Dates, Mates and Mistakes....

Week 2 has now also come to an end and it has indeed been busy. So let's get stuck into it! First things first. Alfresco and I had a date on Friday... and ... it was... ok. Not great. Here is a snippet. See if you can spot where it went wrong!

Me: ...That would have been good. What subjects did you do?

Al: English, Maths Methods, Biology, Photography and PE.

Me: Cool. Uh. Yeah. SO. um. What I was gonna say. I mean, what I... I mean yeah so yeah *now going red* what are your, well, what did you study at uni? Did you go?

Al: *chuckling* (yes, chuckling!) Outdoor Ed.

Me: *red for the rest of the date*

So clearly, I'm no first date expert...I just can't seem to maintain a proper conversation- remember- this was a representative snippet! And although I understand that I needed to just jump on the horse and get the first date over and done with, I wish I could have been a little more eloquent... Definitely will not hear from Alfresco again. I feel a bit bad he had Date #1 when I'm so out of practice. It was kinda awkward. But he was kind enough about it. God knows, he sat through it for a whole hour! Dates -1, Mistakes +1.

Anyway, I also headed out with an ex, who we shall call Neo (as I was so sure he was "the one") on Saturday night. I was a little apprehensive because of our past and my weakness but I am happy to report that there are no worries anymore. It seems time has healed all; I have no romantic feelings towards him which is excellent. This perhaps in one of those cases, where 1) distance does not make the heart grow fonder, and 2) running away can help! Mates +1, Mistakes -1.

Of course the weekends' nights wouldn't be complete without a text message at 11:30pm to the potential f*buddy; Landscaper. Who at 3am, responded. With of course one thing in mind. At this stage, I couldn't ask for anything more. I mean, look at my last blog post. This guy was great. Unfortunately, I had just gotten home and with the amount of alcohol consumed with Neo, there was no way that I would be in any form to go see him at about 4am. However, due to the nature of the text I have a promising feeling that we can meet up after midnight in the next 2 weeks or so, so all is not lost, in fact I would say: Mistakes -1, Mate(ing) +1.

Strangely, I had an interesting conversation about this with Neo who said, as a man, he would find it difficult to have that relationship with a woman, i.e., a casual f*buddy. This made me think of the stereotypes I have about these situations. I thought that women were less keen, and every man would want to do these casual relationships! Is it the other way around? More investigation needs to be done here.

In my humble, 26 year opinion, as long as you can keep it superficial, and not get connected (remind me to discuss the 2 time rule). This might be a problem for Landscaper and me, as I reckon he's great already (uh-oh). Ah yeah. And the awesome sex doesn't really help me in emotionally distancing from him.