just a shot in the dark that you just might

ok so on sunday morning i woke up and decided i would not cancel my date that night, i needed to push through this effing hump and get over jay because he’s an ASS and it’s summer and i needed to live a little.

and the date was fine and nice, but the guy was not for me, which i told him honestly the next day but now he’s kind of stalking me which is normal in my life. but the point is i got over my dating hump. i came home and gave into joining match.com because i’m sick of seeing the same guys on okcupid and i swear i’ve dated just about everyone with potential in my area. i also had a date on monday hiking mason but that guy killed it when, upon me commenting on how cute these baby toads all over the trail were, said how he has to bring a bucket up there to use them for fishing, and then explained how he’d put the hook through their little tiny legs…ew.

ANYWAYS, i joined match sunday night and within 8 hours i had about 100 messages and they just KEPT COMING. at this point i almost just cancelled my account because it was so overwhelming, but i started looking through people and the guys are so much better than on okcupid.

one of the guys who wrote me in the first day really caught my attention-he was slightly out of the age range i was hoping for (39), but he looked really young for his age and really hot. furthermore, he’s a pilot for american airlines, so that’s pretty sweet. and on top of that, his profile was intelligent, witty, and he’s really picky which i see as an attribute. oh, and he lives in hartford, which is only 20-25 minutes away…so i responded and we pretty much immediately went to text format, texted for a day and then decided to meet last night for dinner.

you guys, best date i have had in sooo long. i was worried that his pics were old because he really doesn’t look his age, but he actually looked exactly like his pics. the conversation flowed nonstop with us talking a million miles a minute and going on tangents to where we could never remember what we were talking about in the first place. we both revealed wayyy too much about ourselves for a first date, but it worked. we didn’t realize we were the only ones in the restaurant until 45 minutes after close when we looked around and were like OMG WE’RE SO SORRY. i drove home unable to wipe the smile off my face, and i don’t remember the last time that happened. i texted him when i got home and it ended up in us deciding to meet up again tonight, as long as he doesn’t get called in to fly. he offered to either have me over to his place for dinner and a movie or to go out again, and i picked his place where i will have to exercise extreme self control in an attempt to not move this too fast.

oh, and i should mention that he has HIS OWN EFFING PLANE. that’s just the icing on the cake.

i’m trying really hard not to get my hopes up for this one because every date that i go on that i actually see potential (probably about 1/50 dates), something goes wrong.  the age difference is also pretty big, and i’ve had issues with that before so we’ll see. but for now, i’m smiling.