Happy Easter?

So, Easter Sunday is pretty much over and I'm two Easter eggs, a Lindt gold bunny and a box of Lindt chocolates better off. I predict that they'll all be eaten by this time next week. After the Easter stash has gone, that's it. I'm going on a chocolate free diet. I might even do the IBS friendly, wheat and dairy free diet as my tummy has been feeling awful recently. The last time I tried that out I ended up weighing 8 stone and, despite looking like a bag of bones with skin stretched over them, I still had cellulite!

Watched Doctor Who last night. Thought it was OK. No irritating (to me) Cardiff pretending to be London shots which was a bonus. Mum thought the episode was scary but I think next weeks will be scarier as it involves a werewolf.

Still haven't done any serious uni work :( I just don't seem to be able to concentrate at the moment and it doesn't help that I'm feeling lousy. I have this horrible feeling that the tree pollen season has started as I keep having sneezing attacks and my eyes are really itchy. A trip to the chemists to get some Claritin may be on the cards for Tuesday.

What follows is my theory on dating which I'm posting partly in response to keladeekadys claim that he is giving up on pursuing romance and partly because I just wanted to record it for future reference.

I have two really lovely single male friends, a former housemate and a former work colleague. I like them both as friends but I don't fancy either of them. I don't know why I don't want to date either of them, I just don't. Both of them complain that women just want to be friends with them and they ask me why. What makes the difference between a man you want to date and a man you want to be friends with? They also comment that women seem to want to date men who treat them badly. In the end I came to the conclusion that most women want a 'nice' bloke who treats them well and most men want a 'nice' girl who treats them well. A majority will have found a partner by the time they're my age (I'm 25) and will go off and live 'happily ever after'. Left over are the 'bad' guys ie. blokes who have no intention of settling down in the near future and the girls who keep going for them. I put myself firmly in the latter category. Of course there are still ordinary single people around, they just have to navigate through all the people who are wasting time in the middle which isn't easy. It probably works vice versa as well; I'm sure there are 'bad' girls out there who are using blokes with no intention of settling down with them. Obviously, this is a simplistic view but its based on my own experience. Of my good female friends: two are married, one is engaged and five are in long term relationships. Only two are actually single and they fit into the category of being 'nice' people who are trying to navigate through the dating game. I always (with one exception) seem to end up in 'unconventional' relationships as does another friend. I'm not sure I'd know what to do in a 'normal' relationship any more, I'm so used to being long distance with Cardiff bloke!

So that's my take. I think most of 'bad' guys and the girls who like them end up settling down eventually. Basically, there are people out there so don't give up. It's just a case of finding them and realising that it's good that people of the opposite sex want to be your friend too.

On a completely different note: Five are showing the TV movie 'Murder in Greenwich' on Wednesday afternoon. A TV movie being shown on Five in the afternoon would normally be of no interest to me whatsoever however this particular effort was filmed in New Zealand and features Beth Allen, the undisputed queen of 'The Tribe'. I'm off work on Wednesday so I'll be tuning in. I bet it's dreadful!