I lied. Datejenny.com will be about dating Jenny.

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Who am I kidding? Of course I’m going to write about dating. Please ignore my last post. When I was writing it, I hadn’t really had lunch yet. I hadn’t really even showered yet. But after going out for a peanut butter Booster Juice smoothie and rocking out to some Muse on the way home, I was feeling better. And I once again made peace with Singledom.

It is a big part of my life right now—and if I’ve implied anything different, it was a façade.

As an educated, independent, unmarried woman, I feel I must depict the image of the modern feminist woman, who is so busying pursuing a career, learning a third language, and building orphanages in Haiti that marriage must be the last thing on my mind. But it’s a lie! Guys and dating are all my girlfriends and I ever talk about. It’s almost what all my guy friends and I ever talk about. And it’s all my parents really care about when they call me. I’ve sat through many, MANY pre and prost-date conversations, and I feel like an erudite scholar on the subject.

So datejenny.com will be about exactly what the title says: dating—or about just being single, or about being Mormon, or any combination of the above. Not a day goes by without one of these topics coming up in my life—so I should have plenty to write about them.

There is one caveat, however. This can only work if the boys with whom I’m dating don’t know about it. So I’ve recently made efforts to hide datejenny.com from the world. I’ve made it so datejenny.com doesn’t come up number one when you Google my name. (I’m now somewhere on the third page of search results.) In addition, my Facebook page no longer includes datejenny.com as my website, and I won’t be updating my Facebook status about new posts that include links. I’ll still announce new posts, but I’ll write in code in the likes of “Jenny saw the movie UP(dated) today and loved it.”

But that’s not enough. I need to rely on YOU, dear reader, to stay quiet. Well, I really just need one reader, my BFF (you know who you are!), who actually knows (and often introduces me to) the guys with whom I’m dating, to stay quiet. Don’t tell them about my blog, BFF! I can’t write about all the stuff we talk about if he’s going to read it.

And for all you other readers (all twelve of you), you’re still allowed to sing from the rooftops about datejenny.com. Please, call your friends over, pop some popcorn, and gather around the computer screen to read the adventures of a 28-year-old, single Mormon girl’s dating life.

Because in all honesty, I DO care about blog hits. Nothing makes my day more than checking my blog stats to find a huge spike in traffic that day. It totally feeds my wannabe-a-writer ego. So if talking about dating will get me the numbers, than I’ll be talking about dating.

Now please close your web browser and log back on so I can count another hit on my blog.

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