"So, we're all on OkCupid?!?"

EPIC FRIDAY.

I hate to admit it, but it looks like OKCupid shot its arrow of fun into my life pretty skillfully.

Using the Okcupid Locals app, a cute guy and I agreed to meet at one of my favorite happy hour singles spots, Dirty Martini. It was my very first use of the app and I was hesitant, but what the heck live a little.

-I get to Dirty Martini. Commence talking with cute guy [Greg]. Cute guy's friends are nearby. They say hi. I say hi. They seem pretty normal.
-Thirty minutes later, my also cute girlfriends show up. The whole lot of us decide to get a table.
-During dinner, we (there are six of us) all have a "Wait....we're all on OkCupid???" moment. Slightly awkward but hilarious moment where cute guy's friend (who is uber cute) suddenly realizes that he messaged me a few weeks ago, asking me to dinner, on OkCupid. Session commences where we pull our phones out and look at one another's profiles, and figure out why I had rejected him. Reason: bad picture.
-Two hours and three bottles of vino later (which is really quite excellent here, I recommend the pinot noir), the group decides, what the hell, let's karaoke.
-We hop a cab to Muzette, located in AdMo, and spend the next two hours singing/dancing/screaming/drinking.
-Tip:  Muzette has private karaoke rooms, and a room service button for ordering drinks. Also, the remote control allows you to skip and load songs at will so you can fit a lot more into the time frame than with traditional karaoke.
-Over the course of this experience, my initial date [Greg] and I essentially pull the old switcheroo- he ends up giving his number to my friend, and his friend [Adam] (the one I rejected on OKC originally, you following all this?) and I exchange numbers. You might think this was awkward, but it actually wasn't. This is what happens when you throw a group of young, fun, attractive professionals together who wouldn't have met otherwise except that they all are on a dating website.
-At the end of the night, we agree that this was night was the most fun we had had in a long time. And I have a lot of fun, kids, so that's actually saying a lot.

So what's next? Oh right, Adam and I are on our way to a date this week. And my friend? Also looking forward to linking up with Greg. The best part? We've actually kinda had an organic meeting, met one another's friends, and tested each other's karaoke abilities.

Not bad for an electronic cherub.