50 Shades of Speed Dating

Hello, hello! Welcome back! First I just wanted to say thanks to those of you who read my last post. Seriously, you are awesome and I love that you took 3 minutes out of your life to read about mine. :) If you loved it and are here reading again, thanks a million! If you hated it... ehh sorry. And no you won't get those 3 minutes back (or these 3 if you are reading again).

So next up, I thought I would add in what I'm reading or have read recently. Might as well start with the obvious- the 50 Shades of Grey series. Everyone is talking about it.  If you read it, you know why and if you haven't, what in the world are you waiting for?  Seriously amazing. My mother of all people told me to read it and I was more than skeptical since I had heard it was basically porn in word form (and frankly I was a tad shocked my mother of all people read it and liked it). And parts of it totally are. While reading, I was blushing and thinking to myself "You put what, where?!?!?". Totally worth the $30 though because the story of the innocent, recent college grad who falls for a bad boy billionaire is much deeper than and better than the very descriptive physical aspect of their relationship. I was very glad to have it on my Kindle though because I don't know how I would have felt reading it in public.

In my last post, I promised fun stories about dating. So get ready because this one is about speed dating! While at work about 2 months ago I got a Groupon alert on my phone for speed dating. After talking to a co-worker about going with me and our manager telling us how much fun she had doing it, we were sold! After RSVPing to the first event and being told it was full, we RSVPed to the next event. No response to emails or anything confirming we were supposed to go.  After numerous calls and emails we had to contact the manager of the place where the event was taking place. Less than 2 hours before we were supposed to be there, we got in contact with the SpeedDate guy and were told we were on the list to show up.  This should have been a sign but I completely overlooked it.  So we get our cute clothes on and head to BluMartini. When we get there, the older age group who went before us is taking forever to wrap things up! We decided to order some food and while we were sitting there we noticed a ton of girls coming in and hardly any guys around. When the time finally came for us to go sit down, there were at least 10-15 girls and 3 guys. Yes, 3.  Now maybe if they looked like super awesome guys, I would have been more excited about this. But at this point, I was ready to bail. Since that would be rude, we stayed and talked to these guys. There were no timers like you see in the movies when I really wanted one, more than once. Candidate 1 was a really nice, educated guy from Niger, Africa.  The guy was a genius and I felt less than adequate. Why no, I actually don't have a PhD in genetics. Possible for a guy to be too smart for you? Because I was there. Candidate 2 was a guy named Julio who was an engineer from Columbus. Talking to this guy was about as exciting as talking to a doorknob. Are all engineers just super awkward? If so, they need to be taken out of my dating rotation stat! The 3rd and final candidate was my personal favorite. Aside from being about 3 years older than I would date (he was 35, which I know isn't super old, but a lot of life happens in 10 years), he looked like an Amish man. No offense to the Amish, but I am not at all attracted to a man with that much facial hair. The only half-way good looking Amish guy I have seen was Tim Allen in For Richer For Poorer when he didn't have facial hair. Minus the fact this guy was as awkward as can be, he had no chance. This is what happens when I try the new, hip way to meet people. We were assured after the clearly lopsided turnout we could go again for free. Surprise that the website hasn't been updated for new date nights? I think not.

The best part of my day so far was completely spacing on the fact that my mom bought me the 2nd book in the 50 Shades series after I already bought it. That means I had a $10 Amazon credit.  So today I decided that I had to have the DVD of Something Borrowed (also another great book). Go to the check out and bam! My total due was $0.00. Success! The most annoying part of today (and several other days) is answering the phone at work "Good afternoon, Wagner Reese".  The person on the other end then says "Uh yes, is this Wagner Reese?". No sir, I just knew thats who you were looking for and felt like tricking you. My other favorite is that our phone number begins 569. Auto King's begins 596 and the rest of the numbers are the same. Same scenario. "Is this Auto King?" Did I answer the phone and say "Good afternoon, Auto King"? Nooooo. The simplest things escape people. If everyone had a little common sense, imagine what a great place this would be. :) End rant.