52 Weeks to find him
 

I heard this lady on the radio this morning.

She is determined and also makes me wonder...





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 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.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008...ind_mr_ri.html


http://www.52weeks2findhim.com/

I think it's safe to say that this type of tactic would put absolutely no pressure on any guy she dates.

None whatsoever...I wonder if it would be a Vegas wedding....or secretly she has everything planned already and all he has to do is show up in a tux....?

Ummmmm.....
I haven't seen the site. (firewall at work)
But this sounds a BIT desperate. What's wrong with going out, or meeting people in chat rooms (hursh @ DSeid, lol) or traditional dating??

I feel like this would work if she were prettier.

I'm sorry.

Hey nikki hwo do you think 1/2 of SOC hooked up huh??

BTW...u did get the memo about the reunion right?


Anyways...yeah..trying to be hitched by the end of THIS year?

A BIT desperate? Let's drop the bit part and add 'a whole hella lot' instead.



Whew....I am glad somebody else said it....but face it...there is somebody for everybody...just waiting for the sequel from the guy -----> www.104Weeks2DivorceHerCrazyAss.com

Good Morning America did an interview with her about this "goal" and website. All I can say is good luck...I guess. :confused:

If that fool Drew Peterson can get married yet again, she can find someone too.

She doesn't plan to walk down the aisle, but she wants to meet him. So... in a year, she wants to be in a serious relationship? It might be SLIGHTLY entertaining if she actually got someone to propose to her by then, but to simply be in a relationship? It's not even worth the effort for me to click on the website.

And her quote, when referring to finding love online... "You can't keep doing the same thing and expect different results." Um, so... she's been on more than 100 dates with men she's met online. That hasn't worked. So now she's created a website ONLINE to meet her future husband.

Makes sense. :rolleyes:

DS:
lol.... how do you think I met the ex-fiance??!! lol
Yes, I did, and I wish I could go. It's the same weekend as my other family reunion. :(

Sen I:
Happy New Year!
Just STAY in the darn corner.. lol...

LOL dag it's either the corner or the hand basket!!!

And if she succeeds, she can sell the movie rights. Then, we'll have yet another fantastic Meg Ryan/Sandra Bullock movie.

Correction Angela Bassett/ Sanaa Lathan...directed by Tyler Perry.



and I got another question (I am so going to Hell for this) out of all of these dates, how many has she slept with....?

Yeah, my bad, didn't read the article.

Maybe Queen Latifah?

She looks more like a homely version of Alfre Woodard (who I think is lovely).

This won't become a Perry or TD Jakes movie unless there's a religious or faith spin to it. I didn't read the website but her publicity stunt just makes me think of "he's just not that into you."

I can't wait to see He's Just Not That Into You in the theater, btw.

Your post is evidence that she's opening herself up to scrutiny. Not love.

nah...come back...


But of course...I mean even hearing her on the raido this morning, she had 4 dates lined up this week and booked next week and so on, so the question and a few others are going to be asked...as a matter of fact, let's ask this one...with what she is doing (without Flava Flav and ABC's help) how does she plan on cultivating and sustaining a natural relationship if she has 'so many men' and so little time in between all the dating that's going on?

Now...on the flipside...to all Black women everywhere...if this (average looking) woman can get 4 dates in a week and be booked solid til God knows when, us Black men don't wanna hear shyt about there is "a shortage of Black men." LOL

:rolleyes:

Save this shit for another time.

The NY Daily News photo is much cuter than any of the website photos, but sheesh. Not cute. And desperate.

Why are there so many desperate-ass black women out there airing their dirty laundry? Makes the rest of us look bad...:mad::o:eek::D

Where?

And none of this is salient enough to make black women look bad. ;)

In my experience people tend to find someone when they're not looking. Happened for me, happened for my brother, and 98% of my married friends.

In fact, most of my single friends who ARE looking haven't been in a relationship since they started looking.

I hope she finds him, though. Everyone likes a happy ending.

Exactly what I was thinking.

It happened for me.

I wasn't in the mindset for a relationship and HE found me at the least likely venue. LOL

Made me put my pimp cup down. :)

Right. I was coming out of a relationship and the last thing I wanted was another relationship. My brother did not intend to meet and fall in love with one of my roommates (and get married and have a baby on the way).

But, I do understand that the older you get, the chances of that type of hook up happening get smaller. Especially when you add criteria to the relationship.

I'm not saying that wanting someone who shares Christian ideals is wrong (it certainly isn't!), but by adding "should haves" to the equation you limit your dating pool significantly.

My dad's having a hell of a time finding someone to be in a relationship with. There was a woman he was friends with that he wanted to date but they did not want to date him (when a woman has been single for almost 50 years, you have to think there's a reason. Not that she's a lesbian necessarily, but maybe she enjoys keeping her own company or her life is too full already to add a serious relationship) or there have been women that want to date him but he does not want to date them. A friend of his really wants to be in a relationship with him (and she has told him several times), but she's 10 years older than him and he doesn't want to go through losing a wife again.

Of course, I think dad jinxes it by putting too much pressure on marriage, as well. Of course, when I suggested maybe he could be neighbors to a woman he dates (he is looking to move) or they could live together, he acted like I told him that he should sleep with every single skirt in town.

Happened like that for me as well.

Poot on all of you. :(

$5 bucks the same dating site hopping greekchatters (I won't mention any names lol) will be on that dating site too.:rolleyes:

ETA: I just read that she's 42 and she still hasn't found a guy?:eek:....Oh dear God!:rolleyes:

Im sorry did you say www.craigslist.com?

If it makes you feel any better (or assuages any fears, real or perceived), I would choke a kid to have more desperate black women in my area.

I almost choked on my Sprite...thanks!

:confused:

u know some people find 'love' on craigslist now right?


hahahaha

Me too. I agree with this post 100%.:)

LOL.

And wow to that website. Could she have made it more ... time-consuming? Doesn't she need to preserve her time to meet someone and fall "in love" with this deadline looming?

I sense this is someone looking for a book deal at the end of it all more than someone really looking for "him". But whatever.

Why does this woman's website remind me of this particular youtube?

Basically, gwirl, he's hiding from YOU!!! :eek:

Oh well, whatever, good luck with that!