This one’s for you, Aunt Linda!  ❤️

Thanksgiving
You know the feeling; it’s the week of Thanksgiving.

There is a list of things to get accomplished a mile long!

From cleaning the house to grocery shopping to planning out your Black Friday shopping trip(s).  Oh and don’t forget the cooking! 🦃

And, this year you are going to go traditional.

Meaning; a nice family & friends Thanksgiving on Thursday - I’m talking ALL DAY.  Cowboys football and all, y’all.

Then, get up at 3:30 am on Friday to make it out to the stores and you will most definitely shop ‘til you drop...at 9:00 am LOL.

Why the trip to Thanksgiving land in August?
Not only is it hot and the humidity makes it even hotter; but it nicely ties a bow around what I have been through to prepare to go back into the world of online dating.

There is this online/mobile app called Bumble; where the ladies make all the moves.  Founder and CEO, Whitney Wolfe, is an absolutely amazing woman who is a co-founder of another app; Tinder.

Comparatively to preparing for Thanksgiving, I did some cleaning of my own; (you know, the usual) hair cut, ‘might have’ touched up my highlights (if you mean by being in the sun doing yard work a lot, then yes), went on YouTube for all the latest trends on how to make your eyes look alluring/innocent/intelligent/unmistakable/but ‘natural’ (all at the same time, of course), went to Sephora to try all the bronzing and highlighting powders (found out that, yeah, no - not me, but it was fun!), and tried on every-single-piece-of-clothing-I-own (even those jeans from college - there is NO way I am fitting into them right now!  Do I like to tortue myself? LOL)

Then I enlisted the help of Becky and Kate (thank you!) to take endless pictures of me - in every pose imaginable - inside, outside, sitting, standing, on the floor, in chairs, couches, etc..  Which produced...4 pictures. I might be a tad picky.

Additionally, I created a video to hopefully boost my profile clicks! (see below)

Black Friday in Beeland
Once I got everything uploaded, it all started happening so fast!

I was not expecting there to be many guys that I would like and there were!  Oh my!

Then there were ones that liked me back - what?  Are we in an alternate universe?

I was reviewing profiles left and right as fast I could - it was exhilarating!  I was - as they say - drunk on honey power? (do they say that on this app? I’ll have to research that a bit)

And then I made a mutual connection with multiple guys so we could chat! Yeah! I love chatting - everyone loves chatting! AmIRight?

Coming Down From the Sugarhigh
Now the reality has set in.

There are not really anymore profiles to look over - I guess only new ones that will trickle in.

And as much as I thought I knew how to write, these gentlemen only give me one to two word answers and now are on radio silence.

Makes me wonder if men do better when they think they are in charge; e.g. other online dating sites?  (when really we are - lol)

Or, is chat just a medium I should not venture?