Looking for a unicorn

It's time to look for a man. I've been kind of single from before Christmas. New priorities and lack of time meant it had to end. Recently I've become absolutely fixated with James MacAvoy.  He shares some similarities ex.
It's time to put that fixation to bed.

So I've signed myself up for every dating website I know about

• Plenty of Fish
• Tinder 
• OK Cupid
• Match.com
• BBW Cupid
• BBW Romance
• Elite Singles.

At first I put on my reasonable requirements.

• 5'8"
• Slim build
• At least degree level (really it didn't matter as long as they could string a sentence together)
• Likes cats
• Has hair and I don't mind beards.

No. Nothing.  With my most basic requirements they came up with nothing.  I am searching for a unicorn.

Most of the sites cost money if you want to actually interact with people.  Which is good because it weeds out, what one contact called, the 'knobs'.  But I don't have any money.  Seriously.  Bones of my arse.

But OK Cupid lets you message people through their site.  Yes, if you want to see who likes you, you have to pay.  And it has a compatibility questionnaire so you can see who'll you'll probably tick with.

And I did. There were four men I could date after doing the left swipe, right swipe thing.

1. Lovely chap from Chester le Street.  Met my requirements and we were very compatible. Couldn't make two dates because he had brought some sort of cold from Benidorm. And said he thought that I wasn't enough dominatrix.  I could be a dominatrix.  Just give me a go.
2. A gorgeous 31 year old who made me feel special through messages and phone calls.  I gave him four chances.  Nope for the final one I didn't get a phone call or text. Git.
3. A chap in Shotley Bridge who I swiped right when I should have swiped yes.  I'm not sure what I can do about him apart from ghost him.
4. A German who insists he's a professor of medicine and biosciences at Newcastle University. I can't find him on the staff directory - I am that sneaky. I don't expect him to turn up tomorrow.

But it is all experience.  When the second chap stood me up the first time, I cried my eyes out.  I have had less tears when each rejection has taken place.  I think to myself, you didn't know these men.  Their opinion of you is none of your business. If they lied, they lied and they must have a reason.  You've done well to miss that disaster.

I've also been thrown off a Facebook group because I said I was keeping all my options open and working through different sites.  There are 600 people in that group.  I'm sure that more than half of them are women.  I'm also sure that none of the men are in my area.  And of the body type I fancy? Unicorn.

So there is a Plenty of Fish gathering on 26 October.  I'm planning to go there and see if there are any bods that I'm attracted to, even if they aren't on the James MacAvoy scale of hotness.

Look out for more adventures.