@Ale If he’s overall a nice guy, I say another date is worth a shot. I’ve had attraction grow as I get to know people. One of the guys I met last fall who I ended up reallllly liking, I wasn’t sure I was attracted to him at first. He wasn’t unattractive, but he wasn’t my normal type. I really had fun with him and maybe somewhere around date four realized that yeah, I DID like him and was attracted to him. Maybe, since you’re not ready a new relationship, you might be ready for a new dog? I’ve only had mine for about a year but can’t imagine my life without him. He’s my buddy and my baby. 🙂

I did a tour in Costa Rica that involved horseback riding (didn’t like, but I think it was just that tour… hot, not romantic, and the horses were really ornery and actually threw the guide off on his butt), zip-lining, which we didn’t do, but I would totally do now that I’ve tried it in the US, and hot volcanic springs / mud bath, which was awesome. I would highly recommend that last activity.

We also tried learning to surf, but I was hopeless. My ex-bf enjoyed it though.

It will be hot and humid when you come, and maybe rainy. Or you could be very lucky and catch the beginning of “summer” here. (We don’t have seasons per se, we have rainy and dry season only).
Yeah I don’t like horseback riding either, it’s usually not like in the movies super romantic and also, Im afraid of horses.
There’s a hotel that does the hot springs/mud bath called Rio Perdido located in Guanacaste, which is close to many beaches so you could stay there and then move to any beach. They also have zip lining there.

@Copa I found out about yet another lie that my ex told me. Someone at work came up to me and told me “so you remember so and so when he told you this and that, he was lying, here’s proof” like out of the blue. I know people do this to “help” but I was really mad and shut that person off. I don’t even miss this dude, I was mad that a coworker would be so careless. I also started thinking about all the lies and had a mini crisis and was also PMSing.
But it’s all good now, I realize I am unbelievably strong for going through a break up at work, handling it well, because I have. I was actually at the hot springs during the weekend :)))

@Ale – Pet guy sounds like fun. I hope you went on another date. Your coworkers are def. clueless. There doesn’t seem to be any good reason to bring that all up. I hope you are feeling better!

So the last week and a half has been hectic. The AG was at an academic/corp. series of meetings on this thing he helped build, then had to head to Canada to a conference, and is now in a middle eastern country for work and to visit family. The man traveled to the east coast for 3 days, came back for a day and half to see me, Canada for 2 days, back here for a day, and then to the middle east for almost a month. I took the day after his Canada trip off, and we got to spend the entire day together. We just hung out, ran errands, I helped him pack, we went to dinner..mundane things you know? But the time with him was awesome. He’s now 10 hours difference in the time zone department, but we’re still managing to catch each other. Before he left I told him that I know he was busy, but what I need is for him to send me a short text at least every other day so I know he’s okay, and occasionally thinking about me. So far we’ve managed to chat at least twice a day.

In between all this I’ve been planning for a major project this weekend at work – the best time to work on IT stuff is when no one else is working after all. Just wrapped that up thankfully; because I intend to sleep more than 4 hours tonight and then take the youngest to a festival a town over tomorrow. Should be fun! The older kids are going to be home later and we’re going to BBQ in the evening.

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

@Copa things sound nice with Bumble Guy. And Neighbor keeps reminding you of the huge bullet you dodged.

I went on another date with Tinder Guy. With Pet Guy, I’ve only seen him once. I had to cancel our second date and we haven’t rescheduled.

Tinder Guy is fine, I like him but he is training for an ultra marathon right now, so he doesn’t have much time, which makes me think that it will end sooner rather than later. We text every day but we don’t schedule dates that often (I’m at fault for that too). Today would be our fourth date and he invited me to his place. This makes me wonder: how long do you wait to invite someone to your place? How long do you a think a person should wait to invite YOU over?
The thing is, and don’t judge me, I don’t know if he wants sex or not, he hasn’t stated that clearly. Could be he’s inviting me over to try and see where it goes. He has been a nice guy so far. However, I am feeling really bad about my looks and appearance lately. Just yesterday I found out that my BF is sky high. Like I’ve never had such a high BF % and I am not ok with my looks right now (thanks summer trip to Europe). And this makes me feek veeery self conscious, so today I don’t feel like getting naked for the first time in front of someone. So initially I said yes to going over to his place, but now I don’t want to, because I don’t want to have even a possibility of sex. And also, I don’t know if that’s what he wants, I coulg go and just hang out. But until today, my thought is don’t go to someone’s place unless you know you want to get physical. But then again, I’m kind of new at dating. My mind is a mess haha.