Ahhhhmazing Night!!!!

Here it is 4AM and I'm writing about where I've been from 6PM til 3 AM.  But first… little bit of a backstory.  My friend Lindsay started working at Tsali and decided that she knew the PERFECT guy for me.  Well I have been out of the dating scene for 2 years so figured why the hell not.  It was her cousin Derek, who was also friends with my friend from nursing school Ashley.  They both told me that we'd be great together and yada yada.  Well I add him on Facebook then eventually he messages me and we talk a little, and I mean very little.  I texted him a few times and the last time I texted him was asking when we were going to hang out on June 1st.  Well no more communication was to be had so I figured he wasn't interested and pretty much forgot about it.  Well I was down in the dumps the other night and talking to Josh and he gave me some good advice that I always here but really never took it to heart.   "You'll find someone I promise ... Be patient and keep your mind and heart open."  That was on Wednesday, here it is Friday and I'm at the mall with my nanny and I get a message from Derek.  So I reply and we chit chat.  The conversations goes like this:

Derek:  Really like your new profile picture

Me:  Thanks  I do too. Best picture I've taken of myself in a long time

Derek:  You took it yourself??

Me:  Yeah lol.  Bored laying in bed the other night and couldn't sleep

Derek:  Well I'd never guess you take good pictures

Me:  Thanks.  I love photography

Derek:  And anytime you are bored ask to tell you a story. Got a good one about goblins and ufos

Me:  I will. I get bored a lot not working Hopefully I'll get to start after Christmas

Derek:  You gonna be bored tonight?

Me:  Probably I don't have anything to go* do

Derek:  Wanna get a pizza and watch 3 stooges?

Me:  Sure

Derek:  When's a good time for you:)

Me:  Uh hang on

Derek:  Hanging

Me:  Free after I get back from Asheville. Won't be here too much longer. My grandma is trying on boots

Derek:  Well text me or signal flare when you get back in sylva. And tell your grandma you can't go wrong with doc Martians :)

And that's how he finally takes up my offer to hang out with him 6 (almost 7) months after I originally asked him.  So I get home, I tell mom and dad about this "date", still don't even know if he even meant it to be a date or not.  Then I go meet him at the carwash.  I washed my car, then sat in my car and waited and got more and more nervous as the clock ticked on.  Finally he pulls up and I hop on in (he opened the door for me too, I was impressed!) then head to his house.  I'm still pretty nervous like I generally am hanging out with people for the first time.  So I grab two slices of my favorite pizza (he was nice and bought a large philly cheesesteak pizza from Domino's) and sit on the couch and we watch The Three Stooges.  We talk, laugh, and just have a good time…. Such a good time that next thing I know it's 3AM!  I really didn't want the night to end up mom and dad would have had a cow if I hadn't gone home.  I really just wanted to stay and curl up on the sofa!  But he drove me back to my car, and walked me to my car, and opened the door for me.  Then we made plans to hang out again later today (shocker right?) and we hugged.  Then I got in my car and went to shut my door as he was shutting it and embarrassed the crap out of myself!  But came home and texted him until just now (4:30AM).  I just hope this is going as well as I think it is.  He actually fits my list, clean rep, WORKS, and doesn't do drugs, and a plus is that he lives by himself in his own house!  I hope this works out, cause I really like this guy :)

And to think this was all brought on by a picture I posted of myself on Facebook laying in bed and was taken upside down.  Had I decided not to post it (which I almost did because it was a little provocative) I probably wouldn't be smiling this big and be this happy...