Updated February 18th, 2010

Welcome to Gigi and Helen’s blog

More than thirty weeks ago I began to write my stories “The Adventures of a Thoroughly Confused Gigi” based on my true dating experiences. It was thanks to Carlton Smith, (executive editor of Troubadour 21 and an amazing writer and poet) that I began to write, and that I found a home for my stories. It is now also thanks to him that I have my very own blog, adventuresindating.net where I will continue to post my Gigi stories. I hope that my T21 readers will continue to read my stories, and those of fellow writer and best friend, Helen Obispo on our blog, that will have not just our dating stories, but those of many other people out there.

Gigi and Helen’s Blog Staff members

Our Gigi and Helen blogsite staff is mainly comprised of myself, Gigi Roth and Helen Obispo. For those of you who do not know us, Gigi and Helen are our aliases. Otherwise men might not want to date us, if they know they could end up on this blog. However, Helen and I are scrupulously honest, and we end up telling men we meet that we are writing a book on dating… and then they actually WANT to be in a chapter!!

Gigi Roth is my alias. It was given to me a while back by Walt, a wonderful man I had the pleasure to date on and off for almost a year. Helen Obispo is one of my best friends, co-worker, and my main partner in crime in this crazy dating world. Together we are putting our dating stories into a book, “Adventures in Dating” that we will try and get published this year. Buy a Gigi and Helen t-shirt with our logo on it, and help T21 make some money for its upkeep and future plans. T-shirts can be bought on T21 at the cafepress.com ad at the top right corner.

You can read all of our chapters here at Troubadour 21. I have 30 chapters on Troubadour 21, and Helen has 17. All of our future chapters (from Chapters 31-Chapter “I found a man who stayed” -hopefully not too many chapters away!!) will be posted on adventuresindating.net .

New Gigi chapters will go up on the dating blog every Tuesday night, starting next week without fail… unless I’m on a date, that is. Helen’s chapters will go up on our blog every Wednesday. (She’s given up on dating, and intends to remain “manless” for all of 2010. Gigi might last until spring, but that’s about as long as she can take being manless).

We have extended the offer of creative director to Brie Dumas, who would be Gigi’s partner in serious crime if she lived in Michigan. Unfortunately she lives too far away. Gigi and Brie both went to school in Mallorca, Spain, although they didn’t know each other back then. Funnily enough Gigi and Brie’s brother had crushes on each other in high school. Not only that, but Gigi and Brie liked some of the same boys, and even kissed some of the same ones. Hopefully not during the same period of time.

Gigi and Brie found each other on face book, and still haven’t met in person, though they plan on one day going to Vegas, and having fun, flirting, drinking, and quite possibly getting arrested together. They have become each other’s lifesaver by text, since they both have the exact same tendency to forgive their men way too much. They know that they can turn to each other with their woes, and not get an “I told you so” or any negative remarks. They do try to stop each other from repeating their mistakes, with little success so far. They both need to stop giving these unforgiveable men more than one or two chances.

Brie has been helping Gigi with chapter ideas for many months now, by text and on facebook. She will be doing research on articles, dating quizzes, and will think up fun and exciting categories for me to write about. And since dating totally sucks so far, I will have LOTS of time to write, and I still have LOTS of past experiences to share. I may have written 30 chapters already, but I still have many more to extend on, or to begin writing about.

Gigi and Helen’s Blog Sections

We want this blog to be fun and exciting and to have our readers interact with us, by not just writing comments, but also by sending us their stories about dating, nightmares or success stories. Especially success stories to give us hope that one day we’ll find THE ONE.

We have so many ideas for our blog, and would like to help you learn through our mistakes, by giving tips on dating and suggesting what to avoid doing, and maybe even how to know if he is THE ONE or is just another jerk…

Weekly Updates

For now, we will have new articles going up every week on:

• Dating Tips
• Top “Ten”
• Success Stories
• Nightmare Dates
• Relationship Advice
• Romantic Movies, Books, songs, Meals
• What to do
• Gigi and Helen Statuses
• Gigi’s New Chapters

Dating Tips

Here you will find articles giving you tips on dating. Now keep in mind that these will be coming mainly from Gigi and Helen. They consider themselves experts in dating. They will get ideas, suggestions, and advice from their friends, some married, some single, and none of us claim to be infallible.

Top “Ten”

This section will have articles on top “ten” things. There will be lots more than “ten” which is why it is in quotation marks. Some will be serious comments, and some funny ones. Take all with a big grain of salt and a good sense of humor.

Success Stories

We all need some hope if we are out there dating, so Gigi and Helen will find you success stories by hook or by crook, by talking to their married friends, or people they know in successful relationships. We will tell you about their first dates, how it got serious, how they proposed or were proposed to, and how they keep their relationship going successfully.

Nightmare Dates

Here we will post stories sent in by readers or given by friends on those nightmare dates that were hilarious or, at times, downright scary. Gigi and Helen have lots of their own if they can’t find any from people out there.

Relationship Advice

Here Gigi and Helen will try and find advice on how to make your relationship work. Again please keep in mind that we are both single, divorced women. However, we hope that we have learned from our mistakes, and we will get as much reader input as possible.

Favorite Movies, Books, Songs, and Meals

We will tell you our favorite movies, books and songs, and share them with you. We’ll give you ideas on what to cook for that special person in your life, and share recipes.

What to do

We’ll give you suggestions on things to do on dates, places to go to, movies to see at the theater. How to have fun on a budget, or if there is no expense to be spared. Vacations to go on and countries to visit.

Gigi and Helen Statuses

Don’t have time to read our chapters? You will be able to see at a glance here how our love lives are going: good, bad, or nonexistent.

Gigi Stories
Under this tab you will be able to read the ongoing stories of Gigi’s love life either past or present. She still has many unwritten chapters about past men in her life. At this rate Gigi and Helen will have enough material for three books on dating. That should make us marketable to publishers, right?

Website Links

There will also be links to:

• Online Dating Sites
• Websites on Dating
• Love Quizzes
• Horoscope Websites

Online Dating Sites

The Online Dating Sites section lists some of the available online dating websites (with many comments from Gigi on them. I can’t be sued for honest opinions, can I?) and we will add to these as we find more, hear about them from readers, or try them out ourselves (purely for research’s sake, of course). If you know any online dating sites, please send us a link, and tell us how it works, and if you’ve used it successfully or unsuccessfully.

Websites on Dating

There is a section on websites that have dating articles and advice. I’ll try and post different ones each week. Please send me any links you know of.

Love Quizzes

There is a section on those fun quizzes women like so much, with links that take you straight there. I will try and post new ones each week.

Love Horoscopes

There is a section on horoscopes, and the one posted will email you free horoscopes every day. Gigi will add articles on which Zodiac signs work best together.

We Need Your Help!!

We need your help!! Please send us your nightmare dates and your success stories. If you met on an online dating site, send us your story and give us hope!! We will post new blog articles every Thursday, but will update our status more often, and add blogs to the blog section as we do new and exciting things that we want to share… or if we have a bad day… or just because

Male readers, please send us your stories too, because I know it’s not just men who mess up relationships!! So come on and give us the male persepective on dating, and tell us what you do wrong, and what women do wrong.

Email us at:
gigiandhelen@adventuresindating.net