How We Met: We work(ed) indirectly together at the theatre I cocktail/bartend/sit around, hang out, and do nothing at. While I pretty much do nothing, he handles all the lighting and other technical stuff within the theatre. Basically, without him, the show doesn’t run. I honestly can’t even remember how long we’ve known each other at this point…definitely more than a year. Anyways, if I remember this all correctly, he overheard me talking about my blog to someone that we work with. He then offered to take me on a date for my blog. So yes, he knows this baby exists (unlike the majority of the men I’ve gone on dates with). We had been talking about it for several months, but things just kept coming up for both of us so we never got the chance to go on our date. Until now.
-Rating:
*Physical Aesthetics: 7
*Appearance: 8
*Personality: 10
*Manners: 10
*Intelligence: 10
*Confidence: 8
*Overall Rating: 10
The Date: So as I stated previously, this date was a long time coming. And as one can tell by the high ratings, this date was fucking awesome. 🙂 Not that I had any doubts. Anyways, I told him to surprise me as far as what we were going to do for the night. All my dates so far have been pretty unoriginal, usually ending up at a restaurant/bar and having a couple of drinks. Being the Gemini that I am, I’m all about spontaneity and variety. So when he told me to bring a jacket, I was already excited – it most definitely sounded like something way different from the rest of my dates. The sweetheart that he is, he drove all the way to my house (which is about 11-12 miles away from where we were going) to come pick me up. And he opened my door getting in the car. Seriously? What a gentleman.
Because I am curious and I didn’t want to wait for the surprise, I asked him where we were going the minute we got in the car. It turned out he was taking me to the one place I have been wanting to go for the past 2 years but haven’t had the chance to (and no one has offered to take me…though I guess I could have gone by myself…): the Denver Botanic Gardens. I know this doesn’t seem exciting to anyone else except me, but I was so happy!! The weird thing was, I don’t recall ever telling him I wanted to go here, so it’s like he read my mind. Haha. Anyways, we get there, and it’s just BEAUTIFUL!! Since it’s (supposed to be) winter, instead of flowers and green trees, there were beautiful lights everywhere for what they call Blossoms of Light. Honestly, it was just magical. I felt like a little kid staring at all the pretty lights. On top of that, some sweet older gentleman handed me what looked like 3D glasses as we walked in, and it made all the lights look like snowflakes!! Seriously, just super enchanting. While we were walking around looking at the beautiful view, “Sage” and I talked about virtually everything, from work to family life, to what we want to do next in our lives. I feel like most of my dates have been very surface level conversations, if you will, so it was definitely refreshing to go on a date with someone who actually had something of pertinence to talk about. I liked how learned he was in a lot of different things, and maybe that’s just something that comes with age (I’m pretty sure he’s more than 5 years older than me, though not 100% positive), but it was just lovely.
After the Botanic Gardens, he took me to dinner at an Indian restaurant nearby. On our way down to the Botanic Gardens, we had discussed possibilities in what to eat that night. All the places he suggested sounded so delicious and were different than what my average date would usually take me to. We got to the restaurant and we got to sit at a table where we sit without shoes on pillows (not too sure what that is called). It was just lovely. Again, we started talking about everything and anything, but I think this is when we more so focused on relationships. We talked about people we had previously hooked up with, old relationships, and just interactions with the opposite sex in general. In talking to him about this, I made the realization that maybe a lot of the things that I am doing and the way I come off to men is not exactly what I’m wanting (i.e. I may seem like I’m not serious about finding someone or wanting to find someone, but deep down I really do). It most definitely made me think about the things I say to men, and how I convey my real feelings towards them (if I even do that, let’s be honest, I am chicken shit when it comes to really liking men). When our bill came, although I offered to pay, he wouldn’t let me. 🙂 He said it was a date and that he would take care of it all. Ladies, this is what a true gentleman looks like!!! Afterwards, he took me back home and we said goodnight.
Honestly, as one can attest by everything written above, this was one of the best dates I have been on since writing this blog. Not sure if it’s because I knew him before or if because he knew about my blog (which is why I don’t usually go on dates with people who know about the blog…I feel that it might change how they behave on the date), but I have this feeling that he’s just a sincerely good guy who knows how to treat a woman correctly. It doesn’t get better than that. 🙂
*Positives: A TRUE GENTLEMAN, good conversation, had a lot of intelligent things to say, took me to really awesome places, very kind and sincere, has so much wisdom (hence the nickname I gave him), I could talk to him about anything without feeling judged, made sure I was having a good time the entire time, he’s mature
*Negatives: We’re not in the same scene (I can be a bit of a party girl and he’s completely out of that scene), there were times I felt that awkward moments of silence, but that quickly changed
Second Date?: Duh. Haha. I’m not sure if it will be before the end of this blog, but I’m sure we’ll figure something out!
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