*Deep Breath*

Ok, so i'm terrible at writing about myself in boxes. Will that do?

Apparently not. I actually am genuine, honest, friendly and positive. I havent read anyone elses boxes (well not the men) so i imagine that makes me say the same things as everyone else. Ok - i have a crocodile. Nah, no i don't.

I try very hard to be nice to people, even when theyre making it very difficult to do so! I am capable of making a decision and i can defend my point of view if i have to and i'm sure theres a good reason to. If theres not, well i'm capable of walking away from an argument. I don't think it makes me less of a person to lose a row now and again.

I find it a little annoying that no-one told me that there would be good days and bad days - yet here they are. I'm pretty good at handling the good days and I'm working so very hard to handle the bad ones.. I'd be happy for anyone to give me a hand with those!

I'm not shiney and i'm not perfect. I have two little boys that i see at weekends and they are, but I'm just their dad and i like to build them train tracks and play games with them. I think that they think I'm shiney and perfect.

I like to be out and about, i walk a lot. That said i also quite like being in the house and i read a lot. I think i work hard and i like to think that i'm good at what i do. I certainly dont hate it (most days) which has to be a win. I don't feel that the job that i do defines me - actually i can think of few things worse than being defined by your job - but i do feel it makes me a happier person all said.

I'd like to meet someone - but the fact that i'm here on a dating site might give that away. Who would i like to meet? For a long time i thought it would be a female me, but - er, no. I'd like to meet someone close enough to have things we can do together but with enough of their own interests that we're not becoming a single entity...

So feel free to say hello, obviously.

That would depend on the person. usually however i suspect i would have 2 coffees and 3 beers before i arrived (for the nerves) which would make me appear shaky and stupid. Then I'd ramble on about nothing for a short while and forget why i was there. I'd smile a lot, panic and feel a bit sick. To be honest if you wanted a second date It's probably love.

It won't be the beach. Let's face it - who ever said 'well why don't we go for a walk down the beach' to someone they'd never met! Don't get me wrong it's a lovely place but would i walk along a deserted stretch of coast with a stranger?

UPDATE: Ok, its been to Commitee and it might be the Beach. If you insist. And i like you a lot. And theres nothing else on. And i'd been up until three the morning before. And i can look at a lighthouse. Probably best not to push it though. Just tell me its a drive. I'm kinda stupid like that.

But it won't be painting myself blue and speaking spanish in a forest. I cant speak spanish.

And seriously, I'm not up for your husband looking through through the window or whatever. Thanks and that - but no. Its single, not desperate.