The saga continues…

One key point I forgot to mention is during the friday night date with Mr.Halloween is the odd questions he asked:

Do you want kids?

Where do you want to get married?

What happened between you and your ex?

(This is a first date right???)

While asking him questions I found out the he likes Pop music from the late 90′s early 2000′s. His favorite bands are Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears. In fact in order to prove to me how “popular” these groups really are he played Backstreet Boys and Britney on the Jukebox, the ladies at the end of the bar where his new best friends… Did I mention he SANG along with them?

Ok lets move along to the second date which was planned for a Wednesday, that entire day I was actually excited to see what we were doing. I didn’t hear a peep out of him ALL day. Till I finally left work and was headed home I text him to verify we still had plans, he was supposed to call me on his lunch break, never did. So I am already kinda steaming at his lack of communication, I’m not even thinking about the fact that the night before he asked me on the phone if it was going to be a sleep over. ( I politely said NO because I had school early.) He was late again, I am someone who is always 5 mins late so for me to be ready both dates and he be at least a half hour late both times also got my blood pressure rising. We leave to go out to Dave and Busters I have never been there before so I gave him credit for thinking of something different.

We get there and walk straight to the back bar, where we find a private university party which has closed bowling. He proceeded to order a beer for me and a long island ice tea for himself. Mr. Halloween thought it was be great to bring up this bar etiquette article he read about ordering long islands, how they make you look like you want to get drunk or make you look cheap and you should avoid them. (Hello maybe you should have listened to this article!) We got a game card and stumbled around the place for like 30 mins I killed him in air hockey 7-2, that was about all the fun I had. When we circled the place for the billionth time, as he walked 20 feet ahead of me, he asked me what was wrong.(Your just noticing somethings wrong?) I told him I was bored, we agreed to leave and he stormed out to his car 30 feet ahead of me appearing pissed and didn’t open the car door for me.

We get into the car and he plays music, now we aren’t talking to each other at this point. He continues to play his music kinda loud, and sing! I finally ask him if he mad at me which I got a sarcastic yes I’m mad. We get to my house after the 15mins from hell and he asks to use the bathroom which of course I say yes. We hang out and talk for a bit to calm the evening down and then open up to each other a little more. (At this point I still kinda like him and just think he’s super nervous.)

We make plans to go out on Friday, I will bring over some wine to his place and we can relax after I get out of work. Plus I haven’t seen his place yet and want to. We also talked about sex on this date, I told him I wanted to wait until we really knew each other about a month at least. He agreed but still tried to get me to break that rule that very night. (Where’s the respect?)

Living your life vicariously through me…

A little history here, I started this blog as a way to express my thoughts about subjects that I might converse/gripe about with a roommate or partner. Being newly single and freshly roommate free I thought I would use it more frequently. Well I clearly failed on that front, long story short my life lately has been pretty mediocre except for my dating . I think I might have the worst luck to ever hit a Twenty something. Instead of recounting my dating history since last March I figure I would start with this last fool (I can’t call him a gentleman.) Eventually I will work those stories in when I having a dry spell.

Ok so this incident started on Sat Oct 30th of course meeting someone in a Halloween costume is probably not a fantastic idea, but hey we actually had things in common (besides the cheesy public make-out.) Did I mention we were in a bar/club? Yes I know what your thinking…. Run now! So he was a complete gentlemen that night and put his number in my phone when I wasn’t paying attention. He text me that night and the next day, shocking! We continued to text and Facebook chat for the week. His phone lagged in receiving text messages which was pretty annoying and hindered our communication. We agreed to hang out on Friday after I called him out on not making plans yet. (Maybe that was bold or bitchy of me but why beat around the bush.)

After I got out of work I rushed home only to have him be very late I kind of thought he was going to be a no-show! But he had a rose, that smoothed everything over, right?? We head to a local bar where he proceeds to order us each shots and a beer (When we met I was doing a shot of whiskey which caused us to start talking.) A part of me thought this was cute and another part of me thought it was not a good sign. We left the bar and headed back to my place talked for a bit and made out like high schoolers. Because we drank a little bit too much we fell asleep on the couch and he innocently stayed the night. We woke at 8am moved to bed where he slept in his sweater and boxers. (I’m laughing just thinking how weird it was!) In the am I swiftly kicked him out because it was just awkward. (This is when I should have just stopped myself!) But I didn’t and agreed to another date on Wed the following week.

Whether you like it your not Spring is here…

No one could have picked a nicer day out for the first day of Spring but whether  you knew it was Spring or not there were some bizarre reminders:

1.) Kids walking home from school in shorts (It’s a sign that they are freeing themselves of the layers of clothing and probably leaving them at school, because you know they didn’t go to school like that.)

2.) A rainbow actually appeared on both sides of the sun today (It was like something out of a movie, but there was not gold at the end of it I guess I am a day early)

3.) A lady bug made its way into my house tonight, it nestled itself in the carpet for me to find and that’s when I realized what a beautiful day today really was!

Now I am not one to ever be this cheery but some days I guess you have to just reflect on what you absorbed today and be happy it wasn’t 34 and raining.

The Grinch who stole Christmas…yes YOU!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year right? Well at least that’s the song I was singing in my head until Christmas Eve. I was anticipating obnoxiously spreading my Christmas cheer to all those who came to my attention. Thats what your here for right? I mean really anyone who goes out on Christmas Eve for dinner is expecting a good attitude because the server should be getting good money that night. In a prefect world everyone should be smiling so happily their faces should be burning. Well not so true! People were behaving as though they already got the coal in their stocking! I don’t understand where people learn how to tip, for 1 it’s a holiday you should be tipping 25% min it not my fault that you have no other option but to eat out. Go home and cook your own dam food! So sorry you daughter in law is half in the bag and you keep seeing her bra straps NOT MY FAULT! You didn’t get the snuggie you wanted maybe it will be under the tree!!!

 All I know is its Christmas Eve and I have a family I would much rather be hanging out with than serving you. It’s not so bad when the people are nice back to you and tip you well (AND YOU SERVE THEM WELL, I’M NOT ASKING FOR HAND OUT.) But, when people treat you like you have nothing else better to do in your life but to make 17 trips back and forth to the table for 1 thing at a time and interrupt you while your at another table…. You ruin my holiday TOO!

So, no matter how bad your day has been if your out on a holiday just remember the server has a family too and would much rather be somewhere else. Also Don’t act like she’s gonna make her money on someone else because if you think like that and someone else does then where is she gonna make her money. If a server is acting like they would rather be nowhere else in the world and is all smiles treat them like they are apart of your family for those few hours. 

So remember… There was a time when places weren’t open year-round, all day/night for your absolute convenience. If people stopped expecting things and realized what a treat it is to have people to provide these serves to you maybe the world would be a smidge happier.

Strength in Numbers

Since when did it become ok to not be a nosey neighbor?  I feel like people don’t even know what their neighbors look like anymore.

I am completely ok with my neighbors paying attention to what car I drive and noticing I have a regular schedule. It would make me feel safe. How about we go further and introduce ourselves? I believe this would only develop a sense of community and respect for each other. It’s easier to ignore someone you don’t know than someone you do. Also what if something happened wouldn’t it be nice to know that people would realize something was out of the ordinary. We are so over stimulated with everything else in our lives we don’t take time to notice the little things. Like the fact that my roommate didn’t know our neighbor was pregnant when I told them they had the baby. 9 months went by and they saw the lady and didn’t notice she was getting pretty fat?! Hello planet earth is calling!! I don’t think I’m being nosey I thought I was being a good neighbor by noticing, am I right?

(This blog was written because I came home to find 3 cop cars outside our house, one of the neighbors got in a car accident, and my roommate didn’t even NOTICE….flashing lights sounds of an accident… glad no one was crying for help….jeesh!)