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eHA_Admin_Lori is offline eHA_Admin_Lori — Advice Official Moderator Post #1  June 22,2010, 9:40am
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I'm a day late from being on vacy last week and playing catch-up all day yesterday.

How was everyone's weekend?

Anyone have any dates to report?

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My weekend was OK. It was my birthday weekend, which was nice. I got to spend my actual birthday with my Mom for the first time in a LONG time - she was out visiting from the east coast for a week. We had a GREAT week - went and saw my Dad (they are good friends since their amicable divorce 25 years ago), went to the Grand Canyon (Mom had never been...it was a PERFECT day!), went to the awesome Wild Animal Park in San Diego, and finally squeezed in some pampering and celebrity / Hollywood type stuff.

It was a great but tiring week and the plan was to de-stress over the weekend hanging out at my best friend's place, swimming in the pool, etc. but a HUGE kid's party overtook the pool area, so...

Plus, my 98 year old Grandma had to be put in a home this past weekend, so...that was sad and stressful. It was the right decision though.

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Anyway enough about me -- how about you? Tell us about your weekend!
 
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Had a date Friday night. Not very exciting but I am desperate.
 
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Happy Belated Birthday Lori!

I spend the weekend visiting my parents, also picked up the girlfriend Saturday night and she spent Sunday with my family until I drove her back Sunday afternoon and we had dinner with her parents for Father's day. It was a very enjoyable weekend.

Not sure what this weekend will bring, I need to fix the A/C in my car and debating if I want to take it someplace or do it myself.
 
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Friday night I had the kids and we had a nice quiet night. Saturday night I had a date with J. We had dinner at a very yummy restaurant and had a great time just being together. Sunday morning we went to have breakfast at a cool spot. They have "hippy church." They have gospel bands play and you eat breakfast tacos and can grab a drink. We ran into one of Js friends while we were there. Their group joined us and his friend was great fun. As always we pushed being together until the last minute and I was almost late to pick up my kids.

J will be out of town for two weeks. I am going to miss him.
 
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I had one good date but declined to take things further after a text blitz over the weekend. One promising match that I was kinda digging poofed after giving me his number. Hopefully I will have a first meet lunch this week with another match. We'll see.

Othewise, it was a quiet weekend. I did go to one musuem and the park and catch up on chores. It's warm here and I am going to get to the beach on Saturday with my daughter and am looking forward to that.
 
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I now officially have a boyfriend. Who brought me flowers. And thinks I'm beautiful. And who apparently talks about me since his friends all want to meet me.

Suffice it to say, it was a good weekend.
 
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chemgal wrote :
I now officially have a boyfriend. Who brought me flowers. And thinks I'm beautiful. And who apparently talks about me since his friends all want to meet me.

Suffice it to say, it was a good weekend.
YAY! For you. It is always nice to know they talk about us (in a good way). I went to pick up the girlfriend from work one night and one of her co-workers said "You must be the boyfriend, she talks about you all the time"
 
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Happy belated birthday, Lori! It must have been wonderful to spend it with your mom.

I had no dates on the weekend, but I did come home to find a lovely bouquet of daisies waiting for me on Friday evening. Daisies are my favourite flower. They are sitting on my dresser at this very moment and they look lovely - they're such happy flowers. I fully admit to getting swoony when I unwrapped them. I still get swoony when I look at them. lol
 
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eHA_Admin_Lori wrote :
I'm a day late from being on vacy last week and playing catch-up all day yesterday.

How was everyone's weekend?

Anyone have any dates to report?

~~~

My weekend was OK. It was my birthday weekend, which was nice. I got to spend my actual birthday with my Mom for the first time in a LONG time - she was out visiting from the east coast for a week. We had a GREAT week - went and saw my Dad (they are good friends since their amicable divorce 25 years ago), went to the Grand Canyon (Mom had never been...it was a PERFECT day!), went to the awesome Wild Animal Park in San Diego, and finally squeezed in some pampering and celebrity / Hollywood type stuff.

It was a great but tiring week and the plan was to de-stress over the weekend hanging out at my best friend's place, swimming in the pool, etc. but a HUGE kid's party overtook the pool area, so...

Plus, my 98 year old Grandma had to be put in a home this past weekend, so...that was sad and stressful. It was the right decision though.

~~~

Anyway enough about me -- how about you? Tell us about your weekend!
Happy belated birthday to you, Lori !!! Sounds like the happenings were both happy and a bit sad.

Bittersweet - in sum...

Made me feel like saying to you, what would have been my signature line, if, we would have been allowed to have one here:

"The dogs bark. The caravan moves along..."

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I am still reeling from my weekend. I think it was astounding, and somehow worth the telling. So it may be a bit longer than usual.

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It was an online first date, at a Starbucks on Saturday, after a very brief back and forth messaging, we decided to meet up.

I'd never felt such a great connection before on a first date; evidently she did also. we talked straight for two hours, even forgot to get our coffee. Some "rules" were broken, like discussing the ex'es, but we bothgot a brief bio of one another's lives, to date, and it turned out also, that our values and morals seemed to match just perfectly, and we were both at identical points in our lives.

And, the obvious unspoken subtext said we were looking for the same thing too....

So I *did* follow the advice from here that says when it's THAT nice, to sign and seal plans for another date, which was for the 28th of June, to visit the SF area, as I have Court down there on a civil matter, that day and we could hang out a bit when it's over. (It's about 150 miles away).

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But there was a phone message from her when I got back. She wanted to hang out some more -- (On this past)Sunday. She resides about 50 miles away in Sacramento, and does not have a car. (I have 3 at the moment).

It was a quiet weekend, and I had nothing else to do, so I said to myself- why not?

She is an avid gardener, (as my mother was) so I asked her if she would enjoy the historic Luther Burbank (hybrid) gardens in Santa Rosa near the coast. After a Peruvian lunch (she loved it, which was nice 'cause I like ethnic foods a LOT, and had been married to a Peruvian before) we went to the Gardens and had a wonderful time, she was enthralled with it, and a font of information.

We were becoming comfortable in one another's presence and held hands easily. Not a pushover (either of us) though, and when she said "I eat garlic 3x a day" I joked, "What would it be like to kiss YOU?", she said, "You will have to find out later..."

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Then we walked across the street to the municipal park and strolled around. The weather at 5:00pm was so nice - 80* - it was really romantic and relaxing.

Being only 50 miles from San Francisco at this point, and it the day before the summer solstice, (2nd longest day of the year for sunlight) we went to San Francisco, ( a lot to see, but a lot of light to see it) but first, shopped at a country Farmer's Market on the way, at the edge of the Napa Valley wine country in Sonoma.

I grew up as a boy near that area so it was pleasant relaxing driving for me ( plus I was in the NEW car too, his name is "Zbigniew Mercury").


In San Francisco, though, it was nice, because we toured around the hidden secret monuments and stairways that most tourists don't know. She was such an eager and curious and vivacious companion; it was super to take her around SF.... a city I know well, and love very much, as it is my hometown and I lived there most of my life till a few years ago.

We went to a downscale neighborhood and had dinner at a place - Cancun Tacqueria - voted "SF's best burrito" year after year, and afterwards, we got in the car and scooted over to "Little Italy" (North Beach), and had dessert and coffee at an expensive upscale restaurant, with tuxedoed waiters, to make up for the poor prior ambiance an hour before.

It was so nice .... and she was so gracious, but mentioned she felt underdressed for it but I told her she looked fine, to me...

I said I was sorry that I am not too bold about asking her out....and she said: "I like you JUST as you are".

wow.


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By the time I took her back, it was past midnight.

We had been together over 12 hours!!! But all of it was enjoyable. We felt so comfortable in one another's presence, all that time. So nice, so easy. I dropped her off at the end, with her Farmer's market bags in each hand. We shared a strong hug and a nice kiss....

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Seemed like it was almost too nice to be true, so I let yesterday go by without a call, to let things settle a bit, and see how I felt.

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We talked today, and it's all real good.

Tomorrow she has the day off, and I will buy a day old loaf of bread and we are going down to Folsom Lake - to feed the ducks and geese, and have a nice picnic there, and hold hands and stroll around the Lake and talk and get to know each other some more.


I think this one may really lead to something. We are well matched in most ways, and there is that elusive chemistry going on, with the requisite respect and courtesy we both seem to need.
Last edited by 6dle899; June 22,2010 at 3:10pm. Reason: tonite the oldest Mercedes ships to FL from here, Thurs = dentist in SF. "The dogs bark, the caravan moves along."
 
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I can finally say that I had a date this weekend. Just see the thread entitled "Sunday Night Date Results". It was an awesome time and I am trying to set up date number two!
 
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