My best foot forward

After much internal deliberation and a very long conversation with my dear friend/ matchmaker, I finally took the plunge and waded into the deep waters of online dating. I chose a discreet username, registered with a singles-only Christians site, diligently answered the profile questions, and uploaded a photo. I must confess that I had some reservations about putting up a photo, but finally decided to go for it because that’s a practical way of getting more people to view my profile, plus it bought me an extra 3 days of free membership! And so began my first attempt at putting-myself-out-there since the break-up.

Next, I created two saved searches – one for my ideal guy in the UK and the other for my ideal guy anywhere in the world. My ideal guy would be a Pentecostal Christian whose faith defines him, be involved in church activities,  be between 31 and 38 years old and of African descent, have never been married, have no kids and no pets, be marriage-minded, be at least 5ft 6 ins tall, not smoke, and not drink heavily.

Before the end of day one, to my surprise and well, delight, some people had initiated contact. There was mr wink-buddy, mr i-want-to-find-my-baby-but-can’t-be-bothered-with-a-decent-profile, mr nna-men, mr location-location-location, and mr chatty-and-interesting-but-older-and-pictureless. I also typed a quick email to give mr i-like-your-profile-but-you’re-never-online an award for the most descriptive profile I had seen!

To be continued …

Nice to see you ... to see you nice!

After many many months of absence coupled with lots of teasing and prodding from Gee, I finally return to blogville. Who knew it would take this long eh? I didn’t even have a witty retort when Gee accused me of being a one-hit-wonder. Well, all that is in the past now… It’s good to be back, and it’s even better to prove her wrong lol. So much has happened since I’ve been away, as you might imagine.

Like a true subject of Mama Charlie, first a shout out to the weather lol…I survived another winter in the Burgh and the longest ever spring, thanks to an uncooperative previously-unheard of jet stream. They say we’ll get some good summer weather from next week, but at this point I’ll believe it when I see it.

My elder sister got engaged (yayyyyyy!), so we’re all gearing up for the wedding this autumn. This will be my second time as a bridesmaid. The first was at my aunt’s wedding in 1987, but of course we were called flower girls then… Anyways I’m so excited for the couple and I’m really looking forward to the wedding.

The friendship project is going well. The university badminton thingy didn’t take off cos there were way too many people involved and standing around in an overcrowded sports hall wasn’t much fun. I stayed on at my homegroup and I’m building great friendships there instead - slowly but surely. Everyday I’m reminded that friendship, like many other good things in life, is all about intentionality!

Blessings,

Uzy xxx