Happy New Year!

Wow... It may get her more dates but I doubt if it will land her a husband.  Personally as the economy dwindles worldwide I have noticed a dramatic increase in foreigners wanting to establish long distance love affairs with American women. I am not even soliciting a relationship with anyone!  I constantly have men from Nigeria, UK, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Haiti Jumping out of my inbox with broken English wanting to get to know me...  This is phenomena has had a marked increase in the past two years.  The great thing about it is that these solicitations have not blind sighted me because, I have met so many different people in my life I have had the misfortune/ opportunity to meet a lot of foreign men.  Some wanted to see me romantically but, I met a few who wanted to become and remained friends.  They talked to me about how the main goal of man men from other countries is to land American wives so that they could escape conditions of Africa.   I've even met men who offered to pay for marriage. They have no particular allegiance to finding a black woman or even a woman  who shares their beliefs and goals only an American woman... You can best be sure that she will probably open herself up to many people who are simply trying to find some stability in this time of turmoil.

It appears to be a move of desperation.  I feel her pain I definitely hope it works for her but it is highly unlikely. Women don't want to hear it but perhaps dating a regular guy with not so good an income will satisfy their needs as well.  Date a temp worker, or a trash man and stop looking for someone based on monetary value and level of skill if you are truly lonely.  But, if you have standards that will not allow you to date "beneath" you then you should probably wait.  She has opened herself up and is a virtual sitting duck with this.  What do you think?

For those waiting on the next installment FUN FRIDAY... We're taking a holiday pause and will return in full effect Friday January 9th.  I have some facts and figures to throw at you and I want to take my time with it.  

New Jersey woman using Web to find Mr. Right by New Year's Eve 2010

BY CARRIE MELAGO 
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Wednesday, December 31st 2008, 10:32 PM

 

   Neenah Pickett of Somerset, N.J., has started a Web site,52weeks2findhim.com (below), which she hopes will help her snag Mr. Right before she rings in 2010.

   She's looking for a husband - and she's giving herself just 365 days to find him.
 
   A New Jersey woman is launching an interactive Web site Thursday with the ambitious goal of tracking down her soulmate by 2010. 
 
   Neenah Pickett, a 42-year-old media consultant from Somerset, N.J., dreamed up 52Weeks2FindHim.com while working with a company on a social networking and multimedia site two years ago. 
 
   "In 52 weeks, I hope to find him. I don't plan to walk down the aisle, but I want to meet him," she said. "Come New Year's Eve next year, I hope we'll be together." 
 
   Pickett, a bubbly Michigan native who moved to New York in her 20s, is certainly no wallflower. She was once engaged - to a man who wouldn't quite commit - and has been on more than 100 dates with men she has met online. 
 
   But as time passed, Pickett began to suspect that finding Mr. Right was going to take a more targeted effort. 
 
  "You can't keep doing the same thing and expecting different results," she said of at
attempts to find love online, through friends or on blind dates. "I was just sitting there, thinking things would happen." 
 
   With her friends' and family's blessing, Pickett created the extensive Web site. It features a daily blog, videos of Pickett describing herself, testimonials from her closest friends - and, of course, a way for men to submit themselves for consideration. 
 
   Pickett expects other single ladies to use the site's discussion board, polls and articles as a resource. 
 
   Pickett - who is 5-feet-2, thinks her best quality is her lips and enjoys hiking and movies - isn't limiting herself to a certain type of man, though she'd prefer someone who shares her Christian beliefs and has a good sense of humor. 
 
   Though she comes off as practical and straightforward in conversation, Pickett's site suggests she's a romantic at heart. 
 
   For example, she admits on her blog that Barack Obamakissing his wife on Election Night "gave me goose bumps and brought tears to my eyes." 
 
   Pickett hopes to get a flood of inquiries and will even consider relocating for true love. "I'm more open to exploring different avenues," she said. "At this point, you never know how it might turn out." 
 
 
 
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         Here's the link to Pickett's web site
 
         http://www.52weeks2findhim.com/index.html