This last Friday night I went out with the girls and participated in one of their belated birthday parties. At this party, the birthday girl had invited a number of her male co-workers, to which I hit it off with one of them and had a interesting conversation throughout the evening (yes, a conversation, I was the DD lol). Prior to leaving, he jumped right in and asked me for my phone number with confidence, saying "I would love to see you again".
I happily gave him my phone number.
Now the first step towards any relationship is the inital meeting. Check. Then subsequent exhange of contact information. Double Check, and correct contact information too. Now to wait until he contacts me. But before that happens, a period of time (apparently) must be established before either that happens.
*Insert final Jepardy! music here*
In talking with the gents and ladies, there is a considerable divide in what the sexes and Google (of all things) thought was correct.
The majority of responses from the gentlemen was that it depened on the girl. If they liked her, they would usually contact her right away, or at the very least within the first few (meaning 2) days of meeting her, and a phone call would be made. If they were unsure, a text would be sent in place of the phone call. A lot of times though, the gentleman has had time to reflect (aka sober up) and determined that he would have nothing in common with the girl and thus, not contact her through any means.
The lion's share of the ladies responses was a hard and fast 3 days. If there has been no contact within that time frame, NEXT!
Google actually recomends waiting anywhere from 3-5 days, to allow for time the first meeting to sink in, and to ensure that the other person (especially if the gentleman is doing the calling) does not feel as if its a booty call.
Now, I fully understand and appreicate that life can happen at any moment, and that might delay the contact. But as there does not appear to be any hard and fast play book for this, waiting it out to your own criteria is the way to go.
As Google is the bearer of all knowledge, coupled with the fact that I am so completely inept at these types of things, this guy, technically has anywhere from tonight, until Wednesday night of this week to call. I just wonder if I have the patience for dating after all!
Monday, January 9, 2012
Sunday, January 8, 2012
2011 in Review
I have been somewhat down in the dumps of late...the latter half of 2011 really threw me for the biggest loop that I have ever been apart of.
So, to help dig myself out of the proverbial hole, I wrote down everything that was positive about my year:
1. My race season was amazing. I not only started 5 half marathons, but I finished them all. Medals are hanging on the wall, and there was a hug at the end of those runs. The Hypo Half, RunWild Half, Red Deer Half, Intact Half and Melissa's Half. I may have broken my toe twice in 2011, but that's still one heck of a race season!
2. Ari Gold is still alive (woot woot!). And because of this, I have reconsidered my stance on lacking the 'mom' gene.
3. I went camping AND hiking on two separate trips. For those that know me, this is kind of a big deal. I generally do not like the outdoors, but in challenging myself, I actually had a lot of fun.
4. I gave dating a solid shot in 2011. I had a number of hilarious miss adventures over the 12 months, but in the end, I did find love. It may have not worked out in the end, but for 5 months, I had it in my hands. Which means, that if I found it once, I can find it again.
5. The Spence Diamonds radio announcer is still alive. Not that I had any real plans on removing his set of genetics from the pool, but I am sure that someone has.
6. I reconnected with a great deal of my friends that I had not seen or talked to in quite some time. Movie dates, wing nights, beers, Jersey Shore, laughs and break in adventures abounded.
7. I started to learn Russian in late November/early December, as I was pretty certain that my mind was turning into mush and was determined to combat it. My tutor is awesome, hot and single...so ladies, let me know if you would like to meet him!
8. One of the best things that happened was that uber cute my basement suite flooded repeatedly, thus turning it into Bhagdad. You may think that this isn't a good thing to have happen, and I agree. But the outcome was that I afforded the opportunity to move in with an amazing lady. One who is kind, loving and just plain fun. She has been simply stellar with Ari Gold, and we both love her to pieces.
Reading all of this has brought my spirits up quite a bit. 2011 at first glance may not have been the perfect year, but what year really is? And the fact that I was able to come up with 8 amazing points on why it was a good year off the top of my head was pretty decent.
My resolution for 2012 will be to come up with 9 points.
So, to help dig myself out of the proverbial hole, I wrote down everything that was positive about my year:
1. My race season was amazing. I not only started 5 half marathons, but I finished them all. Medals are hanging on the wall, and there was a hug at the end of those runs. The Hypo Half, RunWild Half, Red Deer Half, Intact Half and Melissa's Half. I may have broken my toe twice in 2011, but that's still one heck of a race season!
2. Ari Gold is still alive (woot woot!). And because of this, I have reconsidered my stance on lacking the 'mom' gene.
3. I went camping AND hiking on two separate trips. For those that know me, this is kind of a big deal. I generally do not like the outdoors, but in challenging myself, I actually had a lot of fun.
4. I gave dating a solid shot in 2011. I had a number of hilarious miss adventures over the 12 months, but in the end, I did find love. It may have not worked out in the end, but for 5 months, I had it in my hands. Which means, that if I found it once, I can find it again.
5. The Spence Diamonds radio announcer is still alive. Not that I had any real plans on removing his set of genetics from the pool, but I am sure that someone has.
6. I reconnected with a great deal of my friends that I had not seen or talked to in quite some time. Movie dates, wing nights, beers, Jersey Shore, laughs and break in adventures abounded.
7. I started to learn Russian in late November/early December, as I was pretty certain that my mind was turning into mush and was determined to combat it. My tutor is awesome, hot and single...so ladies, let me know if you would like to meet him!
8. One of the best things that happened was that uber cute my basement suite flooded repeatedly, thus turning it into Bhagdad. You may think that this isn't a good thing to have happen, and I agree. But the outcome was that I afforded the opportunity to move in with an amazing lady. One who is kind, loving and just plain fun. She has been simply stellar with Ari Gold, and we both love her to pieces.
Reading all of this has brought my spirits up quite a bit. 2011 at first glance may not have been the perfect year, but what year really is? And the fact that I was able to come up with 8 amazing points on why it was a good year off the top of my head was pretty decent.
My resolution for 2012 will be to come up with 9 points.
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