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    <title type="html">Houston Date Blog</title>
    <subtitle type="html">The single life and dating scene in Houston, TX</subtitle>
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    <updated>2010-06-21T23:31:48Z</updated>
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        <link href="http://www.houstondateblog.com/archives/14-Cell-Phone-Dating-Is-Kind-Of-Cool.html" rel="alternate" title="Cell Phone Dating Is Kind Of Cool" />
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            <name>Craig</name>
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        <published>2010-06-21T23:31:48Z</published>
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        <title type="html">Cell Phone Dating Is Kind Of Cool</title>
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                I've been considering engaging in text message dating... Mainly it is similar to internet chatting other than you send out text messages and get to connect with fresh people that way. I considered it would be entertaining to give it a try considering that I am just constantly working with my Blackberry. I eventually signed up to <a target=_blank href="http://www.houstondateblog.com/smsdating.php">TextNDate</a> and tried it out. A buddy of mine sent me the url over Facebook and seriously hyped it up, so i thought what the heck.<br />
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Immediately I met this lady from Sugar Land. She sounded very awesome, works out we are into a lot of the exact same tv shows and movies, and are around the same age. We actually made plans to go out this weekend for coffee so I am going to post how it went (and if meeting women with your cell really works out).<br />
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I matched many other girls too, a number of encouraging and some somewhat creepy, yet I made a decision to only give attention to just a few because it is a whole lot to manage! I wish I can figure out how to consolidate my contacts on my cell phone, that'd help to make this a lot easier to deal with. You will find an amazing number of females from Houston to choose from.<br />
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The greatest element about it was I can send casual messages while I was at work, at the mall, anything, much like I was texting my pals... Occasionally being stuck to the computer gets monotonous you understand? I had a very fun discussion with this one girl even while I had been out for a walk even! Regardless if you find yourself interested in learning the whole thing <a target=_blank href="http://www.houstondateblog.com/smsdating.php">take a look here</a> to check out TextNDate, I would recommend it for certain. 
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    <entry>
        <link href="http://www.houstondateblog.com/archives/13-Emma-and-I.html" rel="alternate" title="Emma and I" />
        <author>
            <name>Craig</name>
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        <published>2010-05-11T17:58:43Z</published>
        <updated>2010-05-11T18:09:49Z</updated>
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                Emma and I have not been out on any more dates since the last date I told you about in my last blog entry.  She had to go away for business to California for a month.  Usually her brother handles these road trips but he is in the hospital so he couldn't go and she had to.  We have been chatting on MSN and I think she is a really sweet girl but we have already ran out of things to talk about and that is not a good sign.  We will see what happens when she gets back.  She will be back in a week from now and I am going to get her to either come over to my place or I am going to go over there.  I really want to bang her and I won't be taking her out to any public places.  I am done with that action it is time to get up close and personal if you know what I mean.  I am pretty sure she is going to be really into me because she says she is on MSN but I just don't know if she is the right one for me.  The good thing is that I am still talking to a bunch of other girls.  I have been keeping my irons in the fire.<br />
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There is another girl that I like named Stacey and she is 26.  I went out with her on Sunday that just passed.  I told her to meet me at this cool coffee place called Empire Coffee here in Houston around 4pm.  I got there like five minutes to four and she wasn't there.  The place was packed so I grabbed a coffee and found a nice table to sit at.  There wasn't much left to choose from but I got lucky because a couple was just getting ready to leave and I snagged the table from them one time.  I was sipping on my coffee and watching people come in and our of the place.  I was starting to get worried that I had been stood up but finally at 4:15 she came in and stood by the entrance looking around.  She was very attractive and I felt kind of lucky that I was the one she was looking for.  I sat there watching her slowly look around the room and then finally we made eye contact and she came over and gave me a hug hello.  Anytime you have a girl give you a hug hello that you have never met before, I think it says a lot about how open of a person they are.<br />
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We sat and drank coffee for a few hours and she was really easy to talk to and she was good about maintaining eye contact.  I can not stand women that are too insecure to make eye contact.  We chatted for what felt like many hours and around 6pm I was hungry as hell so I asked her if she wanted to head over to a pub and grab some food and some beers.  She said yes so we hopped in a taxi and headed over to this pub called Firkin &amp; Phoenix Restaurant &amp; Pub.  It is your standard pub with all the usual stuff.  We grabbed a seat and ordered a pitcher of beer and 3 different flavors of wings.  She said she loved wings so I said fuck it and ordered 3 batches of them all different flavors.  We ate the wings and drank the beer and we were having a great time when all of a sudden a fight broke out that turned into a brawl.  We both stood up and it just seemed to get crazier and crazier.  The staff was involved in it too so we just through some money on the table for our bill and got the hell out of there.  We were outside waiting for a taxi when somehow we ended up kissing.  The taxi dropped her off at home, then I went home.  I have been chatting with her online since then and she wants to get together again this weekend. 
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        <link href="http://www.houstondateblog.com/archives/12-Kiss-Kiss-Bang-Bang.html" rel="alternate" title="Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" />
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        <published>2010-04-18T11:40:00Z</published>
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                Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog.  I know I have let a few weeks go by without updating but I woke up this morning feeling pretty rejuvenated and I wanted to make sure I got in a blog post while I was still i the mood.  Like I said in my previous entry, I have totally redone my profile and I have sent out a lot of messages to various girls.  What I did wa I looked at all the girls that live close to me that I liked and I sent out a message to each one.  The messages slowly came in but I think I am done with getting any more messages from that last wave I sent out.  So now what I have to do is everyday look at the new users that have joined.  Everyday there are lots of new girls that join the online dating site so you have to sort by new users so you can take advantage of those girls who just joined and aren't old news.  The good thing about the new girls is that they have not been on the site long and of course received lots of messages from guys.  The other advantage to this approach is that a lot of girls will stay loyal to that first guy that they end up talking to and they will stick with him and see how things work out before moving on to the next guy.  I am not like that, I try and talk to as many girls as possible at one time because I have learned that women are pretty flakey and life is too short to put all your eggs in one basket.<br />
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I have been out on a few dates since I started this process and I am actively talking about 8 different girls right now.  Each one is at a different stage of knowing them.  Two of them I went out with but there was no chemistry.  I liked them but they weren't into me.  At first I took this pretty hard but I then I realized it must just be my personality they don't like.  The reason I say this is because obviously they liked the way l looked enough to invite me over or whatever but once I got there, they didn't like my personality.  I am not too choked up about this now, but I was when it first happened.  I guess I am lucky that it was not my appearance they didn't like because that is something I can not change.  Changing my personality is something I can actually do.  I talked to my friend about it and he was advising me to playback the evening and think about what I might have done or not done or said or not said that may have turned her off.  It is really hard to be objective about these things when you are a highly emotional person like I am.  I have a hard time not taking things like this personally.  People always say to be objective and to not get emotionally wrapped up, that it isn't the end of the world, but it is easier said than done.  Advice is much easier to give then to receive and actually implement.<br />
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Let me tell you about a date I went on last night.  It was pretty good.  One of the girls I met, her name is Emma and she is 26 years old.  She works for her father at the family company.  They are food packagers and she works in the admin section.  It sounds like a reasonably good gig.  She has red hair, she is tall, and she is thin.  These are all the ideal physical appearance attributes that I like.  She has them all so it was really just a matter of whether or not I liked her personality.  I felt like drinking it up so I told her we should both each take a taxi and meet at the restaurant.  She said that Italian food was her favorite so I took her to this cool restaurant called Artista Restaurant.  The place was really nice inside.  I had veal and she had chicken and we had a brief conversation about the ethics of eating veal etc.  She said she had a sister who was a vegetarian and has learned a lot about the whole food industry and was considering becoming a vegan herself.  The dinner was cool, the conversation was ok.  I was trying to get a gauge on whether or not this girl was my type and also on what she thought of me.  I like to think I can read people pretty good and be able to tell if someone likes me.  I wasn't sure.  We finished dinner and hopped in a taxi toward her place.  I wasn't sure what was going to happen when we got there.  To my surprise she asked me to come up for a drink.  I went up, we had drinks, kissed and fooled around on the couch a bit then I left.  I guess it went pretty good.  We will see what she has to say now that it is the morning.  I haven't heard from her yet today but I am expecting to. 
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        <link href="http://www.houstondateblog.com/archives/11-I-do-not-understand-women.html" rel="alternate" title="I do not understand women" />
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            <name>Craig</name>
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        <published>2010-03-26T17:02:00Z</published>
        <updated>2010-03-26T17:02:00Z</updated>
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                Women are so god damn flaky it pisses me off to no extent.  I had gone out with Crystal like 4 times and we had sex like I dunno how many times and she said she really cared about me a lot and blah blah blah then all of a sudden she just stops answering my online messages.  I keep messaging her and finally I have to go to where she works and confront her and I still don't get a straight answer from her.  I don't know if she met someone new or just got bored of me.  It is very confusing and now I am fucking hella pissed off at all women.  Women are nothing but a fucking problem.  I canceled my membership to the online dating site after this event and I have just been moping around angry for the last two months.  I don't think men and women were designed to be together.  That or maybe I just have really bad luck when it comes to meeting women.<br />
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My friends are trying to convince me that I just have really bad luck.  I don't believe them but I promised them I would give this online dating thing one more try before I totally give up on the female race.  So sigh here I am, posting on my blog so they can all see.  Sorry it has been so long since my last blog entry but I have been very depressed like I said.  It is amazing how we as human beings can go from being in a shitty mood overall to such a great mood after we meet someone to quickly and instantly back to being depressed and lonely.  I know that I am a very emotional person and I am not sure if I will ever be happy.  I either have really bad luck, or I am just destined to be alone.  I don't really believe in destiny or any of that other crap so perhaps this is just all karma coming back to bite me in the ass for all the bad shit I did when I was a kid.<br />
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Anyways, I am starting fresh on the online dating site.  I signed up an hour ago and I have been working on my profile but I am not sure what to say.  I can't be totally honest about how I have lost faith in females otherwise girls will be like this guy is hella jaded and useless and they will not respond.  The thing is, I am so mad that I can't figure out what the fuck to say.  I think I am just going to go in and look at some other guys profiles and then just copy theirs or something.  Once I do that, then I am going to draft up a generic message and then send that message to all the girls that I think look hot enough to fuck.  Yeah I know I sound like a total douche bag right now, but hey maybe that is exactly what I am.  I have been told I have a shitty personality many times in my life and I certainly haven't accomplished anything useful since I have been on this planet.  Anyways I will update this blog again soon once I do all this shit and I am talking to some girls again.  I hope my mood changes. 
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    <entry>
        <link href="http://www.houstondateblog.com/archives/10-Tastes-like-peaches.html" rel="alternate" title="Tastes like peaches" />
        <author>
            <name>Craig</name>
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        <published>2010-01-28T16:21:46Z</published>
        <updated>2010-01-28T16:21:46Z</updated>
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                Last Sunday I went on my surprise date with Crystal.  She actually sent me a message on Sunday morning to bring some workout type of clothes and a change of clothes.  I was like wtf ok.  So I drove to her place and met her.  I left my car at her apartment and then we left in her car for our unknown destination.  I have to say I was very excited and happy to be with a girl who was prepared to take initiative like this in terms of planning a date and thinking ahead etc vs most girls who usually sit back and let the man do all the planning and work when it comes to going on dates.<br />
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So we arrive at this indoor rock climbing place and I was damn so this is how she stays so fit and fine cuz I have seen people on tv do rock climbing inside and it looks hard as hell.  I was very nervous and I was thinking I better do well at this or she is going to think I am a loser.  I felt like it was a test that she was putting me through and I wanted to ace the test and reap the rewards later.  So we go in there and she walks up to the counter and this guy Chad who works there is like "hey crystal what's up girl?" and I was like ahh she knows everyone.  So she introduces me to him and then he gives me a crash course in climbing and was like don't worry if you have any problems just ask Crystal cuz she is an expert climber and I was like damn really sweet.  She told me as we were getting prepared about all the different countries she has traveled to for climbing outdoor massive mountains.  I was very impressed and I have never met such a smoking hot chick that is also this fierce.  She suggested I start out on the noobie wall but being the kind of competitive guy that I am I was like no way let me try the wall that you do.  I asked her to go first and show me how it's done and show me the line she was going to use to climb the wall.  So I just stood there and watched her scale up this wall in like 2 minutes like freakin Spiderwoman or something.  By the way her ass looked great in that harness.<br />
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So now it was my turn and I have to say that things started out ok, but once I got like half way up I was having a hard time with one transition and she was like telling me what to do and it wasn't working so I just came back down and then she went back up and showed me that one particular part and how you have to swing your foot up to get the next footing or whatever you call it.  Then she came back down and I tried it again.  That same spot I got stuck on, I got stuck on again but after a few attempts I was able to successfully swing my foot up and get to the next footing and eventually I found my way all the way to the top and I was quite proud of me and so was Crystal and I definitely felt like I earned a bunch of brownie points with her.<br />
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After that we drove back to her place and we both took a shower and got cleaned up and changed into our other clothes.  She has two bathrooms so I used one and she used the other.  It was kind of weird and I was thinking about her the whole time I was in the shower and I was wondering if she was thinking the same thing.  How close we are to being naked beside each other and yet how far apart.  We had a drink at her place and then she called a taxi and we left for the restaurant.<br />
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We arrived at a place called Artista Restaurant and we just sat down and we both couldn't help smiling at each other.  She has like perfect white teeth and might just be the hottest girl I have ever spent time with.  I was anxious to get into bed with her and I was kind of hoping that after the club I would end up spending the night at her place because the plan was to go to a club after dinner.  We ordered dinner, had a few more drinks and were just talking about various things that people talk about when they are first getting to know each other.  Somehow the conversation switched to sex and we started asking each other what we liked and don't like in bed.  She said she really loves to get oral sex and I nearly jizzed in my pants.  I said well, I really like to give oral sex, then there was a huge pause then I turned and sid "check please" and she bursted out laughing.  Thing is, I wasn't joking, we grabbed the bill and as the waiter was running my credit card, I said to her "do you really want to go to a club, or would you prefer to just go back to your place?"  She said, no I don't want to go to a club, let's go to my place".<br />
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I kissed her for the entire 10 minute car ride to her place.  We went into her place and she poured me a drink and we sat on the couch sipping our drinks, kissing etc.  Eventually I just stood up and reached my hand out and she grabbed my hand and I said "show me your bedroom" and she lead me by the hand to her bedroom.  I started kissing her again, then flung her on the bed.  Let me tell you this much, she LOVES to get oral sex, and I had an amazing time giving it to her.  She tastes like peaches. 
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