Well...I have a good story for you today! I was out hanging with the girls one night when one of my friends, Nia, asked me about my blog. I was telling her about how I love it and she told me that she has a "situation" that she wanted me to share with my readers and wanted their honest advice...so here it is:
Nia is caught up in a situation, to say the least. She works long days at her company so she and her coworkers spend a lot of time together. So it was no surprise when she started dating her coworker, Aaron, secretly. Their relationship ended, but now she's fallen for a new guy, Mike, who just happens to be another co-worker. Now, it's not like the two (Aaron & Mike) are so far removed from each other that they'll never cross paths. In fact, Aaron and Mike have a casual (we play video games together) relationship.
Nia has yet to inform Mike about her past relationship with Aaron, and doesn't know if she should. She and Aaron are still friends (and Aaron has a hater brother who works in the same dept as Nia and Mike and would gladly spill the relationship beans).
Nia's question is: "What Should She Do?" Personally, I think that she should tell Mike about Aaron. I don't see how it would end better if she doesn't...but that's just my two cents.
Bright Side: At least someone's dating regularly up in this piece! Just kidding, just kidding!
Guess what y'all?!?!? I'm so done with graduate school! Graduation was on Saturday and I am officially free from the bondage of research papers and reading textbooks! Hooray! Okay so I owe you an ending to the Up In the Air post.Here we go... I was instructed to arrive at Ruggles Bakery early. I don't know if I mentioned it, but we were going to try to catch all of this madness on video so that I could show my dating techniques...#technologyFAIL! We didn't quite figure out how we were going to record both video and audio without my date knowing. (yes, this was an undercover mission) We just taped the audio. I had to slide a small recorder into my purse without the bright red recording light showing...I succeeded. Well, Ashlee, Jenn, and another accomplice positioned themselves by the door (and out of site) while I sat across the room, facing them. Since Jenn didn't tell me anything about the guy (other than the fact that he was 6'3), I didn't know anything. I didn't know his name, his age, anything. This was truly a blind date.
Okay so right on time, he walks into the restaurant and I was like he's cool. He wasn't my normal type, but if my normal type was working for me then I wouldn't be set up by friends on a blind date. He sits down and we begin talking. He's nice, he's intelligent, he doesn't say "conversate", and he can carry on a pretty good conversation...we're off to a good start. We get through the usual "getting to know you" questions. When he gets up to order us our red velvet cake (it was sooo good!), Ashlee and Jenn motion for me to meet them in the restroom. When I get inside, I get asked questions about how I feel the date is going. Trying not to be too obvious (and I didn't want to stay in the restroom too long making seem that I was having stomach issues), I left out before them. He came back to the table and we kept talking. I was getting a little tired and was a tad bit ready to leave, but he was still going. We talked for so long that I didn't realized that Ashlee and Jenn had left. When they came back they banged on the window and broke the date up. They sent me away (which I was a tad bit relieve by) and from what I understand, he was not a happy camper.
They debriefed him and found out that he really enjoyed himself. As far as me, I thought that he was a nice guy, I didn't feel any sparks or fireworks.
Bright Side: We went on another date to the movies a couple of weeks after that and it just fizzled out. It might have been because he could sense that I wasn't all into it or it could've been because he felt the same. Honestly, it doesn't really matter to me...I'm just glad that I didn't have to have any awkward conversations later if my feelings never changed.
