Exciting emails.

Due to the holidays the blog is on a bit of a time delay.  Well...the holidays & my laziness of 2011, but I digress.  Anyhoo, I've been dating The Aficionado since just before Thanksgiving.  So roughly 2 months.  However 3 weeks of those 2 months have been spent with both of us on various vacations and business trips, so we have gone long periods with out seeing each other.  In fact, I haven't seen him since December 16th.  (Don't worry, I'm not obsessively counting the days and marking them on a calendar in my blood.  The last time I saw him was the day my office closed for Christmas vacation, hence my remembering the date.)

This has led to a minor insecurity attack and what do I do when I feel insecure?  Amp up my action on the dating site.  True to form, I did just this and I have 2 exciting new prospects:

The dude abides.

Matthew McConnaughey : Ah, ladies, I see that that nickname has piqued your interest.  This guy seems to be a "dude" in every sense of the word, but not in an annoying underachieving way.  38, hot, lives at the beach, likes to ski and drink beer.  Fortunately he is also an executive at a company so he is a little bit more adult than your average dude.  His emails are funny, he responds quickly, and he's already suggested we get together for drinks, hopefully this week.  He's also tall.  Very tall.

The Partner : I want to call him The Lawyer 2.0 but I think that will get confusing.  I winked at him, he winked back, I emailed him, he emailed back.  After 2 emails he told me to call him.  Uh uh my friend.  I'm fine with making the first move but I do not want to be doing ALL the work.  But you can see the parallels between him and The Lawyer: lazy and selfish.  But also really hot.  DAMMIT.  Gets me every time!

Naturally, since I was thinking about these 2 this morning and looking forward to emailing with them today, The Aficionado called.  Never fails.  Left a somewhat cryptic message apologizing for being distant lately and he'll tell me about it when we talk.  Then he kind of passively invited me down to his place this afternoon.  When I returned his call I got his VM, left a message, but didn't say anything about coming down there because again, MAN UP.  If you want to see me, say hey, I'll be watching football later, why don't you come down? Don't give me this "I'll be around all afternoon watching football and not doing a whole lot."  I've picked up on this kind of "suggestion" from him before and said outright, "So, was that an invite?" but again, not doing it regularly.  Takes two to tango.  And do the nasty.

So I enter another week with a little more beef in my man cabinet.  Hopefully will have a date with Mr. McConnaughey and maybe find out what the heck happened to the consistency of  The Aficionado.  A girl can dream....

Love is not something you can put chains on and throw into a lake.  That's called Houdini,
LL