What not to say on a first date...some tips and a few horrifying examples

Guys...dating is hard.  Like really, really hard.  The saying goes "you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince."  I get that...it's so incredibly true, but the whole kissing frogs thing is getting old!

These past few months I've been on a handful of really awful dates and a few not so bad dates and a few good dates that just lead nowhere...

What I've learned in all of it is to laugh; at yourself, your date (when appropriate) and the uphill battle that is dating.

Here's a few words of wisdom:

• Never, ever, EVER lead with the fact that you like to smoke a lot of marijuana (this has happened to me twice...two separate dates in the last three months.  My friends are getting a kick out of it)
• Never follow that up with the fact that you used to be a drug dealer
• Certainly never correct someone.  You may be a stickler for grammar but just because your date slips up in conversation does warrant you to be pretentious...I'm just saying
• Don't ever order for your date...just don't.  I don't even think I have to tell you why
• Do not bad mouth your ex.  Rule of thumb, don't even bring up past relationships on the first date.  If you are even remotely worth my time, I'll tell you all about that at a later time
• Also leave religion out of it.  I went on a date once actually wait twice where the guys tried to convince me God wasn't real.  LOL.  Who talks about that on a first date? SAVE IT
• If you are "playing the field" make sure you are respectful to your date.  I respect keeping your options open but finishing the date by telling me you are dating two other people but that I may have knocked one out of the running isn't going to work.  Just remember that no one in their right mind wants to hear their date say that out loud..it doesn't make you look good
• OH yeah don't tell your date you are trying to "dumb something down" for them just because they didn't go to school to study the same thing you did or may not be as well versed in something as you.  

I'm sure I am forgetting things...but even so, these should get you by ;)

Happy hunting, erm...dating...

Midweek Confessions!

I'm a pretty avid reader of the blog E, Myself, and I and each week she decides to do confessions on her blog.  Well each week she encourages readers to join in and I figured, why not?!  Here goes nothing:

This just seems like a fitting picture...

1.  I signed up for kickboxing classes and I went for the first time yesterday.  During the warm up the trainer made us do mountain climbers and after the third time down, I went to get up and fell over.  The trainer caught me and I chocked it up to bad balance, but the truth is my legs gave out because I'm out of shape.

2.  I've been trying to do better about my road rage but today I yelled at a woman so bad in the DMV inspection line that my little brother looked embarrassed.

3.  I threw a hissy-fit the morning of my 21st birthday.  So much for turning 21.

4.  Sometimes when I am in a food store and I see a bunch of things stacked up really high I get the urge to karate chop the pile and knock everything down.

5.  I really hate my hair cut.  A couple of weeks ago I had it cut short and it really is a cute cut and my hairdresser is fantastic but it's just not for me.  I miss being able to throw my hair up in a bun and God, can we talk about how annoying side bangs are?!

6.  I found this book in a local library last week and I couldn't stop laughing.  I think this is something I'd buy someday as a parent to provide myself and my husband some comic relief.