Oh no he didn't!.com

So, as a follow up to my post earlier this week regarding online dating I've been sorta lurking around match.com tonight deciding whether or not to unhide my year old profile - just checking out the selection, ya know? Well, anyways, who do I see but The Russian! Yes. That disaster. Apparently he is single and looking. In fact he has been active on his profile within the last 3 days. The problem is he has been "in a relationship" since September. And, by the looks of it (of course I stalk!) it seems to be a fairly serious "I love you" situation.

Now, I like to always give people the benefit of the doubt, so maybe to save money (he was unemployed if you remember) he chose the 6 month option. Not only is it cheaper per month, but you get the 6 month guarantee if you don't find true love. (I wish every guy came with a warranty like that!) But, I mean honestly. He may have been an ass, but he's relatively intelligent, and you would think that he would hide his profile, or at least not go on it after he finds a girlfriend. This is such a red light!

Reminds me of a few weeks ago when my friends were looking at the girls on match.com and just happened upon our one girl friend who has been married for about a year and a half - "separated and looking for fun" - too bad her husband has no idea that they are "separated". My one friend was so embarassed for her that she called her immediately and told her to remove the profile and to stop being such a trashy whore. Honestly, if you are going to cheat on your significant other/husband, please use craigslist, or something a little more discreet.

I mean, I'm not friends with The Russian's girlfriend, (I don't even know her) but I feel bad for her. What if one of her BFFs or even a sister is looking for a man and comes across her bf advertising himself as available?! Poor girl. Now, that's all I'm gonna say about this because I'm 99% sure one of my readers/fellow bloggers is friends with this guy and I really don't want to start drama or hurt any feelings.

Something like this just really really makes me question whether I'll ever find a guy who isn't a piece of shit slime ball.

BTW, I did end up signing up. At least for the 3 day trial, because I found two normal looking guys. I have 3 business days to cancel my membership if they don't "wink back." Oh my life is sad.

♥ Miss Fabulous

Ok, so who turned off the heat?

Anyone who knows me will tell you that in addition to dating disaster I am also a certified "freeze baby". I bundle up constantly, always have a blanket on my couch, turn my heat up as far as it goes, and I have a space heater under my desk at work. So as the current temperature in Cleveland is 2 degrees Farenheit and the wind chills are much colder than that it comes as no surprise that I am miserable. The drive this morning was awful. I saw at least 5 accidents during my 10.5 mile drive to work. They were all really bad ones too. Not because it's snowing or anything like that but because of the moisture on the roads turning to thin sheets of ice. Evidently road salt is not effective when it gets below a certain temperature. It was scary!

The nasty weather certainly puts a damper on my mood for the long weekend. I may stay in tonight altogether. I do have plans tomorrow night with a friend to go "man hunting". She specifically invited me because we usually make a good team. She's bringing the heavy artillery and I'm bringing the nets. I'm not sure where we're going yet but I'm sure by the end of the night we'll end up in the all too familar location. (Begins with map, ends with room.) I'll let you know if we capture anything worthwhile.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend!

♥ Miss Fabulous

Are you serious?

So, tonight while I'm enjoying a lovely ladies night out with my favorites at La Dolce Vita (if you don't already know you have to check out a Tuesday there - you get a free entree - choose from a special menu of pasta or pizza for FREE when you buy a drink (even soda) and leave a mandatory $2 tip - even if you leave more than $2 you can eat for less than $10 - my friends and I shared a couple bottles of wine).

Anyways... I got a text. Not just any text... but a text from a random number not on my contacts list. It reads "Hey! It is [Clepto] from new years. Wanted to say hi and hope you are doing well." Mind you, since the iPod Touch has not shown up after 2 weeks and I hadn't heard from the dbag I know for sure he stole it. I seriously think that because he hasn't gotten arrested or anything in the past two weeks that he thinks that he must be in the clear like I didn't suspect him or something. (How do thieves think? I deal with them every day and I still don't get it.) So what do I say to that? My friends all suggested I outright confront him via text about it. I honestly just feel like that would be a big waste. So I say, "Are you serious? Please lose my number." The balls on that guy. Honestly. Who does that?

What would you say?

♥ Miss Fabulous

Things you are dying to know about me.

(Or maybe not.) But, anyways, I stole these questions from Andy at Wild ARS Chase because they remind me of a glorified and somewhat more sophisticated MySpace survey. (You know, the ones written by high schoolers that I shamefully fill out and annoy my friends with when I'm bored.) So here goes:

1.) Who is the person you admire most and why? I actually have a whole list of people I admire, in no particular order:

1. My Grandmas - both of them - because they essentially raised me.
2. My Mother - because even though I never got a chance to really know her the way that people talk about her and how lovely a person she was makes me want to be a better person myself.
3. My BFF - she has had to deal with a lot in the past couple of years including the sudden death of her only serious bf who she had been dating for over 10 years. The fact that she can even get out of bed everyday let alone accomplish the things she has accomplished since then makes my dating troubles seem oh so silly and really inspires me.
4. Lauren Conrad - true she didn't have to do much to get picked to do Laguna Beach, but the fact that she has capitalized on that fortune to create not only The Hills spinoff, but a fashion label and basically a brand is amazing. I mean she might just have lucked out, but good for her. Also I think she is classy and beautiful, and she has slept with Brody Jenner - and that is reason enough for my admiration.
5. Wallis Simpson - a twice divorced American woman who finally found her prince charming despite King Edward VII of England having to abdicate the throne to marry her. Can you imagine having the hatred of an entire country focused on you because you want to marry a King and then you don't even get to become the freakin' queen. (Thankfully this will likely not be the case when Prince William proposes to me.)

2.) If you could have one superhero power, what would it be and why? Hmmmm.... I think I would want mind reading powers so that I could finally figure out what guys are thinking... but like every "super" power I'm sure that would get annoying and take all the "fun" out of the disaster that is my dating career. I probably don't want to know what they are thinking anyways.

3.) If you absolutely had to give up one thing you loved what would it be and why? Like Andy, I have certain things I cherish that I could never give up like my iPhone, my BFFs, my family, alcohol and ice cream. I guess if I had to give up something it would be Rockband. True, I would miss hitting the "world tour" with BFF and utilizing my sweet drum skills, but I would also be less of a nerd and get more sleep at night.

4.) If you weren't in the career you are in now what would you be doing? This is easy. If I wasn't practicing law I would probably still be into Social Work. I'm a sucker for needy and disadvantaged people. In fact I plan on finding a new pro-bono project to work on this Spring.

5.) If you could choose anywhere in the world to go where would it be and why? I really need to get back to Europe. I haven't been since circa 1997. I need to go to Paris, and Rome for sure. Those are #1 and #2 on my list.

♥ Miss Fabulous

Now that would make for an awkward family situation...

Just a quick funny story from my uneventful weekend. My cousin was having a housewarming party complete with her long term bf's family. I was making conversation with his Mom and found out that his recently divorced uncle lives in my apartment building. Later his sister and I had a brief conversation that went like this:

Sister: So, you live in my Uncle's building?
Me: Yes.
Sister: Are you single?
Me: Yes.
Sister: He's so cute, you should totally meet him. He's 36 and has a daughter, but she lives with his ex wife. He has this girl friend right now who is 53 going on 70 - quite a cougar and...
Me: I think that might be weird.

Granted, my cousin and I are merely step cousins (though it's been that way since we were young children) I still think it would be a little strange (as if I'm even entertaining the idea) but the sister didn't think it was weird at all. This reminds me of the time when my other cousin was pushing me to date her now husband's little brother. It just seems creepy.

I mean I'm not that desperate... yet, am I?

♥ Miss Fabulous

The snow is really ruining my game.

I know I have no right to complain because I've lived in Cleveland my whole life and I stay here by choice, but I still hate the snow. Every winter I dread the snow and cold. A whole weekend was just seriously destroyed because of the snow. Well, not really, but it definitely was not as fun as it could have been. I had a girls night Friday at my friend's house. The 5 minute drive home took at least 15 minutes. Saturday I stayed in all day and ventured out for a much needed trip to the gym even though the streets were still a nightmare. Saturday night my friends had a graduation party at Around the Corner which is very close to where I live and it was fun except that the whole rest of the bar was pretty much dead - a consequence of the blizzard I suppose. Subsequently, there is no news to report from dating world.

In somewhat related news, I am seriously considering re-upping my membership on an infamous online dating site. I online dated for about 4 months last year. I went on 2 dates total (and they were 2 guys I had already known in real life who found me online). Needless to say I wasn't too impressed with the selection. I like the idea of online dating but I have only met one person who it has actually "worked out" for, and needless to say my friends are (sadly) already taking bets on when that disaster of a marriage is going to end. Does anyone else date online/have a favorite site?

I don't know what it is - but I always get stir crazy this time of year.

♥ Miss Fabulous

Thank you.

My blog buddy Maryx8815 at Mega Ramlings gave me one of those Honest Scrap awards and I think that was just oh so sweet of her. Her blog is hella cool BTW. (Mega - why can't I comment? I want to teach you how to use the link thing - it's right next to the button that changes text color BTW.) Anyways, I guess there are rules that go with this award. I have to share 10 honest things about myself with you. This shouldn't be hard because I am always honest even if I'm not always clever, funny or nice. So here goes:

1. I was in Model United Nations in high school and I'm not ashamed. It was fun, and we got excused from class to go to competitions. Judge me, I dare you.


2. I've never gone all the way with a married man, but I've come close, and I still feel bad about it. (I'm not judging anyone who has, but it's just not for me.)


3. I have a younger sister who has special needs. She has mild cerebral palsy and various developmental disabilities. Even though she doesn't talk or understand most of what I say I love her for opening my eyes to special people and teaching me a tolerance and understanding for special needs people.


4. I'm sure I'll write about this more in the future, but sometimes (read: a lot of times) I regret breaking up with The One. I think at the time I made a pretty convincing case for it, but I'm really scared deep down that he really was The One and that I made the biggest mistake of my life.


5. I've slept/hooked up with 3 sets of brothers (not at the same time!) Sometimes I worry that makes me a horrible person.


6. I'm ashamed of my number. You know, the NUMBER. I actually have to use an Excel spreadsheet to keep it all straight. I feel better knowing that I keep things safe, but still. If asked about the NUMBER by a guy I was into I would probably cut it in half, or even three fourths.


7. I spent my last 2 years of high school and my first 4 years of college thinking I was going to be a social worker. I was going to get my Masters in Social Work after college, but I had to go an extra year to finish some stuff up and it was at the beginning of that year I decided to take the LSAT. It cost me $200 to register for the test and that was it. Before I even took the test I was committed to law school.


8. I almost totaled my car when it was only 6 days old. I was 17 and had no business driving a brand new car. I didn't hurt anyone thank god, but I did $5000 in damage to this guy's car and $13000 to my own - I also got a ticket from it and I had to go to Juvenile Court. (I still drive this car today, BTW)


9. I am proud of my modest collection of Tiffany's jewlery. Granted, I don't have any diamonds yet, but I own a necklace, a bracelet, 2 pairs of earrings and 4 rings. ( I also still have all the blue boxes that they came in) I make it a point to find the Tiffany's store when I'm on vacation and pay it a visit. So far I've been in Tiffany's in Miami, West Palm, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles (Rodeo Drive) and Las Vegas (Bellagio).


10. I am obssessed with dating books like "He's Just Not That Into You" etc. I'm currently reading "Be Honest, You're Not that Into Him Either" I will let you know how it is - so far I love it.

Well, that's about it. I think I'm also supposed to give the award out to 7 blogs that I think deserve it but I just can't pick 7 of my favorites. I love all the blogs I read. Feel free to copy and paste if you feel like spilling the beans and telling us 10 honest things about yourself!

♥ Miss Fabulous