I love telling this story. It almost, but not quite, makes me beleive in fate. I was going to college during the day and working at night at one of those bars with a rock band 7 nights a weeks. A rather wild place, I admit. Funnest job I ever had. We had a house band that played every Sunday and Monday, the days most bands take off. They also played a full week here and there. He was newly divorced and took a part time job selling water beds to make ends meet. His shift overlapped Gene's shift and they became freinds. Gene played keyboard for our house band. He became a regular and we knew each other for about a year and were fairly good friends before he asked me out. I found out that we had gone to the same high school but we never met as he is a couple years younger than I am. Hey, I thought he was older. How many 22 year old guys own a house, a nice truck and a boat...plus are already divorced? He certianly ACTS older than I do. By the end of the first month I was head over heals. We were engaged by month 3. When I brought him with me to meet my parents my mom recognised his name and asked if his mom was "C". She is. Turns out we had met before. For 2 years, my mom and his led a girl scout troop together. They often brought their babies with them and we played in the play pen together while they had their scout meetings. My mom had to quit when she got pregnent again, but evidently he and I remembered each other on some level, eh? I had thought I was in love a couple of other times before, but with DH, it was completely different. There was absolutely no doubts or hesitation. I was absolutely sure. Kay.

If you think they have something in common besides the fact that they are single go for it or, like someone else said, have a get together and invite them both. I've been on dates set up by friends where it is obviously we're just both single and there is no other point of connection between us; it's very awkward. And there have been times when the other person has a trait I specifically said I didn't like; for example I don't date smokers yet I went on blind dates with two different guys set up by the same friend and it turned out they were both smokers. So I wouldn't even consider another blind date set up by that friend.

I just finished watching it. Very clean show indeed, escpecially for a reality show lol. The episode I watched was Miami/Boston. All the guys seemed really great. Will definitely watch again!!

I currently have a house that is completely Dulux Pale Parchment (walls and trim). I want to darken the walls up a bit because the light coloured walls are hard to keep clean. I don't know whether to go one shade darker or two. I went three shades darker in a test area but it's too dark. Thinking of something like Dulux Warm Neutral or Arava or maybe a bit greyer and going Dulux Blind Date or Toffee Fingers. Thoughts or suggestions?