Dating: Step your game up
When you find yourself stuck in a dating rut, you probably don’t even realize that you have started to let things slip. Your efforts become less then enthusiastic. You start going through the motions. This is the best time to take a break from dating and focus on something else.
The dating scene in Atlanta is all about image and personality. You want to be able to stand out and make a connection with someone you find attractive. If you are not into it, it definitely comes across as aloof, uninterested, or obnoxious. Sometimes we have to step our game up and become a little more sharp!
Do you ever feel as if you are in a dating rut? What are ways to break out of it?
What are some ways to step your dating game up in flirting, mingling, or approaching someone you are interested in?
Happy Friday!
By Wise Diva, Misadventures in Atlanta Dating Blog
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Comon Cents
September 14th, 2012
1:05 pm
Playing catch-up!
swiss~ I have not read Goblin Market, but I will go on Amazon and see if I can download it to the iPad tonight! I am with you. I like the more suble erotica rather than the bash you over the head, over the top, “OMG stop, no one really has sex like that!” type of novels.
Single and Happier "Life Happens!"
September 14th, 2012
1:06 pm
C zune is not a phone, it’s works just like the Ipod
Comon Cents
September 14th, 2012
1:07 pm
S/H~ I have a Zune ( My bro used to work for Microsoft. That’s the only reason I had ever heard of it) Bt I haven’t used it for years. Have they really come up? Maybe I should pull that thing out of the box…
Celisea
September 14th, 2012
1:09 pm
Lady – lololol
Single – I with you there. Folks wanna be grown, go on then and get your “grown folks” on. Just make sure you pay the way, because being grown comes with a pricetag.
Okay, I do remember looking at it a hot sec. I moved from the BB to IPAQ which totally died on me and I had to go back to the BB. I was sooo happy that crap was discontinued…lol I say do what works for you and your pockets. Trying to keep up will cause you to go broke.
So you’re a techie it seems. Okay, cool. You studied or just dabbled until you learned some stuff? I know I’m getting old now because I’ll call my nephew without even trying most times…lol Bad to say. Sort of like when my moms and pops got their first VCR years ago and called me to hook it up because they treated it something that arrived from Mars…lol
Single and Happier "Life Happens!"
September 14th, 2012
1:10 pm
Comon come up to what? I only use mine to listen to music. My nephew works for Microsoft. I’ve always here apple(crack) kills (LOL) Are you one of those that goes around taking pictures with your Ipad?
Celisea
September 14th, 2012
1:10 pm
Single – Ohhhh, then I didn’t look at it. I guess it back to “I never heard of Zune” Let me go back, I thought it said it was MS version of the Iphone. No?
Lady~favor ain't fair! :-)
September 14th, 2012
1:10 pm
hilarity~
Celisea
September 14th, 2012
1:11 pm
Iphone vs Ipad…got it
Celisea
September 14th, 2012
1:11 pm
Ipod not Ipad…now, got it
Single and Happier "Life Happens!"
September 14th, 2012
1:12 pm
C to keep up in my job, you really have to be technology savvy, if you sit on the side lines you get left behind
Celisea
September 14th, 2012
1:13 pm
Lady – I just need something to work…lol I’m still falling for the Iphone. I don’t do music that much. Only if time affords me or I’m in the car. Otherwise, not into music like that.
Celisea
September 14th, 2012
1:14 pm
Single – Gotcha. That almost goes without saying now in just about all fields.
Celisea
September 14th, 2012
1:15 pm
The ballplayer is so fake. He walks around with his Ipad fronting.
Celisea
September 14th, 2012
1:15 pm
BTW, I got on the elevator with him a couple of weeks ago. Dead silence.
Lady~favor ain't fair! :-)
September 14th, 2012
1:16 pm
fakeness seems to rock see~ lol
Celisea
September 14th, 2012
1:17 pm
Lady – Yep. He’s got a new baby, who btw is sooooooo pretty, She got it all from the mommie apparently, and he’s showing pics to anyone that will look or listen. We did a client visit and HE PULLED OUT HIS IPAD, showing pics. Needless to say the rest of us was looking around.
Single and Happier "Life Happens!"
September 14th, 2012
1:18 pm
C, it’s funny I love music have alot of old albums, put all the music on my zune, but I only listen to it when i’m doing yard work, in my truck, or traveling (LOL) I haven’t hardly listen to the radio in almost 2 years.
i'm swiss
September 14th, 2012
1:19 pm
Comon — You can get that poem, and entire collections of Rossetti’s poetry for free on iBooks. I would assume the same would be true for kindle.
i'm swiss
September 14th, 2012
1:20 pm
Or you can just read the full text here:
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/roset01.html
Celisea
September 14th, 2012
1:22 pm
Single – You still have albums??? You have a turntable? You listen to those albums?? That’s cool, really. Awww man you just took me back some years. Although I wasn’t even 10, I remember my older sibs having every Motown record that was ever sold…lol We have a hifi (I think it’s what they were called). The turntable on one side, the radio on the other and storage in the middle for albums.
Celisea
September 14th, 2012
1:22 pm
we “had”
Celisea
September 14th, 2012
1:25 pm
Single – So how do you keep up with current artists if you’re not listening to the radio? The internet? TV?
Comon Cents
September 14th, 2012
1:30 pm
S/H~ You said that the price of them had skyrocketed. I assume (very carefully) that they must have upgraded somehow because it was getting beat out by the ipod. Mine is still in the box. LOL! My bro won it from some marketing contest they had going on and he gave it to me.
C~ I never really listen to the radio (other than morning shows) but I use Spotify and it recommends new music to me. That’s how I find it. IDK about S/H.
swiss I will check it out when I get a second. I have saved the link . Thanks!
Single and Happier "Life Happens!"
September 14th, 2012
1:39 pm
C I really don’t keep up with new artist, just not into the new music. I know more about some of the new artist than I want to know, and I’ve never heard anything that they sing (LOL)
C I have a turntable hooked up to my computer, that’s how I got all the music onto my zune
Comon they upgraded the technology things, but they still basically do the same thing.
Blackfoote: The Real Blackfoote
September 14th, 2012
1:43 pm
Ah yes the turntable is making a comeback, yep hi-fi was here before wi-fi. I unloaded a bunch of albums after the cassette come along, then they went after the cd come out. To me the phonogram plays cripsier music than a cd does.
Blackfoote: The Real Blackfoote
September 14th, 2012
1:44 pm
“crispier” sorry I don’t know what a cripsier is either.
Single and Happier "Life Happens!"
September 14th, 2012
1:45 pm
Black I could never give up my albums
Single and Happier "Life Happens!"
September 14th, 2012
1:50 pm
Bring back the 8track (LOL) I miss hearing 4 songs at once (LMAO)
Comon Cents
September 14th, 2012
1:53 pm
S/H~ You can keep the 8 Track. No fast forward, no rewind. Want to hear a song again? Drive around until it comes back on.
Blackfoote: The Real Blackfoote
September 14th, 2012
1:53 pm
Single when I gave them up I had a feeling the turntable would come back in the near future. Talk about every album from P-Funk, Bootsy, Ohio Players, Earth Wind & Fire. Man those were the music years.
Celisea
September 14th, 2012
1:55 pm
CC – I’m so out of the loop…lol I didn’t hear of Spotify for the first time until like or week or so ago, on here.
Single – I have a turntable hooked up to my computer
Impressive my man. Don’t know how that’s done if it’s an oldschool player but hey, apparently it can be done.
Blackfoote – I hear you chiming in on the oldschool stuff…lol
Single and Happier "Life Happens!"
September 14th, 2012
1:57 pm
Now counselor, you know i was being sarcastic, I’m waiting for what’s an 8 track (LOL)
C, I did have my old school turntable, hooked up, I got one with USB last year.
Black, still have alot of those on albums and CDs
Blackfoote: The Real Blackfoote
September 14th, 2012
1:58 pm
Remember when the cd came out the music was suppose to be crystal clear and have all this clarity. When the laser light burn out the cd player is history.
Celisea
September 14th, 2012
1:58 pm
Blackfoote – My brothers would agree with your 1:53
My dad had an 8track player in his yellow cadillac. He was also sporting an “open the red sea” part in his fro…lol Remember Arnold from Different Strokes and that big ole part in his fro? That was my daddy.
Celisea
September 14th, 2012
2:00 pm
Single – I did have my old school turntable, hooked up, I got one with USB last year.
That’s funny. All I can picture is a 25 year old turntable rigged to the computer…lololol
Blackfoote: The Real Blackfoote
September 14th, 2012
2:02 pm
LOL…….@Cely I worked with a guy that sported a part in his fro. You’re sending me down memory lane now.
Willie Dynamite
September 14th, 2012
2:03 pm
What happened to old school House Parties? Dayum I miss those.
Blackfoote: The Real Blackfoote
September 14th, 2012
2:04 pm
That is a funny twist phonograph meets computer.
Exiled!
September 14th, 2012
2:04 pm
Swiss(some of ur timid ones close ur or put ur hands across the top face)
Serena thighs wrapping around ur white boy(jnr) and working the muscles to dig in will make u toss Mrs Swiss
Don’tcha think?
Celisea
September 14th, 2012
2:05 pm
Blackfoote – Hey, how about a part with a receding hairline? Oh and those polyester pants with no belt loops and the shirts committing collarcide, where the collar reaches the underarm pit…lololol
Single and Happier "Life Happens!"
September 14th, 2012
2:06 pm
C my 25 year old turntable went out on me, but it was the same as the one I had hooked up before I got the USB, it wasn’t hard to do, I even transferred some of my old cassettes to my computer.
Willie Dynamite
September 14th, 2012
2:06 pm
Speaking of Old School, Where is Leggs?
Exiled!
September 14th, 2012
2:06 pm
I thought Common had the raaaah muscle for Serena what happened ?
i'm swiss
September 14th, 2012
2:06 pm
Cel — You need to get on Spotify. Never need to buy music again. Plus, it’s easy to share / get recommendations from friends. Look me up on there if you ever want some recommendations for obscure whiteboy tunes.
Celisea
September 14th, 2012
2:07 pm
What happened to old school House Parties?
I remember my sister having a party and had a “blue light”, everybody was “slowdragging”…lol I was banned cause I was a kid. Still, I got my peek on.
i'm swiss
September 14th, 2012
2:08 pm
Me.lo — It appears Serena has a taste for Anglo-Saxon Whitesnake.
Blackfoote: The Real Blackfoote
September 14th, 2012
2:08 pm
Willie D. man they don’t happen like they used to anymore. I got away with a lot of groping back in those days. It was a ritual for the guys to grope during house partys and surprisngly the girls loved it……….LOL
Celisea
September 14th, 2012
2:09 pm
Single – I understood you bought a new one. I was just commenting on how funny that must have been to see an old turntable rigged. Before today, NEVER EVER heard of such.
Swiss – Okay, I’m jammed up this weekend but I just might see if I can get on. I was digging most of the tunes you put out on the blog the other week.
Celisea
September 14th, 2012
2:10 pm
Blackfoote
I got away with a lot of groping back in those days = slowdragging
Lady~favor ain't fair! :-)
September 14th, 2012
2:10 pm
poppin’ in and yelling LESS THAN A HOUR C~
I want some wine too! Chardonnay please dry tart and bitter! lol