Date #1

so now my true dating journal begins.
its 5:30 monday night and i get an urgent message:
"JENNA call me back ASAP"
so naturally my secret agent instincts stepped in and i quickly analyzed the situation and thought the best thing to do would be to call her back!
so what was my mission? double date that night! this was right up my alley of expertise and i began my prep of the "oh i looked really good today and i just threw on some clothes and ran out the door" look! cause everyone knows the best aspect of a secret agent is her disguise!
when i got to my friends house and we were waiting for the boys naturally i stalked him on facebook cause i have to have previous knowledge! but the important thing is not to act like you know anything about them..but you can cleverly say things that you think might spark conversation! so when they got there we decided to play wii! haha and i owned at just dance 2! primarily cause that's the only video game im remotely good at! so then as we continued on to play wii resort and i would loose misserably again my date - we'll call him old person name - i would still have some remaining dignity!

after the wii it was time to settle down and pick something to watch...so naturally the seating arrangment came up?
should i go and sit next to him?
should i tell him to sit next to me?

so what happens?
old person name goes to the bathroom! and then my his friend (my friends boyfriend) tell me to come sit next to where he was previously sitting and we were quietly yelling/whispering at each other when he came back and i reacted by strechting out on the opposite end of the couch.
decision made. it was a first date, i had no obligation to sit next to him, and plus i was tired, and wanted to lay down. so lesson learned. dont give in to what you think is "expected date behavior".

at the end of the night i must have done somthing right cause he asked for my number "so we can hang out without killing each other at wii"

SCORE.

at the end of that night i wasnt really feeling to much from him, and i didnt really have anything to add to my "list", but after texting him i did come upon a realization. its really good to ask people abuot them selves. so many people today just ask "how are you?" out of habbit. but we should ask with the intention of having a response other than "well that's good". One of the most thoughtful thing is just asking about the other person, showing a legitmate interest in who they are, and what made them that way, rather than just what they do or what they look like.

keep the
Harmony