The Week in Review
By Saturday night, I was starting to feel the effects of Vegas, but I had a lot more energy than I had anticipated, so I went through with my plans to get together with my friend and the two girls. We all met up at a nearby hotel bar around 10:00PM for a few drinks. My friend's co-worker's sister (who I'll call Giggles, from this point forward, because the first couple times I talked to her, she would nervously giggle after saying something) looked as I remembered her; cute, and well put together.
Overall, the night went quite well and I was able to talk to Giggles for an extended period of time. I could tell that she was a little nervous talking to me, but I found it kind of charming. Meanwhile, her sister was acting a tad off; dancing by herself in the middle of the bar, hanging around for a few minutes and then mysteriously disappearing for lengthy stretches of time, going outside to smoke and then claiming that she didn't smoke.
Last call came rather quickly and soon we found ourselves back on the street. The girls had parked at a friend's house a few miles away, so my friend and I offered them rides back to their car. Giggles rode with me and my friend took care of the sister. We pulled up to the front of the house and the two of us sat in the car, talking, for another 20 minutes or so. Finally, the sister came over and told Giggles that it was time to go home. I was sure to get her number this time and promised that I would be in touch.
On Wednesday, I got together with Carrie for the ol' dating staple, dinner and a movie. We had dinner at a local pizza/brewery themed restaurant and then went to see the film,
Super-Size Me (an excellent film, by the way). Dinner was great, there was nary an awkward moment and I found my time with Carrie to pass very painlessly (so much so, that we almost missed the start of the movie). After the movie, I invited her back to my place for a bit and we ended up talking for hours. Things went well enough that she invited to join her and her friends on her birthday in two weeks. If that's not a tell-tale sign of interest, I don't know what is. We ended the night with a good-bye kiss and tentative plans to see each other the following week.
Thursday, I had set up a lunch date with Giggles. I got to the restaurant, as scheduled, just before noon and awaited her arrival. At around :10 after, there was still no sign of my date and a flurry of concerns started to circle my head;
was I in the right place? We did say, 12:00, right? Is it too much to call if you're going to be late? I hope my boss doesn't notice how long I'm gone, etc. As though she'd heard my thoughts, Giggles called my phone right on cue to let me know she was running a few minutes late. I relaxed a bit and started people watching to kill time.
I wasn't paying too much attention to the people entering and exiting the restaurant, but I happened to glance to my side at one point and saw a very attractive woman walking towards the door.
Damn, I wish I was having lunch with her, I thought to myself as I turned my attention back to the other people in the waiting area. Seconds later, the same woman I saw walking up to the restaurant was suddenly at my side. She then greeted me with a, "Sorry I'm so late."
I was dumbfounded; I couldn't believe this was the same girl I had met before. When I'd met her the two previous times, she had been in fairly casual clothes and wasn’t too done up. This time, she was dressed for work, was wearing makeup and looked very, very good. Our lunch went quite well, albeit a bit short (since I had to get back to work). Our interactions were fairly smooth, however there were a few notable lulls in the conversation.
We got together again last night (Sunday) to hang out and watch a movie at my place. She got there around 7:30 or so and, after some idle chit-chat, I opened up a bottle of wine and we sat down to watch our movie. Throughout the entire film, I couldn't help but notice her body language. She spent most of the time leaning away from me on the armrest, with her legs and/or arms crossed. After the movie finished, we continued to sit and talk on the couch. Unfortunately, her body language didn't really improve. However, at some point, her personality switch suddenly turned to "hi" and she really warmed up, conversationally. She began telling stories of her family and growing up, past jobs, where she'd lived and traveled, and a host of other topics. Once this transition was made, the night began to fly by and suddenly it was one in the morning. I had to get up in a few short hours, so I suggested we call it a night. She too was getting tired and agreed. I walked her out to her car to say goodnight. Sadly, there were no intimate moments to speak of, but we did make plans to get together again on Tuesday.
