One month in…and I still want to keep him!

Yes, you read that right, it’s been one month of dating Scott, and so far, I still think he’s adorable and I really, really want to keep this one!

It’s been a busy month! Let’s see, I’ve seen his band perform (he was great up on stage!) I’ve met a bunch of his friends who were all nice to me, and he’s met many of my very good friends, and they all like him and think that we’re “adorable” together (yes, they are using my word because I truly cannot stop saying it!) Scott and I see each other at least twice a week, and text daily. He even suggested that we become Facebook friends. I was a little worried about this, because Facebook kind of burned me in my last relationship. But Scott is nothing like my ex, in the sense that he’s not manipulative, so I agreed to it. It’s actually not bad so far. I must have learned some lessons because I’m not obsessive like I was with my ex. So, so far, it’s all good.

But don’t get me wrong – Scott’s not perfect. But then again, neither am I. For example: He is very budget-conscious… and I’m the opposite. But this I think will end up being a very good thing for me. I’m too much of a spend-thrift (A career working in fashion equals too many clothes in my closet and not enough dollars in my bank account!) and I need to work on saving money. So it’s inspiring to hear that he’s saving money in order to buy an apartment. That really makes me want to get my act together.

So we’ll see how things go as time goes on, but yeah, I still really want to keep him!

Matchmaker, matchmaker…

I subscribe to Daily Candy, and this week’s video was called “Matchmaker, Matchmaker” and it was about Daily Candy’s new feature called “Daily Man Candy” – in which every subscriber would get a video in their inbox daily, featuring a cute, single guy who was totally date-able. Turns out it was a big April Fool’s joke, but so many of my friends forwarded that email to me… hmmmm…what does that say about me? Ha ha!

Anyway, before I realized that it was for April Fool’s, I was thinking: “What a horrible idea! What a way to make a guy into a total player!” Especially in NYC, where there there is a definite imbalance in the ratio of single women to single men. This article from the New York Post a few weeks ago describes how women are leaving the city to find dates…I actually thought about doing that myself!

If things don’t work out with Scott – I just may end up doing that this summer… a dating road trip!

Tiki time!

A second great date! Sigh. I am pretty happy. Though yesterday my face was a little red and chapped from all the kissing Tuesday night… There was a definite need for some concealer. I felt like I was back in college!

Anyway, Tuesday was a rainy, chilly and blustery day in New York City. (Definitely not good hair weather.) I met Scott on a corner in the East Village – yes, I had a frightful flashback to the nightmare street meeting with the Anti-Clooney from a few weeks ago, but that disappeared when I spotted my date. He’s adorable. Really… Sadly, his umbrella had turned upside-down and broken on the way to meet me, so he was a little wet when I met up with him. But we shared my umbrella and walked up the street to this sushi place he liked.

It was a lovely little spot, and they had a happy hour special on sake cocktails. So we ordered two and some sushi, and then I asked him about how he’s been. (Guys like it when you ask about them – and I was genuinely curious…) And he replied, “I’ve been good, lots of work, but enough about me, more importantly how have you been?” Slick! And then we talked about music and work and other stuff and he invited me to his gig next Friday night, and then we were done and decided to go and get cocktails somewhere else.

The second stop was this little bar on 14th Street that I thought I had never been to before, that specialized in tiki drinks. You know, fruity, ultra sweet alcoholic beverages…

Photo by the queen of subtle via Flickr.com

Scott apparently has a weakness for these. They’re fun and decorative and the place had a positive vibe to it, and the DJ played some of my favorite 80′s alternative tunes: Depeche Mode, The Cure, INXS – it was like a high school flashback (not that I was in high school in the 80s – I just listened to that stuff.) Halfway through the date, I realized that I had had my 26th birthday at that bar, but it used to be called something else back then. So that was a kind of funny flashback.

We sampled a few of their specials and shared two drinks (they were enormous) and watched the people in the booth next to us order this “volcano”-type drink that four people could share. Anyway, after he would get us another drink at the bar, Scott would come back and sit closer and closer to me in the booth.

Finally, we had a little flirtatious moment and I couldn’t wait anymore so I kissed him! I’ve never been that bold before! I just had to do it! And it felt good! He is a really good kisser. So we made out a little at the bar and sang along to some fun songs the DJ played (Siouxsie and the Banshees! The Cult!) and then we left the bar and came back to Brooklyn (to my place) and made out a lot more. That was unexpected, but I don’t regret it. He stayed over, we slept, maybe, one hour, and he left early in the morning because he had to be at work by 7am.

He’s already texted me again. He is really, really sweet. And like I told my friend yesterday – one of the things I like about him is the way he looks at me. Like I’m too good to be true! I so needed this!