The Repeat

A few months ago, on Facebook, I received a friend request from a guy, who looked vaguely familiar, but after looking at his tiny postage stamp picture, I decided I didn't know him. His status said he was single and he looked somewhat attractive, but I like to separate my Facebook from my online dating, so I hit ignore - goodbye to him.

On another note, while looking through my online dating site, I came across a guy, good looking enough, and decided I'll go back later and maybe email him. For some reason, I don't like to make the first move on the online dating sites, instead I prefer to stare at their pictures until my retina's burn or until these guys morph into Brad Pitt look alike's, which doesn't quite seem to happen.

Back to Facebook - hope you can follow! Bored one day, I decide to use the feature where Facebook allows you to go through your email contacts and see if any of your contacts are on Facebook, so you can add them. Well, sure enough Facebook told me that the guy that tried to add me a few months ago was an email contact of mine?! That meant I knew him?! We've emailed?! Luckily, with gmail, I can search old emails from forever ago to see what was written. Of course, I learn we emailed a few times referring to how we met online! I then realize he is the guy that I put aside and was going to email from the online site. He was a repeat!!!

I found by reading our emails that after a few, I stopped emailing him. Could it have been that I went on one of my bad online dating dates and took it out on him? I just couldn't remember! So...I emailed him on Facebook. I apologized for not accepting his friend request months ago and explained that my memory had failed me. I said I realized that we had met online and that I stopped emailing, but wasn't sure why - maybe he can refresh my memory. Also in my crazy head, if he came back into my life - it would have to be fate...yeah right.

He instantly wrote back and added me as his friend on Facebook. Well, now it was time to dive into all the pics. I started to panic, some were ok, some not. I started to realize that maybe this was why I stopped emailing him - I found that I might not be attracted to him...was that what happened last time? One of the pics he's wearing a gold chain...I'm sorry - just not a fan! Now I've drummed it all up again? Certainly, I can't stop emailing the guy AGAIN...for the second year in a row. I told myself to stop nitpicking and staring at these pictures! I'm sure the gold chain isn't cemented to his neck. Well, he asked me to go out last Saturday, but I had plans with my girls, who I would never ditch! I kindly told him we could meet some other time...we'll see...the ball is in his court...