The Adventure of Dating

For the last week I've embarked upon the adventure of dating.  Anyone who has dated will remember quite fondly what an adventure it is!

While I have an OKCupid profile, and a The Big and The Beautiful profile, neither have really netted any results.

  

Occasionally I'll post on craigslist as an ego boost.  What I tend to do is post an ad for 3-5 hours, rake in a bunch of compliments and creepy responses, and then delete the ad.  The creepiest response was:

Hi there, I'm a 51 year old hairy romantic Italian male who would love to welcome you to cleveland with a nice nude massage and bubble bath, Interested ?

Which, honestly, isn't too bad considering it was craigslist.  In case you are wondering I did not respond to this email, nor do I ever plan on responding.

Anyway, one guy responded with a lot of pictures and an honest/sincere email.  Since he was so different from the pack, I decided to email him back.  We emailed each other for a bit and then started texting.  After a day of back and forth texting we decided to meet up at Ruby Tuesdays for dinner.

Not only was the guy punctual, but he was early!  +1 points for him.  He insisted on opening doors (+1) and paying for dinner (+1).  He was funny (+1), polite (+1), charming (+1), and asked lots of in depth questions about me (+1).  After 2 hours of talking and flirting the waitress at Ruby Tuesdays hinted that it was time for us to leave.

At the end of the date, he was nothing if not a perfect gentleman.  He hugged me and said he would really like to see me again.  I, being the cool cat that I am, nodded energetically and said "yes!  YES!  Me too!  A lot!!"

Within an hour of the end of our date we were texting back and forth again.  In the week since our first date, we have had 3 more dates.  All of them have left me smiling, giddy as a school girl!  Again, I felt like he was honest and sincere about everything (nothing like this:)

It has been so long (1 year) since I've been on a date, let alone a great date (3-5 years) that I had forgotten how much fun it is!  Meeting and experiencing new people truly is one of the most fun adventures out there!

Am I sure this is going to last forever? No, I'm not sure of anything, except I am sure that I will enjoy the adventure, wherever it may take me.