Rule #76: No excuses, play like a champion

Good morning everyone!

Hope all is well in your world this Thursday! :)

If you're new here this morning be sure to scroll down and check out my welcome message so you all know what you're in for.

I got a question from a Marquette friend of mine that is definitely worth addressing right away, so before we let the blog go where it will (hopefully into make you giggle territory), I think it's good to have a DTR (define the relationship) entry.

A lot of people have asked whether or not I'm going to tell the guys that I'm communicating with that this adventure is partially a work assignment and that I'm blogging about it... which may mean I'm blogging about them.

Seeing as these guys are all part of the body of Christ, I have positively no intentions of turning them into Britney Spears and sharing every single little detail about their interactions with me. That's not fair and definitely breaks the Golden Rule.

Therefore I am announcing the official rule of the blog:

I promise to never reveal any pictures, screennames, or ridiculously personal or identifying information on any of these guys. I shall treat all of these nice gents the way I would like to be treated.

As for letting the guys know that I'm partially doing this for work and blogging about it, I'll determine that with each guy as we go along in our online courting. Obviously the guys in the Milwaukee area will have a heads up. Definitely when we get to the point where we're past the winking and sending flirts stage it will be brought up. I refuse to let this turn into some "How to Lose A Guy in 10 Days" fiasco.

To set the record straight on my own personal intentions with this endeavor...

-- I am single. I am Catholic. I'm open to any relationship-- whether friendship, dating, whatever I may find on these sites. I'm going into this foremost as a young, single Catholic woman. I'm not initiating relationships with any of these guys for the sake of a story. If I send a guy a smile, I do it because I mean it. If I respond to a guy's request to chat, I do it because I want to.

I'll admit, if it wasn't for the paper, I likely wouldn't have signed up for an online dating site (much less five at one time) for a good ten years or so. But since I've got some great folks standing behind me and it's bound to make for a great story-- even if five months from now I'm still single (and mingling!), I figured why not.

So now that we've got all the basics out of the way, let the dating (and fun) begin!