Time for punishment – Meeting Two

We’re one month in to our Slutty Suppers setup; there have been dates, disasters (mostly for me and Miss Fifi) and fair bit of flirting. It hasn’t been clean sailing for all of us, well, any of us really, but I like to think that we’ve really done fairly well.   We set out with the challenge of just getting ourselves on line and looking by this V-Day meeting, but with differing degrees of success, we’ve ploughed ahead and have had a fairly eventful few weeks:

 - I went on the worst date of my life, followed by the worst ‘follow up’ conversations the world could ever have imagined. I’ve got a couple of other potentials lined up for the next few weeks, and I am already quite desperately trying to work out how to get out of them.  With attempt number one out of the way, I think the way to do this is going to be to get a lot pickier.

- Having had a mental month of work, T-Bag actually only just got her profile up and online in the last few days, just as she started to panic at the prospect of handing her profile over to the other Sluts as a forfeit for failing to get online.  She’s on there now, and we’re looking forward to hearing fun and exciting stories from her anytime now!

 - As you’ve seen, Miss FIfi started the month on an absolute roll, racking up the dates with boys who very quickly turned out to be ‘less than ideal’.  She’s slowed her progress recently, and whilst we’re scared that she might be getting a slight online phobia, I’m pretty sure she’ll have more luck with her shiny new My Single Friend account – more juicy gossip to follow.

 - After an insanely strong start, lining up a date within a week of first going online, SugarM seems to have bagged herself a nice young boy from The Real World. That’s right, she’s already completed a second date with a boy that didn’t even have to create a profile with excessive amounts of lies to sell himself. We’re all a little jealous, but more online fun is still anticipated.

 - Tits McGee has been the most successful POF user amongst us. We all started up with a profile on this site, but very quickly got scared off by the shear volume of crazy topless shirtless prisoners that were on there, but with a little perseverance, Tits McGee bagged herself a very eligible Irish man – and there’s another date with the same boy on the cards. She quite rightly got the trophy for most successful Slut this month!

 - It’s been a challenging month for The Sausage Hunter. Having been online and played this game in the past, she’s found it hard to get herself up and running properly. So much so, that Miss Fifi decided that it was time to take action on her behalf. That’s right, the profile was handed over, and Miss Fifi took control of who got a bit of a Sausage Hunter flirt. I literally dread to think what her inbox must look like this morning!

From our first fishing expeditions online, we learnt a couple of tricks to the trade that we would certainly be baring in mind as we start trying to hit all our targets for this month – we’ve got to message six boys and complete two dates from now. Challenge on!

The time has come - Meeting One

The time has come - the first few weeks of January have passed in a blur of healthy eating, self-improvement and minimal alcohol (I say minimal because to be honest, I failed at remaining dry for the month, but let’s not dwell on that!) and we have now found ourselves looking at the back end of January and the start of a shared resolution for the year. We’re taking the plunge, we’re creating profiles, and we’re going fishing for men online. Bold.

            Last night marked the first of our monthly Slutty Suppers Club meetings, a dinner party arrangement with a difference; it’s sort of like a book club, but sluttier, and with less books and more online dating sites providing the main stream of our conversations.

            As our first meeting, last night was less about the disastrous experiences we had (those details are still to come), and more about talking ourselves into the game again (now that it’s time to poop or get off the pot, as I believe the expression goes), with the very necessary aid of wine (yeah, yeah, yeah, I drank. Again!) So with a laptop to hand, and with all the key dating sites bookmarked, and ready for investigation, we made our plans.

            First up, names. In normal blog world, nicknames or personal details are more than enough to describe the participants in my sad old life, but with the freedom to chose their own character names, we have come up with the following: Philaperve, T-Bag, Tits McGee, The Sausage Hunter and Sugarminge. I’m a little sad that I don’t get to come up with my own utterly bizarre name, but seeing as wine is back in my life again now, I think that’s probably for the best – it would only end up being entirely inappropriate, and that wouldn’t be good for any of us…just don’t tell Sugarminge that I said that.

            So, we’ve got the names sorted, what about the game rules? You might have assumed that this was just a moral support group for those a little but wary of trying out online dating for the first time, and you’d partly be right. But also, partly wrong, because everything I do has to have a competitive edge, and so we have to come up with a couple of goals for us all to aspire to reach each month.

            Month one – from now until Valentines Day, we have set ourselves a fairly relaxed introductory target of getting profiles up and running, just to start the process off. Valentines Day evening will then be spent at some sort of vile Singles Night, where gin will inevitably be required by the bucket load, before we will be onto the first proper month of activity. Not only do we each have to have gone on two dates (only from people we have found online – any random arrangements are just for bonus points), but we also have to have taken the initiative and actively sent out emails to at least six hotties who we have not spoken to before – backdated follow ups and familiar faces are not allowed.

            It’s all in the name of fun, but anyone who fails to achieve the targets has to suffer the forfeit. Initially, we were going to make this a drink related challenge, but after further consideration, we decided that if you’re not using your profiles to the best of you abilities, someone else should do it for you. Therefore, failures will be required to hand over control of their profiles to the other Sluts to make some decisions on your behalf. This might only be for the length of time that we are still at dinner, but I think we will be able to have enough of an influence by then to get the ball rolling properly.

            It’s full steam ahead for the six of us now – I think it’s likely that we will all be spending the odd hour here and there searching through photos of ourselves and scanning other peoples profiles to get a better feel of how exactly we want to be viewed by the online dating world. When you look at other people’s profiles, it’s very easy to make snap judgements about who the crazies are, which boys are clearly lying about their life, and those who look fairly normal and are just having a bit of fun with their online searches, testing out the waters. Getting the balance right will be a bit tricky, but I’m just glad we’ve set ourselves nearly a full month to get this sorted, as I might need to arrange some sort of Photoshop and creative writing lessons to get myself ready for this. Darn, I knew I should have started planning sooner!