Like Santa Clause, it only comes once a year. Are ya'll ready to throw down and get crazy for them flowers and chocolates? I know I am!

People confuse what Love actually is, they think it is butterflies, and all rosy all the time. Love is not just a feeling, Love is an action. Love is something you have to choose to do, because you care about a person. It's not fleeting...infatuation is.True Love is very difficult...for everyone. Sometimes choosing to love is easier on some days and more difficult on other days. But it is again something you must choose.

Well, that part wouldn't bother me at all, given that I understand standards are entirely subjective anyway.

The part that bothers me is the fact that I just don't see anybody suitable anywhere I look; maybe if I knew some people locally, my chances might improve.

So I take it that some of you were'nt very big fans of the Dating Game show.

I can see it, but if someone ALWAYS wants to go on group dates, that's just a bit odd.

Saw something on another site that I hadn't seen before.

There was a girl who said something along these lines in her profile: "Don't hesitate to write me. Even if we don't end up dating, we could be good friends and fix each other up with people we know."

OK, I have seen the occasional "I'm setting up this account for my mother because she needs to find a good man," and such -- the "intervening third party" concept. But I've never seen anyone make the suggestion that people could just get to know each other on a dating site and fix each other up.

The idea intrigues me because a.) pretty much everybody I've ever been involved with was someone I met through a friend, and b.) I do get e-mails from people who say things like "My friend likes you but she's intimidated by your writing," etc.

I'm just wondering if anybody sees this as a viable option.

I'm skeptical because the "fixer-uppers" I knew in the past were people who really knew me. They were like sisters to me, although I never had an actual real-life sister. But I knew they weren't going to hook me up with an arsonist, for example; which is exactly what the first girl I met from a dating site turned out to be.

And there are a few people -- only a few -- I feel I know well enough on line to be able to trust their judgment about this sort of thing, although it doesn't really matter since they all live too far away to provide any useful connections....

I've always preferred the "meeting-through-friends" option because of the inherent "screening process" that you simply don't get meeting people on line. And I'm not sure that an "on-line-friends-screening-process" would necessarily be as effective as the real-life version.

But I don't really know....

Bachelor/Bachelorette #1 - Strong willed and loyal, yet cynical and borderline insulting.

Bachelor/Bachelorette #2 - Pleasant, caring and sensitive to everybody, but highly likely to cheat because of their need for passion.

Bachelor/Bachelorette #3 - Boring and predictable, nothing really ever changes with them. Getting them to share feelings never comes easy.