I'm Back! (T-Minus 374 Days)

Well it’s been awhile. To say the very least.

It has been an exciting month since I last wrote and a lot has happened, some of which I am still trying to process and some of which I still haven’t figured out how to approach processing. I am going to do my best to re-enact it in chronological order by blog without giving away the current status of things.

And so, we flash back to Feb. 9 (T-Minus 401 Days), the day after my last blog and the night that will go down as the first date with Mr. NDNS’s friend … who now will be known as Match-Point.  M-P for short. Mostly because my dear friend ES thought it needed to be play off match.com and the sports girl in me liked the parallel to winning with game – set – match.

Now, if I remember correctly, this date had been pushed back from each of the previous two nights after M-P came down with a winter bug that left him sniffling, sneezing and otherwise in a state to make a horrible first impression. If I were a betting woman, I would have put my money on a Texas-sized hangover, but I rolled with it, texted him a photo of chicken noodle soup and told him to get his act together by Wednesday.

Which he did.

We met at a great little bar in a neighborhood halfway between where we both live and had a few beers, swapping stories about all the people we both know, places we both frequent and the times we previously should have met. It actually turns out we did meet once this past summer when I was out with NDNS.

Bygones.

Leaving the bar that night, I wasn’t sure how to gauge the date. I remember hugging goodbye and thinking he smelled good though, and that I wanted to smell him again. I think I was probably a little drunk, but I said yes when he asked if he could call me the next day and again when asked if I would be interested in going out again.