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winterbadger) wrote2007-02-25 03:43 pm
winterbadger) wrote2007-02-25 03:43 pm
a date!
So, I chatted with the lady in question and arranged a date for Tuesday evening. No idea how this will go, especially as I feel terribly clumsy and awkward about what sorts of things to say and when, but she sounded glad I called and happy to make a date, so still positive overall.
I think one of the things that I do worst at in dating is chat. I'm not good at compliments--I get the impression I make too many of them. And I think maybe I sound too eager and hopeful. *sigh* This is all so difficult.
Another thing I suck at is compartmentalizing. I feel as if I should be able to take all the "I met this person and she's really cool and she seems to like me" stuff and store it in a drawer and go do other things. But instead I keep thinking about the person, recalling conversation to glean facts, wondering about her and what she's like, and so on. *more sigh*
In other news, C&M and I went out to the bookstore (for cards) and the hardware store (for a new snow shovel and birdseed). The birds are very happy about the birdseed! The juncos, doves, cardinals, a chickadee or two, and and a nuthatch have been bustling around eating away. Forty pounds of seed should last for a while! :-) It was funny: all the seed is kept on shelves in the outside yard of the store, and when I went back there to look, a huge flock of all sorts of birds rose out of the shelves and flew off.
OK, off for tea and a little telly before doing some chores.
I think one of the things that I do worst at in dating is chat. I'm not good at compliments--I get the impression I make too many of them. And I think maybe I sound too eager and hopeful. *sigh* This is all so difficult.
Another thing I suck at is compartmentalizing. I feel as if I should be able to take all the "I met this person and she's really cool and she seems to like me" stuff and store it in a drawer and go do other things. But instead I keep thinking about the person, recalling conversation to glean facts, wondering about her and what she's like, and so on. *more sigh*
In other news, C&M and I went out to the bookstore (for cards) and the hardware store (for a new snow shovel and birdseed). The birds are very happy about the birdseed! The juncos, doves, cardinals, a chickadee or two, and and a nuthatch have been bustling around eating away. Forty pounds of seed should last for a while! :-) It was funny: all the seed is kept on shelves in the outside yard of the store, and when I went back there to look, a huge flock of all sorts of birds rose out of the shelves and flew off.
OK, off for tea and a little telly before doing some chores.