Saul's Background Check-er Out-er.

A friend of mine was like, "If your life is so boring, then it's your own fault!  Go out and make it interesting!"  So I did.  I tracked down my old friend Brenda using a quick Employment Records search.  It only took me about five minutes.  So we got back in touch and had coffee earlier today.  See how much fun it is to be a people finder?  Now I'm bored again.

Not like this is news to anyone but: Americans don't watch soccer!  To be honest, I still haven't found a new project to give me a reason to find people after that massively anticlimactic reunion from a couple of months ago.  I mean, what's the point about people search to reunite people if no one really cares?  If no one actually wants to be reunited?  People are a lot more boring than I thought.  Boring.

After that boring reunion, I may never want to find people ever again.  Seriously, maybe my mom was right, I don't want to search people, I just want drama, like on the old Saved by the Bell plots.

They met, finally.  My aunt came to terms with the fact that her daughter was excited to meet her, so they met.  It was surprisingly grim.  No teary eyes, just an awkward, forced conversation, like: Hi, how are you?  So how have you been?  For some reason, I thought it would be more emotional.  My mom joked that I'm not a private eye, I'm really a daytime talk show host who just wants to see drama.  Ha.  I just want my people search to have importance to people.  Anyway, I doubt they'll meet again since the first meeting was so weird, but we'll see.  If you need a good laugh - and I know I did after that incident - check out this rant To LOLcats then buy vitamin to help with stress.

They met, finally.  My aunt came to terms with the fact that her daughter was excited to meet her, so they met.  It was surprisingly grim.  No teary eyes, just an awkward, forced conversation, like: Hi, how are you?  So how have you been?  For some reason, I thought it would be more emotional.  My mom joked that I'm not a private eye, I'm really a daytime talk show host who just wants to see drama.  Ha.  I just want my people search to have importance to people.  Anyway, I doubt they'll meet again since the first meeting was so weird, but we'll see.  If you need a good laugh - and I know I did after that incident - check out this rant To LOLcats then buy vitamin to help with stress.

My aunt calmed down.  She says she overreacted to the news that we'd tracked down her adopted daughter.  She still doesn't like the idea that it's so easy to find people or that we used people search to track down her daughter, but all the same, we're talking again.  Things are mostly cool, calm, back to normal with my mom, aunt and I.  And I think she'll come around to meeting her daughter.  She said, "I'm not ready yet."  Yet.  That's good, right?  It means that eventually she may want to meet her.  I showed her how to do a background search just so the entire process wouldn't seem quite so creepy to her.  She liked it, but mostly I still think it made her uncomfortable.  I left the room for a little bit and she'd come across this rant to post-its.  I guess she really wasn't interested in people search after all. 

Well, have I got some updates for you! First off, my aunt and newly found cousin: so, I talked to my mom about it and she knew about my cousin. Well, she knew about her existence but nothing else. She said she was always pissed about my aunt's decision and felt like more could have been done at the time. So we decided that we would contact the cousin...and then see if she wanted to talk to my aunt. Well, I contacted my cousin and explained the situation and it turns out she had tried to find my aunt a few years back but without success...she didn't know about people search so gave up. She was very excited to hear from us! I explained to her how simple people search has become, and how we were able to find her. We told her we weren't sure about my aunt, and she said that she'd like to meet with us anyway. So, then my mom decided to tell my aunt about the lunch, and there was a big fight...suffice it to say, we've met my cousin and she still has not met my aunt. Sigh.
Back to the friend now--he and his new girl did indeed set me up with a friend of hers. Only the friend opted to bring another friend along to make it "less date like". Guess which one I liked? It actually worked out okay, because the original blind date wasn't that into me either. Brandy, the friend, and I exchanged numbers and emails and we've been out a couple of times. She just sent me this hilarious rant farm - to fourth meal. Our sense of humors totally click. So that's all that's been going on in Saul's world. That's a lot of drama for me actually. Heh. Hope this doesn't keep up!

Man, the holidays are great! But they sure take a lot out of me--so much that I needed a post holiday vacation, even from people search! So, it was great seeing the family over the holidays, but it was also a little disconcerting. I was telling my aunt all about how I search people, and she started to get really uncomfortable. I dropped the subject, but I couldn't stop thinking about her reaction, and finally, in a fit of pure curiosity, looked her up. And, well...I wasn't prepared for what I found. Turns out, my aunt had a child at a very young age. Her name is on the birth certificate, and I was able to use that to track down my missing cousin relatively easily. But now I don't know what to do. Should I talk to my aunt about this? Should I contact my cousin? I'm planning on having lunch with my mom this Sunday to discuss it. It's one thing to be able to find people, but finding out all this complicated stuff almost put me off the while thing. Almost. Old Saul doesn't give up anything that easily. ;) So, I was going to update you on my friend and his romantic ventures--so far so good. In fact, it's been going so well, he and she have been set on fixing me up with one of her friends...not sure how I feel about that. I've been enjoying the bachelor life pretty well up till now. But after meeting up with Elle and all them at the reunion, I have to admit, coupling-up has been on my mind. Meh...that way danger lies! Here is a nice distraction, from me to you--yep, another giantlist! This one is on euphemisms for the lower class. Cracked me up, hopefully will you too. And check out the links I so cleverly embeded in; I think you'll like them. 

Man, the holidays are great! But they sure take a lot out of me--so much that I needed a post holiday vacation, even from people search! So, it was great seeing the family over the holidays, but it was also a little disconcerting. I was telling my aunt all about how I search people, and she started to get really uncomfortable. I dropped the subject, but I couldn't stop thinking about her reaction, and finally, in a fit of pure curiosity, looked her up. And, well...I wasn't prepared for what I found. Turns out, my aunt had a child at a very young age. Her name is on the birth certificate, and I was able to use that to track down my missing cousin relatively easily. But now I don't know what to do. Should I talk to my aunt about this? Should I contact my cousin? I'm planning on having lunch with my mom this Sunday to discuss it. It's one thing to be able to find people, but finding out all this complicated stuff almost put me off the while thing. Almost. Old Saul doesn't give up anything that easily. ;) So, I was going to update you on my friend and his romantic ventures--so far so good. In fact, it's been going so well, he and she have been set on fixing me up with one of her friends...not sure how I feel about that. I've been enjoying the bachelor life pretty well up till now. But after meeting up with Elle and all them at the reunion, I have to admit, coupling-up has been on my mind. Meh...that way danger lies! Here is a nice distraction, from me to you--yep, another giantlist! This one is on euphemisms for the lower class. Cracked me up, hopefully will you too. And check out the links I so cleverly embeded in; I think you'll like them. 

Saul here with more reunion-related news. One of the gals from the party, Elle (who managed to get better looking with age, and why didn't I date her back in high school?) was so impressed with my ability to find everyone, she asked me to look up this high-end babysitter a friend of hers recommended. When she told me how much this woman charged I was shocked! But Elle's husband is some big shot lawyer and wants only the best for their twins (one boy and one girl--Elle brought photos and boy are they cuties!).

So I used this great find people site to look up this woman, and was actually surprised that she really was everything she said she was. So I told Elle to go ahead and trust her with the twins...even if I still think she's charging way too much to watch a pair of three-year-olds. Still, it reminded me how important it is to do background checks on anyone that's going to be working with kids. There's more great information on how to find people on this site too: find people.

Meanwhile, an update about my buddy. After I gave him the bad news, he confronted his girl with it, and she came up with lots of reasons why she was lying about who she said she was, but none of them rang true. It bummed him out, but he had to tell her goodbye, and I took him out to drown his sorrows in martinis, and while out, he met another woman! This time, I did a background check on her before he even called her the first time, and so far so good....I'll keep you updated.