It's Very Nice To Meet You...

Well, it's going to be a banner week for meeting women. No, I'm not kidding. I'm serious. Two significant "dates" (of sorts).

It's kinda hard to explain. It all started earlier this week...

I had coffee with "Laura" earlier this week. You'll recall from an earlier post of mine (that I cannot find at the moment, LOL) that I met a nice lady (Laura) at a professional event not too long ago. She chatted me up after the formal part of the meeting ended. We had a little bit of connection during this conversation, so I was hoping that I'd get the chance to follow up. She was very interested in what we were talking about at the meeting where we met.

The very next day, I received a LinkedIn invitation from her. I promptly accepted and then suggested that we have a phone call to continue our discussions the following week. Well, as it turns out, the next week was a bit of disaster, so I never did get to follow up with her. Two weeks went by and then I followed up with her. She was still interested in talking with me, so I suggested that we get together for coffee instead. She agreed and we set up a time to get together.

I had lots of appointments that day, so my day got completely messed up from the time I started working that day. I ended up having to push out our meeting from just after lunch until late in the afternoon. Laura was nice enough to accommodate my turbulent schedule and make it work. Well, as it turns out, I was even later than that because of traffic -- by about 30 minutes. Anyhow, I'm thinking the whole time "I would be so not surprised if she just called me on the cell and said she's going home".

As it turns out, she really did have reason to... get to that in just a minute. So, I finally get there and see her. I'm pretty much awestruck. She's much more beautiful than I remember her when I first saw her. She has beautiful, long blond hair, athletic build and is pretty tall (5' 8" or so, perhaps?). She's wearing this nice dark wool top on and a pair of nice jeans. I am dressed in business clothes, as I had other meetings that day. She greets me and I go in to get myself a drink. She's been there, so she already has her drink in hand. I come back out, sit down and we start talking. A little chit chat, a little business and some background about each of us.

I find out, as we start talking, that she's now losing her voice and doesn't feel all that well. Still, she showed up for the meeting with me and we were both sitting outside as it was getting colder. We went for a good long while talking with each other. As it reached a natural stopping point (she was really starting to lose her voice now), I told her "you need to go home and take care of yourself". We shook hands and parted. I had a really, really nice time with her. We left the door open to have another meeting when she was feeling better and when we had more time. That might happen as early as this coming week. We'll see.

So the bottom line on this is that I think there may be some interest in me on her part. I don't know that for sure, but I'm willing to play and see if there is any there. It could be all professional at this point, but you never know about that until you try -- I certainly intend to try!

Now, I've been communicating with a lady on the online dating site now for at least the past few weeks. We exchange some instant messenger and found enough interest with each other to arrange a meeting. We'll be doing that tomorrow afternoon. She seems like a very nice person. Of course, even I seem like a nice person online. LOL

I am really looking forward to this date tomorrow, as this is not a psuedo-date, like it was with Laura. No, this is an honest-to-goodeness date! Two people trying to determine if they are attracted and interested in each other. This is the real deal and I am pretty excited about it. I'm not that much of a "dater". I wasn't good at it in my earlier years... then again, looking back, I don't think I was good at much of anything! ;-)

As such, this is going to be a real experience for me, regardless of the outcome. My only expectation here is to have a good time and meet someone new. Anything beyond that is pure bonus and not even on my radar.

Yes, I intend to meet a lot of women. It's going to be both challenging and fun. What an adventure!