DATE #2

I am having no success in getting these video updates onto the blog! I will keep trying. In the meantime let me update you on Date #2

I was really tired on Friday and had a splitting headache. Not really a good start when meeting someone new. I was to meet the guy I had spoken to on the phone. The one I was a bit nervous about because he came across as kinda creepy to me. He is out in Westchester so that is where we were going to meet. Only thing is the rest of the "team" is in the city so I was a little uncomfortable to go alone given this guys comments. That being said, I have another friend in the music business (Lisa) who I know occasionally comes out to Westchester on the weekends to visit her parents.. ok...I'm going to ask her if she is available to hang at the spot Date #2 chose. She totally came through for me....and it was hilarious!. She asked her parents if they could just eat at our chosen spot instead of where they had planned and they said no problem! Lisa gets there before I do...and before the date. She has already explained what is going on to the hostess who was happy to accommodate with tables in close proximity to each other. I'm talking to Lisa at the bar and Date #2 walks in. Hey nice to meet you... this is my friend Lisa. He says..oh is this a set up?? Lisa was like..what are you talking about?? Anyway I'm here with my parents we're sitting over there...there's a great table right there if you guys want it. No. Date #2 wants to sit at the bar. Lisa disappears. Have no idea where she is sitting. So I order a drink..as does he. He said ok.. I'm going to read your palm now. Things must be pretty bleak for me because he didn't have to much to say except which lines were which. OK....moving right along..... Then he wanted to give me a little pop quiz. Ok..why not. He asked me a bunch of questions and then told me what all my answers meant. He said he had read a book about all these things you can do as ice breakers. I don't have a problem with that either. We chatted, and laughed..and had some moments of huge distraction due to our location at the bar.
Date #2 has been doing Match for a while. He is actually a nice guy.. with some admirable qualities..but this is where I need help from The Expert. I am terrible at dating. I go out with people I like from their energy when I meet them. I had no attraction to this guy at all. So what do you do? Just sit there and be polite? Don't you know right away if you like someone? And then..is it best to be direct? I know everyone is nervous..but the whole thing is pretty weird to me. Also..I guess you need to know what you are really looking for. Anyway..
I realized..I'm supposed to meet Lisa in the restroom..for the update. I had no idea where she was but when I got to the ladies room there she was! Apparently Lisa and her parents had moved to a table that was upstairs looking down over at us. Lisa seemed more excited than I was! She had even taken pictures from up above! Yikes. She said her dad was starting to get annoyed because Lisa and her mom were ignoring him and just watching the date. Lisa thought it looked like it was going well. Her mom said...She doesn't look in to him at all!! Mom was right!!!
We did our video in the bathroom...(hopefully I can figure out how to put it up) and then I headed back to the bar. I was trying to hear about him but every time I tried to turn the conversation in that direction he had another pop quiz for me! Next thing you know Lisa came and joined us at the bar! (Her parents had left) I was so relieved. The Date kind of looked at me like ???? Lisa was asking..so how do you guys know each other?? Perfect question Lisa!! That lead to a conversation about how many people do online dating etc. among other things. Then Lisa started showing the Date pictures of Motorcycles on her Droid. I was dying. Not sure if he was in to that or not..but I thought their conversations were going better than mine. Hilarious. If only I had the camera running then!
Finally Date #2 and I decided the date was over. It was awkward. I thanked him..standing about 5 feet away from him. We both knew there was nothing there. Lisa was still at the bar! THANKS Lisa (and parents)