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Oh Shit, What Just Happened?
How did this happen? Just over a week ago we were meeting each other in person as friends for the first time, I’d sworn off dating...
Single in Oakland
Apr 11, 20165 min read
Meet My Kryptonite
So entirely sure I said that I was going to stay off of the apps, and I have, but somehow this one guy slips through. 37, RN, and looking...
Single in Oakland
Mar 24, 20164 min read
Waking up Alone
I woke up with the distinct yearning to wake up with someone next to me. I was trying to figure out who was the last one that I woke up...
Single in Oakland
Mar 15, 20161 min read
Ohio and the MC
I started talking to this guy on Bumble early this week. He’s kind of cute and funny in his pictures, he’s from the midwest, and he’s...
Single in Oakland
Mar 12, 20163 min read
The Return of the MW
I needed to get out of the house for a while. I was going stir crazy, and starting to really panic about career stuff so I went to my...
Single in Oakland
Mar 11, 20162 min read
Giving Back Finance His Shit/He Gets the Boot
It’s been almost two months since I’ve seen him, and about a month since I’ve talked to him. I haven’t gone into the city, but I’ve had...
Single in Oakland
Mar 9, 20163 min read
Meeting Mr Gris
It’s our one week Tinderversarry. In that week, we’ve texted every day, often by noon. Actually, when I don’t hear from him by noon, I...
Single in Oakland
Mar 3, 20164 min read
My First French Kiss
I mean...how do you beat this first date?! We met at a coffee shop near the airport. My nerves were still rattled so I was blasting music...
Single in Oakland
Feb 29, 20163 min read
I'm in love! I'm in love! And I don't care who knows it!
I feel like I'm constantly playing a game of I love you, I love you not with Tinder. I keep getting up to 200 matches, and then probably...
Single in Oakland
Feb 25, 20162 min read
This Month is *Almost* Over
19 days with no alcohol, sugar, gluten, or dairy. I’m personally amazed. Last week was ridiculously hard. Every time I do a cleanse I’m...
Single in Oakland
Feb 19, 20162 min read
Gun Show at Room 389 and V Day
I got to the bar early enough to pay the bartenders to continue giving me drinks that looked like they had booze in them but didn’t. They...
Single in Oakland
Feb 12, 20161 min read
Date at a Bar, While Not Drinking
This whole not drinking thing kind of sucks, but I do love that I’m not waking up feeling like shit every day. You wake up, unrested,...
Single in Oakland
Feb 8, 20163 min read
Dry February SUCKS and Several WTFs
I’m not drinking for the month of February. I’m sick of being hungover and I feel gross physically. I think I spent so many mornings...
Single in Oakland
Feb 4, 20164 min read
Nice Nice and I'm Dumb for Dude
Back on Tinder for two weeks. Basically the night Finance left I went back on. It could have been before that. It was, now that I think...
Single in Oakland
Jan 26, 20163 min read
We Broke Up Over Funyuns
Last night he came over, he wanted to go straight out for dinner. We hadn’t seen each other in days, and the last time we saw each other...
Single in Oakland
Jan 12, 20163 min read
When it Doesn't Feel Right
The truth finally came out, through texts, yesterday, that he'd left his job and had basically been lying to me for at least 6 weeks...
Single in Oakland
Jan 3, 20163 min read
What I Really Want
We got in a massive fight two days ago. We were cuddling in bed, and he does the usual launching of questions at me like a kid. The Why,...
Single in Oakland
Dec 29, 20154 min read
Too Familiar
We’ve made up, but by the time I heard from him the next day I was fuming. Like, so much for hiding the crazy, nuts. He doesn’t really...
Single in Oakland
Dec 14, 20152 min read
Shit Gets Complicated
Finance picked us up from the airport and then never really left my home for the next eight days. We were back on a Monday and he spent...
Single in Oakland
Dec 11, 20153 min read
He's Dead to Me
I’m still in Mexico, and I haven’t heard from him all day. One nonchalant response to a text from him asking if he was still alive...
Single in Oakland
Nov 27, 20151 min read
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