It's a New Day

Well, well, if it isn't a bright and glorious day today! I woke up, got ready for work, checked my Blackberry before leaving the house (as usual) and there was a new message from cutie dog guy ... woo hoo! I think I like him! I said to myself before leaving the house that I was going to wait until I got to the office before I checked the message. Did I wait? Oh hell no. At the first stop light I logged into the dating site from my phone.

As I might have mentioned before - I've done some traveling with my job. Cutie replied with "I think we'd have some great stories to share as I also traveled all over the world with my job." YAY - something in common! Then he gave me his email address. Yahoo! Once I got to work this morning I was sort of nervous. I didn't know what to email him with. I finally hit him with "I'd love to hear all of your travel stories." Then I asked who the cutie dog was with him. I was excited when he wrote back mostly because I'm a dork, but I think he's cute and I love that he lives about five minutes away. He responded that it was his sister's dog and thought it would be a good prop. I told him he got extra points for that. When he responded, his name came through so immediately me being the private investigator that I am looked him up on Facebook. Good news - his profile picture is the same as the dating site. That's a very positive sign. Me being the very good stalker that my friends know and love also looked him up in the appraisal district records ... he owns a house. I assumed from the subdivision he mentioned that he did, but now I have an address. Should I pass by and get a look? lol Just kidding - I think I can wait until we meet up. Oh yeah - he also said he would love to tell me his stories so we should get together because it was too much stuff to write. I gave him the first available day I was available next week. Now we wait!

Meanwhile, analyst guy sent me an instant message this morning and asked how my morning was going so far. I already had sort of a plan on what to say to him about canceling, jokingly of course. He didn't bring it up at first. Later in the conversation he asked if I would be available this evening after my exercise class. I told him as long as he didn't mind me not at my best and as long as he was okay with me being sweaty and/or stinky then sure, why not? It's not the best first impression, but what the heck? If he wants to see me tonight, that's all he gets. I can't dress to the nine's for him if it's last minute.

Later he called me on the phone. I should mention that I like a guy that knows how to use it for phone calls. Some of the people I've "talked" to or sort of gone out with were mostly text users, so it's definitely a nice change. He called and told me a little bit about work and then said he felt bad for canceling yesterday. Apparently his boss changed some stuff around on him and he had to prepare for a 7 a.m. meeting this morning. Gotta love when that happens! He sounded sincere and said he felt bad and wasn't sure how I felt about it, but he'd still like to see me. I told him I was pretty upset and spent the whole night crying. He said "but ... you're okay now, right?" lol If all goes well and he gets out of his call on time we're going to meet up tonight. I really should start carrying a change of emergency clothes in my car ...

On the site front, I had four new messages. I had another guy from a different state. He was cute though so I responded and asked what he was doing in my neck of the woods. He said I was too cute not to say hello to. lol Yeah, ok. We've been messaging back and forth. If I'm ever in his part of the country, maybe I'll stop by and say hello. Who knows? The others included two more guys with children and a weird-looking one. I know there are stats on how many people have initiated contact with me. I'll try to get a number for you soon.

If I end up on that date, I'll be back tonight.