advertising knows that I am unmarried, I am sure that it has to do with Facebook. Most of the time I find the ads hilarious. Case in point: when I use pandora the side of the page has lots of cute guys saying things like click here to meet cute singles in your area... really that super hot guy is single and happy that you are using his photo to advertise?!? Perhaps they are really single but I am sure it is somewhere very far from here since these are the same guys that were on the side in St. Louis.

I know that I have often thought about doing a dating website or at least looking around on one if I am not meeting lots of people here in Dallas. I just don't want to feel pressured into by my junk mail and ads on the side of my screens. I know that I am still single do you really have to point it out to me every stinking day?!?! Give a girl a break and send me some ads for something else like shoes or cooking.

I know that junk mail is part of life at this point and I am just glad that they are unable to call my phone and say something like... hello incomplete single person we have people waiting to meet you... press 1 for preppy, press 2 for rugged, press 3 for super nerds (who knows who would press this), and press 4 for other. That would be horrible and kinda fantastic at the same time, it would be horrible to hear it everyday but super fun to play around on after a few cocktails.

Being single in my late 20s is a little hard I feel as if I missed the boat or something but it is made worse when people say things like: don't you feel incomplete, I don't know how to function alone, maybe you would get more dates if you lowered your standards, or some other inane statement about their stinking feelings about my singleness. Those statements make me feel like a freak and are really hurtful and if we are being honest somewhat damaging to my self-esteem. I think that it is hard to wait for the right man but I refuse to settle for a marriage that I don't want to man I don't love just so other people are comfortable around me.

Well what I thought would be a light hearted statement about junk mail is now a little more serious... yikes. Remember it sucks to be single but it sucks more to be in a relationship that sucks.