Out with the Old, in with the New

Happy New Year to one and all.

So, 2006 is now a distant memory – and perhaps for some midnight revellers living near me – more distant than most. And like plenty of people in blog land, twenty-o-six (why do people insist on calling it that?!) was an interesting one for me, and one of great change too.

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, there was my highly unexpected new job (I passed my three month review with such flying colours that the final six month review has now been dropped) but it’s my continual lack of success on the Match.com front that continues to bother me. Sure, it has been a bit of a disappointment, but on the whole it’s still been a worthy exercise – if only to help increase my confidence and self esteem ten-fold.

With the silence from my current Match.com “friend” deafening I’ve decided that there’s no time like the present to dust myself off and move on with things. So in a rather embarrassing twist of fate, a friend of my mother recently enquired whether I was still single. And when she replied with “is the Pope a Catholic?” her friend proceeds to ask whether I’d be interested in meeting her equally single niece.

Naturally, and judging from my lack of Match.com successes, folk my age who are still single must be weird and/or ugly and must be avoided at all costs. However, from what I’ve been told she sounds rather interesting and, given it’s a brand new year, I’ve got nothing to lose in giving it a go. As a result, I’m currently looking at a piece of paper with her phone number on. All I now need do is ring it.

However, given that there’s no profile to look at or any previous friendly banter between us, just how the heck should I approach the phone call? I’m sure starting with “Hello, are you that single girl that your aunt is desperate to pair off” isn’t going to be a very good place to start...