June 2011
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Explaination of Hiatus #2
So I’ve been busy not dating for a while. Mostly because I have been writing a webseries that is FINALLY complete! If you love reading about you’re Joneshaw adventures and think, WOW… I wish this kookie kook had a WEBSERIES please help the cause with even just $1… it all adds up and makes this single lady’s dreams come true.
ALSO, if you want to see what I’m...
March 2011
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Anonymous asked: Next person to walk into the coffee shop...you should probably go on a date with a girl to get a lesbian perspective in there!!!
Your bitch
Wayne
Your bitch
Wayne
plight-of-the-educated-woman asked: Hey girl! I have to say, the one thing I've learned is not to go on a date unless I'm excited about it. Like I feel a connection before I meet him. My friends suggested I go on as many dates as possible, because I shouldn't judge anyone I haven't met...but I was usually able to tell who I would trust and admire before meeting him (this is online dating only). Anyway, I know...
stickyisaslut asked: where you been girl?
craigslistguy asked: We discussed HowAboutWe.com once, but did you ever make any dates through it?
February 2011
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Non-Date #11: The Boom Boom Room/Top of the...
The other night was my boss’s birthday. We went out to dinner, as planned. Then as a “surprise” to me (even though it was HER birthday) we headed to The Boom Boom Room aka “Top of the Standard” aka THE most exclusive night club in New York City aka the architectural Notre Dame of NYC Bars. My night life dream come true!!!!
How we got in? I’ll never tell. ;)...
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Non-Date #10: Post V-Day, Non-Hangover
So Snuggie and I had a romantic evening of screenplay writing at a coffee shop and later watching our guilty pleasure, Twilight: Eclipse. In between my night out and my night in, I made a very masochistic pit stop: Union Square Park. So many gentlemen holding flowers waiting for their tardy significant others made me smile. Then comes the masochism.
I walked behind the arch, near the big,...
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Non-Date #9: Happy Valentine's Day [to me, myself,...
I’ve recently admitted to myself that I am in fact addicted to social media. There burns an artificial fire of a “need” to check people’s Facebooks, Twitter feeds, or google them to see what other member’s only site info I can dig up. It’s like this sick obsession with being a viral Nancy Drew.
It all started in grammar school. Yes, I know social media...
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Date #12 (for all intensive purposes): Tom Hanks,...
Why Tom Hanks? Because leading up to this date was a month of the all time greatest discourse I’ve been given the pleasure of partaking. Smart, funny, expansive (we’re talking Kafka jokes about my snuggie obsession) and all through FB Chat! All of this witty and exciting build up and here we are, finally meeting again in person for the first time since September, at the ACE Hotel in...
January 2011
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Non-Date NYE 2010 Addition
My company had a NYE party in a fabulous Manhattan eatery. My childhood, BFF was my date and then she ditched me after the ball dropped to meet up with her “smush buddy” a few blocks away. I hung around with my boss and her smush buddy to then go on to the St. Jimmy and then Greenhouse. The entire night, I was the only one flying solo. I made the most of it and had fun and in a drunk...
December 2010
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Non-Date Holiday Special
Basically, Shady Parkstein, everyone’s favorite date, turned out to be Shady for real. He bailed on my show, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, has made “other plans” for NYE and has bailed on almost every other date we’ve planned this month.
Last time we hung out was December 7th when I took him to see Dashboard Confessionals my all-time favorite band. He slept through the...
November 2010
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Dates #whos really counting anymore?: Explaination...
To my loyal followers, I’m very sorry for the Houdini act… I usually leave that role to the dudes I chase after. Let’s bring it all to the present and talk about what I know you all want to hear about….
Shady
Yes, it’s still happening. It’s now been four months. We’ve integrated friend circles. He’s...
September 2010
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Dates #10 +11: Tinker + SameName
So there were two other dates I’ve been putting off writing about since my “whatever-you-call-limbo-phase-of-an-almost-maybe-relationship.” Just bringing you guys up to speed as to why they did not help take my mind off of Shady.
First we had Tinker. He was a nice guy when it came to sharing dinner conversation that focused entirely on our shared professional field. Poor Tinker...
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Date #12: Shady, Shady, Shady...
So I know I promised two more dates… They’re on their way. I really need to get a retraction and an explanation off my chest. Taking the advice of my Music Theatre homeboys, Rogers & Hammerstein, “Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start.” For those of you who haven’t already figured it out, I have some anxiety and trust issues. The biggie that I’m trying to work on is the...
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Dates #8+ 9: What Happened with Shady.
I’m very sorry to all my readers that I stopped blogging for a while. Things got confusing. Basically, this post is to play “catch up.” Shady started out like my dream come true. We went on three more dates. We finally spanked the monkey. There was a lot of confusion in between all of those events. Irregular hangout and contact patterns. I found a makeup bag and additional pink...
August 2010
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Non-Date #6: My Birthday Party! + Shady’s BFF...
As planned the dress said, “OMG, Look at me… because I’m fabulous.” It was a perfect cocktail dress creation that had a corset top, tutu bottom, champagne lace throughout with a black lack panel at the waist adorned with a perfect satin bow. It was loud and it was my perfect birthday dress.
Twenty five of my nearest and dearest friends, including Shady and his male friend, Party Bud, were in...
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Date #7: Shady Parkstein, back for round three.
Reservations were for 9 pm. I was five minutes early and he was five minutes fashionably late. I was twittering about our date and jumped out of my skin when he snuck up behind me to say hello. Mostly out of terror that he might have caught a peak at what I wrote. Thank God, he didn’t. As per the rules, the Project is still a secret to Shady. “Sorry, didn’t mean to scare you.” I assured him...
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Non-Date #5: Sassy’s House Warming, vows-shmows!
So my good friend, Sassy, recently moved into this GORGEOUS and FABULOUS pre-war apartment with cathedral ceilings and hard wood floors in Brooklyn. To celebrate this gem of a find we of course, had a rocking party. She had a calypso band, wine, booze, food, and her sexy Cuban and Chilean roommates up on the buffet. If you ever wanted to know what Heidi Klum went through at parties pre-Seal, be a...
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Date #6: Shady Parkstein, Round Two Fit for a...
Due to all of my anxiety, I showed up ten minutes early. Then in a slight panic of having to wait alone in a bar full of suits, the terrific idea to wander around a nearby home décor store for fifteen minutes strikes and off I go. Checking out every mirror they have on display. Pacing like I belong in a hospital waiting room. Praying to Jesus, “to please stop me from sweating profusely.”...
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Date #5: MysteRio, the fine line between enigmatic...
Too bad Rockapella didn’t sing the theme song for this one; it would have made this date more bearable. Where in the world is MysteRio? The Portuguese-Brazilian hottie who reinvented the rules of howaboutwe.com to “I like your proposed date… Now let me take you on a totally different date I thought up myself dot com.” Then when the European Café-style restaurant he proposed turned out to be...
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Date #4: Shady Parkstien, forget Springsteen...
As promised, I test run the latest and greatest of online dating sites so my readers don’t have to (unless they want to anyway.) Here’s my first experience with the new site, howaboutwe.com. It was slow to start match-wise but surprisingly the actual date is the best I’ve been on ever. I was ready to give up on the site when my friend, Ms. M, perused through my matches and suggest I give it a go...
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Non-Date #4: Couple’s Party + Where have all the...
There comes a time in every single woman’s life when the inevitable happens: you are the only one without a boyfriend. Suddenly, all the girls you used to party and lunch with on the reg-sies are busy. No one wants to go out and make out with strangers in a bar… Really, who needs a wine tasting when you have an entire cellar for your tapping at home? It’s understandable and normal to want to...
July 2010
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Non-Date #3: The Ghosts of Boyfriends Past.
It was inevitable to happen but here it goes: the first post that gives a glimpse into the Joneshaw dating past, or as I like to call it, the Vault. A non-date event-filled weekend inspired this post yet, even in writing I’m trying like hell to put it off…
Meet Mr. Dinges selectively suave, charmer-asshole, the ultimate mind fuck, Mr. Big—minus the money, the impressive job, and at the end of...
::Gasp:: A MALE DATING BLOGGER!
I have a lot of female dating blogger buddies that I follow and “like” posts from on a regular basis. What I really find fascinating isn’t the fact that a male will blog about dates and feelings but the HUGE differences between what constitutes a “good date.” Also, my theories of 20-30 something men being solely interested in casual encounters is proven but yet...
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Non-Date #2: My BFF, FratBoy + Plans for my...
After years of being long-distance BFFs, FratBoy’s moving into the tri-state area. Since he and his awesome GF are extremely supportive of my blog (he heard the stories of woe firsthand about all of my previous prospects) FratBoy has volunteered to find the friend fix-up that I have promised you all for so very long. To celebrate/catch up/discuss my fix-up we went out for pizza. During our short...
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Non-Date #1: Bloggers Meet-up
In an attempt to bond with fellow writers and find a date with a common interest, I went to the bloggers meet-up. Apparently, these guys are really hard-core writers and I dig that. Most there had extremely serious and fascinating topics to blog about and most found it cute or audience grabbing that I blog about dating. Then there was the “Oh, like Sex and the City!” comment from a few but the...
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Date #4: S-M, The Long-Awaited Wedding Blog.
Hands-down, I had the hottest date of anyone at the wedding (aside from the bride and groom, of course.) Code-name being S-M. This perfect date takes just as long as I do to get ready, has a fashion show of outfits to get my approval of what to wear, is the DD no questions asked and no complaints, listens when I talk, laughs at my weird jokes, and dances the night away. If you haven’t already...
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Date #3: Hot-Beard, the Artsy Card Collector.
The first thing a “cool, dark, place” makes me think of is mold, the second is vampires, and the third is dive bar. Luckily, the latter is where Hot-Beard and I had our date last night. After twenty minutes of waiting, the door swings open and in swaggers an average-looking, too cool to be hipster (but still wears the V-neck undershirts with jeans and Chuck Taylors), with sapphire blue eyes, and...
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Date #2: Pepe La Jew, the well-dressed...
In typical European fashion, Mr. Pepe La Jew arrived at the Olive Bar at the W Hotel fifteen minutes late. The only thing that glistened more than his mildly perspiring face was the gold Star of David he wore around his neck. In the world of brownie points, French accent + Jewish + actually attractive = a wet dream on most days but this very classy gentleman was very much a reality. Conversation...
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Date #1: Paul Bunyan, the Misleading Coffee Caper.
Ironically and thankfully, one of my beloved gay BF’s was working behind the counter at this particular coffee shop. This proved extremely useful when Paul Bunyan did not offer to pay for my coffee… and that was only Exhibit B on how this guy did not even pretend to try. Exhibit A being the stained sneakers and tee shirt and the not-on-purpose kind of scruff. This might be a fashion statement for...
June 2010
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Welcome to the Joneshaw Project!!!
If you’re a friend/family member, thanks for your support in my zany endeavors. If your a stranger who happened to stumble upon this blog, congrats! I hope your interested to read about a year in the life of a 20-something chronicled by dates. As in, the kind two people who *hopefully* are attracted to each other go on in a formal attempt at getting to know one another. Whether or not you...