Stella (S)- She's a rocker chick, legs for days in her skinny jeans, multiple tattoos and sports an even DOZEN body piercings. The girl can master the lyrics to any song after only hearing it once. She’s a walking iPod. True to her Hispanic roots, this latina's got an affinity for spicy foods…and we don’t mean the over-the-counter salsa with “heat”…we’re talking inferno magma quality. This chick puts chicken sauce on jalapeños as she eats them out of the jar for crissake! It's amazing she still has taste buds. But don’t let this girl fool you with her rebel ways she’s a smarty pants too, having earned her Master’s degree by 24. She is a social worker devoted to working with recovering drug addicts that are in treatment.
Bella (B)- She, on the other hand, finds comfort in all things girly. Curvy and gifted with a well endowed rack that has evoked comments from even the most flamboyant of gay men. And after years of competing in pageants, she has a keen eye for anything sparkly or bedazzled. She prefers a dress and heels over pants and flats any day of the week. She's sarcastic and takes pride in having an arsenal of cheesy pick up lines. Doesn't like being told that she can’t do something (the proud owner of a pink Ms. Fix It Tool Kit) and she thrives off of keeping a busy schedule - works fulltime, an intern for a nonprofit, volunteers for a 2nd nonprofit, is in the process of starting her own business and applying to law school.
Reader's Digest Version: We’re opposites. But opposites attract, right? The ying to each other's yang. And as one might imagine…our tastes in men are equally as *eh hemm* “diverse.” While Stella likes her men tattooed, gauged and with an appreciation for music (aka the non-dirty Seattle “hipsters”); Bella prefers men athletic, clean cut and who have an appreciation for cooking. This works out great for us because while we’ve dated men from a wide array of ethnicities (even Cuban brothers at one point in time… that’s for a whole other blog in and of itself), there is little to no competition between us. Mocha/Vanilla. Leggy/Curvy. Blonde/Brunette. Girlie/Rocker. You get the idea.
Media has routinely bombarded us with the age old cliché that love awaits us all, and so as youth we dream of our Princes, riding in on a white stallion, rescuing us from the dark, depressive towers of our solitude, sweeping us away in a whirlwind of love and bliss. But that's what is written in books, the millions of pages in diaries worldwide tell a vastly different story. The romantic in all of us longs for the story of true love, someone who understands and anticipates our every want and desire, someone preferably tall, dark, and handsome. The tall and dark are negotiable. The handsome is not.
We remember hearing something as little girls that stuck with us from that moment on, and we'll paraphrase it here for you, “The purpose of dating is to find out what qualities you like and what qualities you don't like, and to one day find the person that embodies that ideal mate, possessing of all your positive qualities and exhibiting none of your negative ones.” It makes sense in its simplicity that we should strive to find that one perfect match.
In both of our attempts to find that perfect match...Well, let's just say we have had our fair share dating debacles over the last two and a half years. This blog is about the not-so-perfect matches and by not-so-perfect, we mean really, really so far away from being perfect.
These are our stories...here, for your enjoyment and education we will share excerpts of all the tools we've encountered, dated and otherwise had the displeasure of meeting along the way. This is our Tool Box!
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