There's an app for that...

This week while playing Words with Friends on my iPhone I noticed a new ad running across the top of the game... "SINGLE? There's an app for that!" Because my beloved iPhone has solved so many of my wiley life's riddles, I was intrigued. Turns out it is an app for SpeedDate.com which is like Match.com meets speed dating. You are matched with people and then you can IM with them for 3 minutes and then decide whether or not you want to continue communicating with that person via email or whatever. I had to put in some basic info to discover how it works... I figured come July if I'm still single even after bleaching my hair blonde in June, maybe I will give it a shot. This was a great idea until based soley on my age and the city I live in, these "potential soulmates" started gracing my email inbox...

It is impossible to spell the sound I made when I first caught a glimpse of Cleo from West Hollywood...

Mickey Rourke?

I'm pretty sure I saw this guy leaning against a limo behind the Penninsula in Beverly Hills...

Wait... did you notice that he is drinking and smoking in his profile picture?!!

Ok, tattoos can be sexy, but I think I'm going to need a little more information...

The only place my imagination takes me when I try to picture the real person from this profile picture is the junk food riddled check out line at Fryes Electronics...

And, my very favorite profile happily arrived to my inbox with the headline "Mike Really Wants to Meet You!"...

...and... CHOP MY HEAD OFF!

So... not the app for me...

What I really wish the ad said is "EVER WONDER IF YOU'RE ON A DATE OR NOT?There's an app for that." In the last month I have had coffee, several lunches, gone to the movies, been to a BBQ and a concert and I have no idea if on any of these occasions I was actually on a date. So, I need an app that helps me figure out if the guy is interested in dating me but perhaps taking it slow, just wants to be friends, or is professionally networking. Frankly, I have enough friends, and if someone is trying to be my friend in order to get business they're in trouble. In my experience business can lead to friendships, but it rarely works for friendships to evolve in to business relationships. I would love to go out on what is clearly a date.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately and I've realized that every one of my past relationships be it good, bad, short, long, passionate or boring, have all started out as friendships. Not that this is a bad thing, but the common denominator here is me! So, until my app is developed I need to figure out how I can put a "romance me" vibe out there instead of a "be my buddy" vibe.

Gotta go now... I have to log on to SpeedDate.com and remove any trace of myself!!!