End of the month Update

Honestly, there isn't too much to update on. I have been quite busy this month with work and other things so I haven't had much time to get out and meet people, let alone blog about it. I apologize for not being diligent about it.

To let you know what I've been doing, outside of work, I went sturgeon fishing on the Columbia a couple weeks ago. We didn't catch anything that we could keep, but I did hook into an 8-footer. Took me about a half hour to reel him near the boat, and then handed off to my dad (who didn't hook or catch anything all day) to land.

I've also been to 4 Blazer games, 3 of them preseason, and 2 of them for free. Last night was the season opener, and it was awesome. I got a new custom jersey, and they finally got the look right!

I've been talking to a few women over the last few weeks, with little or no success. The Singer is going through something similar to my experience with my previous ex, but she can't get over the fact that her ex doesn't want to be with her anymore and refuses to move on, despite the fact that she has several (I'm told anyway) suitors, myself included.

I met a woman online a couple months back that eventually moved to Salt Lake City before we met. She was back up here for a while and we were supposed to meet but scheduling and the cold/flu that keeps going around messed up those plans. We still text, but infrequently.

I recently reconnected with a friend from high school on a social networking site, and it sounds like we have a date set up, just need to pick a day. I don't know what or if I should expect anything out of this other than just having a good time with someone I haven't seen in nearly 8 years, but we always were pretty friendly in school and got along very well.

I am still trying to set up a dinner with the Redhead. She keeps hinting at things but then says "only as friends" to others... makes things confusing! I'm of the opinion that she's not sure what she wants yet, plus she's very busy and sometimes uses that as a crutch to keep from making a decision.

Still haven't heard anything at all from the Park girl... and good riddance. Last time I did she IM'd me and asked if I'd found a FWB yet. I jokingly replied that the position was open and asked if she wanted the job, and she freaked, saying she didn't do that kind of thing. Whatever.

I'll keep you posted on how things go... Maybe this date with my old friend will turn out well.

Update 9/27

So it's been a while since I posted, so I figured I'd update things.

First, the ex. She started freaking out after I didn't reply to her messages and ended up pestering one of my relatives to make sure I was ok. I felt kind of guilty so I messaged her not long after and let her know that yes, I was ok, and left it at that. Conversation with her is sporadic at best, and I'm doing my best to not let things get to me.

I've heard once or twice from the crazy park girl in the last couple weeks. She just got her pc back from the shop and now has started school. She no longer talks dirty anymore, and isn't really saying much of anything so I figure that's good.

There's a couple of girls that I've known for a long time that I'm talking to more frequently now and there could be some chemistry. As names are changed to protect the innocent, I'll call them the Singer and the Redhead. With both of these women, there is a mutual attraction, but there are circumstances that keep anything from happening, although it seems walls are crumbling. Both live a good distance away, however one is farther away than the other. We'll see what happens.

As I mentioned in one of my last posts, I recently joined the dating site Plenty of Fish. I've been attempting to contact potential dates, with only one or two replies, and a couple of unsolicited responses to my ad, although these have turned out to be incompatible for various reasons. The replies back that I've received have seemed promising, at least just to start a dialogue, which I suppose that's how everything gets started anyways, right? I have ran into a few people I know personally on the site, but I shall leave them anonymous, like me.

That's pretty much about it. I've gotten over my fears of contacting perfect strangers, so I'm sending out more feelers, and hoping to hear back more.

Sometimes you just gotta go with your gut feeling

So it's been a week since I first met Park Girl. I first mentioned that I felt slightly uncomfortable the first time we met because of the way things were coming across.

Well, turns out my uncomfortable feeling was right. This chick has been clingy as hell, and trying to trap me into a relationship. She's been incredibly needy, and if I don't answer her promptly she starts messaging the hell out of me or calling repeatedly.

The big straw came as she asked me a question that was a bit personal and I told her I wasn't ready to share that with her. She FLIPPED. She accused me of trying to use her for sex, which I'm not, and for not being open with her. I'm sorry, I just met you, you don't need to know my life story in intimate details.

So apparently because I wouldn't divulge private info, she's done with me. Good riddance.

Sunday wrap-up

Now to finish the Park Girl saga.

I woke up just after noon, and immediately the messages started pouring in. For the most part I ignored them, trying to have a normal day where I'm not being hounded by a woman, which in retrospect for this blog seems foolish considering I'm searching for a woman to hound me for life. But anyways, work time finally rolled around, and I texted her back telling her I was going to work.

It was busy, so I wasn't able to reply much to her, which ended up causing some interesting prompts from her. One period of time where I was away from my phone, she texted me asking if I was checking out her butt when she bent over to crawl thru the playground tube, and if I'd imagined doing her doggy style. Of course, I didn't get a chance to answer since my phone's battery ran out, so for the next 3 hours I had a reprieve from those questions.

For someone who's supposed to be a good church-going girl, she seems to have a rather dirty mind. Not that I mind, but it's almost never-ending, and that's a bit too much for me.

I think I'm gonna give her one more chance to cool it with the naughty talk, but if it doesn't happen, I think I'm going to have to move on.

A very long night

So I went and met Park Girl last night. But let's start from the beginning.

I woke up very late and went to breakfast, my normal Saturday routine. I came home and jumped on the PC, and she started texting me, and eventually figured out I was online. We chatted for a couple hours before I had to get ready for work. She kept pushing for a free pizza. I finally gave in, and told her I'd bring her one after I got off work.

Work was rather dull last night, so I was able to get out of there quickly and meet up with her. She definitely was NOT as advertised. The pictures she'd sent me earlier in the day were all head shots. Usually there's a reason for that; because there is a little more than meets the eye, if you catch my drift. Her photos were all well and good, but at first glance... well, it's more than a play on words to say that she was more than I expected. Don't get me wrong, she's very nice, she's not unattractive, and I am not shallow by any means (I mean, after all who am I to judge?), but it was a surprise. Anyways...

So, knowing I'd brought pizza, we then went to Burgerville and got milkshakes to enjoy with the pizza. Then we went and drove down to the waterfront and walked along the boardwalk until we found an area the sprinklers weren't coating with water, and started to eat and get to know each other. We didn't get very far though because she spent plenty of time complaining about how cold it was where we were. It wasn't that cold, but it was somewhat breezy. She was wearing 2 shirts and jeans, yet was colder than I was in a t-shirt and shorts. Not the greatest first impression. Eventually, we packed everything back up and started walking back to my car, headed across the bridge to have coffee at Denny's.

We got there and were sat pretty quickly. I had coffee, and she changed her mind and got hot cocoa. We started talking some more and she started slowly turning to conversation to sexual topics. I'm not usually one to shy away from a sexual conversation, but I started to feel a little uncomfortable. Talk of using a video game remote as a sex toy. The fact that she did a porn spread in a magazine as a gift for one of her exes that was later used on several websites to promote business. All well and good in my book, but the moment I suggest anything sexual and I'm "dirty minded" or "perverted".

So after a couple hours we decided to leave Denny's and we were gonna go find something to do. It was about 2:30-3 am by this point. On the way to somewhere we could just walk around, she decided it was time for her to go home. So I drove her back to her block and she suggested we walk down by the Farmer's Market. There's a playground there at Esther Short Park, which is the only thing accessible due to the Wine & Jazz Festival going on this weekend. We played on the swings, climbed on the play structure, and she crawled thru a plexiglass tunnel for a dollar. It was originally supposed to be two but I pulled my offer for the 2nd dollar and then she did it anyways, and ended up searching all my pockets for the dollar, not finding it but instead finding a paystub, and took to asking my last name, which I told her was "Smith". She ended up asking the night security guy about it, which led to a long talk with him, and then she pretty much called it a night.

I walked her to the door of her building, and she was going to go inside but surprised me with a last-second hug, which I'd figured I wouldn't be getting. As I drove off she asked me if I wanted to come back and come up, which I politely declined. Then she told me she was naked, and I said maybe (jokingly), but apparently that wasn't good enough.

That's it for now. I'll finish the rest of today's adventure after work tomorrow.

Leave it to Karma...

Leave it to Karma to have me write a post about having trouble meeting people and then hit it off really well with someone...

Last night I was sitting in chat and looking for people to talk to, and came across a woman who lives here in the 'Couve, downtown. We chatted it up for a short bit last night, and then quite a bit today, both via chat and later texting.

She seems very nice, but seems to have a few issues with trust. She's been burned by people in the past. Seems like I maybe met the female version of me, lol. Through our conversations, it's clear she's interested in seeing if things might work out, but she's very reluctant to do anything even remotely affectionate, even cuddling on a couch watching a movie, unless "it's with her boyfriend". She was going to invite me over tonight (if I wasn't working) to listen to the live music from the Wine & Jazz Festival, but then before I could accept coming over AFTER work, she said that she had promised herself the next guy she had to her home would be her boyfriend.

Now, I have a rather good sense of humor, so leave it to me to say "ah, trying to trap me already, huh? lol"... I don't think she understood it as a joke however. Well, at least until I explained it to her, that is. Then everything seemed to go smoothly again.

We'll see how things go with this one... Maybe this could be a short blog lol!