Date Report for Uruk

Okay, per Uruk's request I'll tell about my date last weekend. For the purpose of writing about her in my blogs I will call my date "Aye".

I ran across Aye's online dating profile on Match.com about a week ago. It was short but I was very interested after reading it so I sent her a message, she replied, we talked on the phone, and then we agreed to meet this weekend for coffee. I didn't know it when I sent her the initial message but we actually went to high school together for a year, went to the same college, and I even worked at her current place of employment for a while. All that helped give us stuff to talk about that we had in common to get through that usually uncomfortable time when you first meet someone from online. Coffee went well so we went to Applebees and split and appetizers and had a few beers. Aye had told me on the phone that she doesn't like to talk a lot. Although I typically don't like to talk a lot in offline life I made an effort to on the date. At Applebees it was almost like "Story Time with Zee." When I went to Thailand I went with my friend who was from there and I came back with his little brother who went to school here for two years. Aye was friends with his little brother in high school so she was very intersted in Thailand stories. We wanted to go bowling but none of the lanes close had any open bowling so instead we went to a movie. We saw, "Fan Boys" which is about Star Wars fans breaking in to the Lucas Ranch. Neither of us are really into Star Wars but it was funny. During the movie I looked at her hand a few times and thought about holding it but didn't have the balls. One more example that the thought really does not count. The move was done around midnight and we walked to a bar and had a few more drinks and talked till about closing time. Somewhere between the bar and dropping her off at her house I was able to locate my balls so I did kiss Aye. All and all I think we both enjoyed the date because we decided to spend all day Saturday and most of the day Sunday together as well. So after three dates I'm still online bloggin' Uruk. We both have our kids next weekend so we are going to try to get together again on Thursday.

My marriage ended just over three years ago. In that three years I've been in a few relationships that lasted around three months. I've had a lot of first dates where I had absolutely no desire at all to pursue a second date. I've proposed marriage to strangers on the other side of the country via the internet. I made more of a connection with Aye in three days then I have with anyone else in the last three years by far.