Third “Board” Update

If there could have been a more pristine, more perfectly orchestrated first date, I’d love to see it.

She was GRRRRRRREEEAAAAAATTTTT…

She was gorgeous, funny, interesting, polite, sincere, and most importantly-honest.

The date itself was splendid. 

We did dinner and drinks at a local restaurant. The place stayed open late for us, the owner comp-ed our drinks, we both had a great time together, and towards the end of the evening neither one of us wanted the night to end.

Okay, the recap…

The Dream…Domestic Delusions of a Broken Man

It’s nearly one in the morning. I’m wide awake now. I was sleeping. But I was awoken by a recurring dream I’ve been having.

And now I can’t resume sleeping because this dream has my stomach in knots.

It’s the same dream I’ve been having for three months.

Second “Board”

Tonight I will be grabbing another “board”.

This time it will be the girl I mentioned in the previous post. Just to refresh, I have all ready taken this girl out before and we did Salad Works earlier this week. She’s the very hard to read one.

 Well, i’m gonna take another crack at trying to decipher her. Hopefully all goes well.

Not sure what i’m planning for the evening, but i’m definitely feeling dinner. Perhaps, a few drinks afterwards at the bar. We’ll see.

I’ll keep you posted,

E.Ricci

Another interesting week of events…

Hello all,

It’s been quite the week for me. My mom has been ill with what doctor’s have diagnosed as walking pneumonia.

So, as a good boy, I’ve been spending the last few evenings at her house keeping watch and taking care of her and assuming home responsibilities.

Last night I went out to a local Hibachi with some friends from school. It was enjoyable. Then half way through the evening one of my friends starts asking me about my recent breakup.

Mind you, I tried avoiding the topic all together. I know how cumbersome and mood dulling it can be to have someone start talking about their breakup, their ex, or something regarding a failed intimate relationship. So I tried shying from the subject, remaining upbeat and positive about other things.

This same friend that initiated the conversation, also began our joint freefall into all things hopelessly romantic by informing me of his recent relationship disaster, an account that seemed to follow my own script page for page.

As we were force feeding each other the painful details of our respective failures, it became obvious that we were both boring and annoying the rest of our friends.

I remembered quickly, “They came here for a good time with us, not to hear our pity party and exchange of numbingly redundant advice.”

I immediately changed the subject, allowing the night to move in a much more pleasant direction than where it was heading.

…I’ve been thinking about and contacting a few girls that I’ve met in the past couple of weeks.

I did meet up with one of these girls on Tuesday at the gym. We didn’t work out together but we did grab an early dinner at Salad Works.

She’s interesting and attractive. I’ve had her out on a previous movie date and things seemed to have went well. I just can’t seem to get a gauge on her. I’m not sure if she’s interested, or if I’m nothing more to her than a warm meal and relaxing conversation every other Saturday.

She’s a hard read. Perhaps, I’m just out of touch or need a little tuning up on these endeavors. I’m not really sure.

Other than that, I haven’t had much going on in the dating scene this week. Hopefully the weekend will add up to something.

Likely weekend events in the preliminary planning stages include;

A. Another guy’s night out…perhaps, just towards something more of a bar scene and not so much a club. We’ll see. I may be swayed in either direction.

B. A possible “experiment”, i.e. date, with one of the female subjects that I have been in contact with recently.

C. Maybe just some down time. A little “Me on Me” time this weekend. We get so wrapped up in class, work, obligations, and then wanting to spend time meeting and dating and potentially finding love in new places that we fail at giving ourselves a little time to refocus or recenter.

Plus, with my ex and I’s anniversary just passing this past weekend and my birthday looming a week from now, I’m beginning to feel emotionally drained.

We’ll see. I say I’ll take a break now. But, by tomorrow evening or Saturday I will likely be all revved up to go out and do something, anything.

Posting,

E.Ricci

Some Dating Advice Sites

So i’m in class surfing the web for some Dating Experts and online dating advice and here are few things that have caught my initial attention.

Mind you, I’ll keep looking and adding more when I do a little more delving into the subject.

For now, here’s what has caught my eye:

Bella- Misadventures in Atlanta -”Hotlanta’s” very own Carrie Bradshaw. Just some interesting dating advice from a fellow blogger at the Atlanta Journal Constitution. A female’s perspective, this can be helpful, though for us males struggling to completely understand the underpinnings of the complicated opposite sex.

Allstardatingtips.com -  A hip new site that opened this Valentine’s Day. Dedicated to, and I quote, “teaching singles the art of dating.” I’m still wandering my way through this site. I’ll catch you up more on my findings here.

David Wygant -  America’s quintessential poster boy for dating in the 21st Century. Offers a lot of advice on wide array of topics for singles in the dating scene.
That’s about it for now.  I’ll get back to you with more  info when available.

Posting,

E.Ricci