Ahoy Mateys!

Hello all!
I'd like to make a special announcement.  I officially have 1 follower (who is not my mom, friend, or anyone I know, not that they follow anyway...)!!  Katie O., you are my new best friend forever!  Thank you for your love and support.  My gratitude is yours to keep and cherish forever.

So, I bet you all thought I had given up on the blog.  Well, I kinda thought about it, but then another dating disaster struck, and here I am!  So unfortunately for me, but lucky for you, I'm still typing away on the ol' laptop.

Today's blog post isn't going to be about a specific date that I went on - more of a creative writing piece (You'll see what I'm getting at).

So yesterday I was fortunate enough to receive a message (And this is on match.com now - and yes, I know I need to post reviews of the different sites.  Maybe I'll get all crazy and write two posts tonight.  Yippee skippee!  Let's just ignore the fact that it's Saturday night, ok?  Ok, enough with the parenthesis - go back and read what I started saying and come back to right here so that it makes sense) from a very special individual.  We'll call this guy Captain Zip Zop Zibidy Bop.  Now, I can't take all the credit for that unique nickname, as "Zip Zop Zibidy Bop" was the headline he used on his profile.  No, really.  Seriously.

And I give you: Captain Zip Zop Zibidy Bop.  Yes, those are the photos he used to try to seduce me on his profile. 

 (Captain ZZZB, if you ever read this, I'm sure you won't be offended.  You yourself said in your profile, "It would be nice to have someone who doesnt flip out when I make a joke about disabilities or ethnic groups (for example)...we're all just people. people are funny...and fun to make fun of.")


So you're probably wondering why I am referring to him as "Captain."  Well, there is a perfectly good reason for that.  He sent me a very eloquent message that he wrote in his native tongue, Pirate.

For your reading pleasure:

Subject: i dunoo
(not only was the subject "i dunoo," but he spelled "dunno" wrong... or maybe that is how they spell it out at sea)

Content of his message:

Ahoy! I'm           ...I have no idea what I ought to say to make me seem especially captivating, and im pretty sure regardless of the content of this message it first comes down to whether or not Im pretty enough for your taste. If so: Hello.

Good start me thinks

Kbye

Well, Hello!  After reading a message so beautifully penned, I started to think about what I would like to write back if I responded.

Here's what I drafted:

Ahoy Cap'n Zip Zop Zibidy Bop!

I am so thrilled that out of all the fish in the sea, you chose to send me that lovely email message in a bottle.  Until you, I was shipwrecked and stranded out on a desert island, filled with scurvy landlubbers.  Aye, me thinks I have found me buried treasure, at last.  You must have seen me "must love parrots" headline in me profile.  I had most of the buckos on here pegged as bilge-sucking swabs, pillaging for booty, but you've hooked me.  Please let me walk your plank and you can shiver me timbers any day.
Your wench,

K

p.s. poop deck

(just had to get that last one in)

And there you have it.  Think I should send it?

Just one of the many gems I have encountered as I've sailed the seven seas of online dating.

Arrrgh...