Oh, what a night!

So! My date last night! A lot of you have been asking: "Earlene! Who is this mystery man you are going on a date with? Is it bradney?"

Sadly, readers, it was not Bradney. It is Trey*, a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of my mom's. He is visiting town for the weekend, and when his mom said "how would you like to be shown around town by a cute girl your age?" he said "sure!" and the rest is history!

I told Trey to meet me at 8:00 at the Spring. Here is a photograph I snapped of him as he walked up to greet me: ( I think I startled him.)

I have to say, if I were to rate Trey on his first date conversation skills, I don't think he would score very high. He just kept asking a lot of questions, which I know is something guys do to show their interest in you, but it got to be a little redundant.

TREY: So....you're Earlene?

ME:  Uh-huh!                          

 TREY: Wow...

ME: Yep!                        

TREY: Wow...for real?          

ME: ....Uh-huh!                                                         

TREY: Wow....wait...wait....is this--is CRAIG here? Craig's behind this, isn't he? Did he set you up to this? Where is he???

ME: Huh?

TREY: Uhm. Nothing. Wow.

            

Then there was an awkward, long lull in the conversation, so I decided to help him out a little bit with some more interesting conversation starters.

ME: Do you like monkeys?

TREY: *mutters something under his breath and hides behind the drink menu*

So then I snapped a picture of him.

I don't think he really likes having his picture taken, but I got a couple good ones anyway.

My town is pretty well known for it's nightspots. Trey is from Minneapolis, so I definitely wanted to bring him somewhere that would impress the socks off of him. I thought long and hard about where to take him, and finally came up with the perfect place:

Trey spent most of the night ordering drinks. (He ordered a LOT. of drinks. muttered something about needing drinks to get through this. isn't that a sign of alcoholism?)

Since I don't drink alcohol, I ordered the next best thing: Mac N' Cheese!

I told Trey I had to take a picture of us, to document our first date.

I told Trey that if he wanted another drink, I would order another Mac N'Cheese but he told me that wasn't necessary.

That's the last picture I have of Trey, cause after that he (rather roughly, I must say) demanded I put the camera away..........

.....but not before taking some more fun shots of myself!!!!!

I gave Trey my number and he said he'd call. But just between you and me, I'm not gonna be too broken up about it if he doesn't. He is not a great conversationalist, and his penchant for alcohol worried me.

Still, it was nice to get gussied up for a night on the town!!! Sometimes, all you need is a date, even if it's not an AMAZING one, just to remind yourself to keep putting yourself out there and have a good time meeting new and interesting people. So i'd say my date with Trey was a SUCCESS!!! :-) :-) :-)

*"Trey" is not his real name. When I told him about the blog, he was pretty adamant about me not telling anyone his name. Hope he doesn't mind the pictures...hee hee! ;-)