oh my goodness.... had a fantastic date last night -- see, here's the skinny, ex-co-workers at my old company said "we have the perfect guy for you" and set us up - coincidentally, he sits at my old desk. and we've been emailing each other for the past week and a half... we'd sent photos and stuff and i was pleased
anyway - fast forward to the date....
awesome awesome time...
he's really cute!! AND - get this... his hair... brown with just enough red in it to kinda have the sun make it look red hee hee hee
first off - he drives up in the miata (excellent, by the way - not the Phooka, but still nice)
he said "close your eyes, i come bearing gifts"
okay... so i close 'em... then all of a sudden i have this heavy item in my arms....
he says "open your eyes - I've brought you shrubbery!"
he did! he brought me effing shrubbery!!!! awesome! I shall name it Roger.
okay he ALSO handed me a beautiful bouquet of flowers --- awesome, but the shrubbery, how brilliant is that!!???
we went to the Union Landing and had a few beverages and yapped - very cool, very at ease... then we meandered forth to the River House...
had a few more beverages - we were seated inside and had sushi... we took forever to order from the regular menu because we were yapping so much... just a grand time.
the poor waitress kept coming back and asking if we were ready ---- we couldn't decide, the filet mignon looked good - except, well, i'd had filet mignon thursday and friday nights - so, eh, we got silly and ordered more sushi and ordered grilled cheese off the kid's menu (heh, i know. we were goofy)
ShrubBoy™ at one point was saying something and moved his arms and the empty Bass bottle went flying off the table. The folks in the restaurant began to clap - I, not wanting him to be embarrassed, and also because i enjoy attention and applause, stood up and took the bullet for him by raising my arms and doing a little bow thang... yes, i looked like an ass, but whatever, no one there knew who i was.
so a few moments later i went into the ladies' room.
and i was washing my hands and a girl said "excuse me, is your name erin?"
(so much for folks not knowing me :)
yep - and i was looking at her trying to figure out if i knew her - nothing was popping into my head
then she said "do you write gigglechick.com? love that site, read it every day"
so Mel, thank you! (mind if i call you mel? i had a couple of beverages and cannot remember if you are melanie or melinda. i apologize) but it was really nice to meet you!
okay back at the table we're finishing our grilled cheeses and this time it was my turn to knock something whilst yapping... except this time it was the little basket on the table filled with a candle and sugars
i just gave a little wave to the crowd this time as they cheered.
so, from the river house, we trekked down to the inlet.... and went for a walk on the beach
okay, perhaps a little kissyfacing was had on said beach.... good stuff... good smackeroos.
we had a 12 hour date. neither of us wear a watch - we thought it was only 11pm and it was actually 2:15am... and ShrubBoy™ has an hour and a half drive home... so -- i drove back to my house (we'd left his miata and taken my mini last night) and well, we may have locked lips a little more. then he was on his way...
hee hee!!! good stuff, first date i've been on since last august.
really incredible kickarse date.
gotta run. gotta go plant Roger now.
