Day 108-111 of Singledom

Crazy how fast things happen when your not paying attention. I landed the job I was vying for, pause for applaud, thank you thank you. It is going to make these next couple weeks at my present job the longest ever. I celebrated with The Ex at an Italian restaurant while romantically watching the Hawks game and having to repeat every other sentence because he wasn't listening. Ahhh, brings me back to when we were dating. Then we played a couple rounds of cornhole and of course I didn't win, just like my Hawks. The following day I had off and I did all my paperwork for new job, went for a run and then another friend of mine came over with a bottle of wine to celebrate me finally being able to leave my current job, which I do love just the company is atrocious. Beer pong guy had asked me to go to his softball game, almost didn't go, thought it was too much of a girlfriend thing to do and didn't want him getting the wrong idea but my buddy convinced me it would be fun and since we were going to dinner after we might as well save time by already being there. So I off I go. And guess what? It's totally a girlfriend thing to do. Everyone's wives or girlfriends were there, I was the only "friend". After numerous, How did you meet? and How long have you known each other? we finally got out of there to stop at his place so he could change for dinner. The apartment is gorgeous, huge and he has 3 other roommates, which he hates so he is moving out in the next couple weeks with another friend of his so it's not such a frat house. His room was the normal messy guy room, shoes, belts and underwear everywhere. Pictures of his family all over, kinda cute. Dinner was unbelievable. We went to my favorite BBQ place, Fat Willy's and when we sat down he asked me what kind of wine I liked, got a bottle and then ordered my favorite appetizer, corn fritters and then ribs. Conversation was really good, flowed nicely, he did unnerve me quite often by staring straight into my eyes often and doing the entwined hands thing like he is really taking in what your saying, made me a little nervous but overall was a great time. Afterwards he dropped me off and we made plans for Friday. That date could have only been made more all American with some beer. Not really feeling the butterflies but I am slightly excited to see him again, I have coined the phrase that sums up all my dating into "Lightly Hanging Out". Yup for now I like that.