When I mentioned my favorite blog a couple of weeks ago it unleashed this crazy amount of hits to my blog.  By sheer coincidence, I mentioned reading "Single in the Suburbs" that morning and by the next day it had disappeared.  All of a sudden, all these readers like me were searching for Sarah and by the magic of Google, they were finding my blog on Milwaukeemoms.com instead.

It got me thinking that there were a lot of women (and maybe some men), like me, who could totally relate to Sarah and her single parenting lifestyle.  Clearly I am not the only one following her ups and downs!

Because my e-mail is a bit like my office, minus the piles, I have messages that are still sitting there that I never bothered to delete.  At the time, I just saved all my Match e-mails to a folder.  I just went back through the archives and had a few good laughs.

For example, read this e-mail that I got from a guy who I had literally sent one e-mail to, asking him what he liked to do for fun in his spare time (I kid you not, I am not making this up!):

"I enjoy many things for fun...kissing and all that goes with it is definitely on the list, and downhill skiing, the shooting sports, golf, tennis, riding my motorcycle (with you), riding ATV's (I have one for you too), swimming, hiking, and so much more...I also enjoy doing things that include the kids...the list is endless...Do you like to kiss?"

Puking was more what I felt like doing after I read that!

Another interesting response was one I got from a man who lived in Portugal.  He seemed nice, but I thought that the distance would be an immediate issue that would be hard to overcome.  Plus I thought his comment about meeting his family was just a little too bizarre for me.

I was thinking it would be fun to hear about some of your more interesting responses!  Since I am no longer on Match and have not been for quite awhile, I'm no longer living Sarah's life in that respect.  If she ever gets serious with any of her possible suiters, then we'll be on the same page.  But none-the-less I still find Sarah's experiences entertaining and I'm sure she is not the only one with stories to tell!

I got my Sara Susannah Katz fix tonight thanks to Sophie and Donna who sent me the link!  Thanks to all of you who also sent me the link before now.  Since the articles had stopped at installment 64 I hadn't held out much hope for the Match.com site; but what a great surprise to finally find installment 65 posted there. 

If you haven't found installment 65 yet, click here.

Enjoy!  (And make sure and read it before the rest of my blog if you want to be surprised!)

Now we finally know that Chris did, indeed, break it off with Sara.  It didn't come as a huge surprise to me since he really didn't seem that in to her.  And I definitely think she is better off without him. 

Not to mention that we are better off without him--he didn't exactly add a lot of interesting dialog to her blog!   

A lot of their interactions were almost painful to read and they couldn't have been too much fun to experience in real life.  I'm not sure when her next installment will be on this new site.  Wouldn't it be great if she upped it to once a week?  Regardless, I will be staying tuned and rooting for her as she continues her search.

I just got finished reading my favorite blog:  "Single in the Suburbs."  Click here if you want to check it out.  This writer, a divorced mom, posts a blog entry every other Monday about her dating life on-line.  I stumbled across her blog a couple of years ago and I have been keeping tabs on her love life ever since.  I find her to be witty, brutally honest and just plain entertaining.

And I think we have a lot in common.

I tried match.com.  My ex-husband had been moved out of the house for over a year and our court date was set.  He had been dating someone for about 10 months and I had accepted that there was no chance of us getting back together. (Yeah, I know...slow learner.)  I had stumbled upon Match.com by accident one day when I thought I was clicking a link to an article, and instead found myself on this online dating site.

After ignoring the invitation to "try it three days for free" or maybe it was "look all you want," I left the site and thought that maybe I had gone temporarily insane.  But then I was back a couple of days later and decided what the heck, it couldn't hurt. I really wanted to meet someone to go out to dinner with or see a movie. 

I've been on and off that site a couple of times in the last few years.  I haven't been on since last fall and don't plan on checking it out again. (I'm happily dating someone.)  But at the time, it was great.  I realized that though I never came across any single, eligible men that I wanted to date, in my day-to-day life--they were definitely out there.  As a divorced parent, it had renewed my hope that I did have a future I would be able to move on to, when for so long I could never envision it.

If you are newly divorced, and wondering where in the world you can meet eligible singles, you should check it out. And don't forget about the blog I told you about.  I find it so entertaining; and if you like it, you can read 64 installments right up front.  I hate that I have to wait two weeks to hear what this midwestern mom is up to next!  Personally I think it is a no-brainer that the guy she is dating now is not for her...