Date With Mr. New Jersey

Tonight I had a date with Mr. New Jersey. I actually thought he was kinda cute in his picture, in a dorky sort of way because of his glasses...and for once, I was looking forward to meeting someone! We had chatted online twice, both times the conversation good. And when I called him to finalize when we were meeting, my voice even got squeaky and I realized I was nervous. All good signs :)

He came to pick me up at my place, very nice. His beamer wasn't so bad either :) (oh, by the way, i completely forgot to bring shoes for my date - but I improvised with shoes i usually wear with indian clothes! these things only seem to happen to me!) He got out of the car and shook my hand and said nice to meet you. A gentleman (though I'm a total hugger, but this was nice). First thing I noticed was his smile, very nice. He's 2-3 years younger than me, 6 feet tall and pretty slim/thin (yes, that makes me even fatter but we'll just let that go for now). He told me he was thinking minature golf and dinner...but it started to rain as we were driving so we had to scratch the mini golf. We had about a 45 minute drive so we talked a lot in the car. I asked him about his car and how I've been trying to figure out what I want...and he told me how he ordered his car and went to Germany to pick it up - how cool is that! He grew up in India but has been in the U.S. since high school - in fact, we went to the same high school, what a small world! I asked him if he missed India and would he go back...and he said maybe, staying here or moving there both had its pro's and con's - biggest pro of going back is that his family is all there. Hmmm....this is one of the main reasons I don't really talk to guys from India - they always want to go back and honestly, I just can't see myself settling there. But I decided to keep an open mind for the rest of the night, you never know.

Dinner was nice. We decided to sit outside under a tent while it was raining - I've never done that before, it actually created a nice ambiance. Conversation was good the entire time, no awkward moments. I don't know if there were any sparks right off the bat, but I did find him to be good looking and I remember thinking to myself that this would be a guy I could see myself going out with again. Here is a guy who seems like a true decent human being.

After dinner we went to a bar. It was raining out and my magenta umbrella was so tiny that it only covered half of the both of us! This led to frizzy crazy hair, but I guess it wasn't horrific. We talked about our travels and he told me how he went bunjee jumping in Costa Rica and how he's been sky diving and enjoys rafting and skiing. He's on a volleyball league - pretty cool, I like active guys. And then we got into this conversation about which is better - NJ or NY. He kept saying that he didn't think NJ was all that great but felt the need to counter every point I made about how great NY was. So I started calling him Mr. New Jersey as a joke...and thus his name.

On the drive home he asked if I wanted to go out anywhere else. Our date had already lasted 5 hours so I guess that's a good sign that he's interested? Neither of us actually said anything about getting together another time when I got out of the car - I thanked him for dinner and he said it was nice meeting me. We had the awkward hug that people sitting in cars exchange and then he waited until I got in the house before driving away. So I guess we will see!

I wouldn't be 100% honest if I didn't admit that Eagle crossed my mind more than once tonight. I guess its only human - to compare. But I did my best to leave it out of the above. And hopefully the comparisons will decrease with time. And only time will tell if Mr. New Jersey and I have sparks and how I feel about the whole India thing and if this could go somewhere...

In the meantime, I am talking to a few other guys as well - so stay tuned for more dates to hopefully come soon :)