From Russia with Love....

Any anger I had towards NSFH disappeared the second I saw him. God, he's gorgeous. He walked right up to me, kissed me, gave me a big hug, and I have never felt such relief.

We had a couple of drinks and talked, talked, talked. I found out he really is not having a good time with work and is worried that the project he is working on is going to fail. He says it's the worst project he's had and he's never felt this way about any project. He says he's been working crazy hours and might start looking for a new job. I'm starting to notice a trend in the way he talks about things. He might start looking for a new job. He might come to visit for a week. He might adopt a dog. I think he has the overwhelmed at work syndrome – not making excuses, here – just making an observation. I get it sometimes -- I have grand plans to do a lot of stuff, but never get around to it. However, I do know most of the stuff I really want to do, I do.

I had looked up several restaurants for us to check out and we settled on this well-known Russian place. I thought he might like it, seeing as though he used to live in Russia. We definitely had fun. I tried all kinds of Russian food – not bad, but there’s a reason Russians are not known for their culinary skills. He seemed like a kid in a candy store, ordering his favorite dishes, teaching me all about the food. That is what I love about dating interesting people – all the stuff you can learn from their experiences.

We caught a cab back to his hotel and I layed in his arms the whole way back.
I’ll spare everyone the details of what happened back at the hotel, but let’s just say, it will be a challenge to make sure anything in the future measures up. Part of it is the fact that he’s gorgeous. The other part is the fact I’m totally head-over-heels into him. He did tell me he extended his trip to make sure he would see me (still doesn’t answer the why the hell didn’t he tell me he was coming question), talked about where we would go next time, and talked about some plans for this summer.

While the weekend didn’t answer all my questions about him, I think I realized something. Obviously we are far apart and in transitional points in our lives – I don’t know where I’ll be living in seven months – but this is too good to not go for it. However, I realize it’s just not realistic to try for something serious -- at least right now. It sucks because I really just want to see what would happen if we were in the same city for an extended period of time, but that’s not going to happen.

With that said, I went on two other dates this weekend. I am very excited about the one I went on Sunday afternoon with CJ. CJ is older, successful, has his life together, and loves dogs (I notice a pattern here in the guys I’m dating). We went for coffee and wound up deciding to have lunch and talking for three hours. He’s incredibly good-looking, too. We’ve been e-mailing today and are going out again Saturday night. I’m very excited!!!

I got together with RM again Sunday night. He continues to intrigue me and make me laugh, but I’m still stuck on the age thing. I think he wants something pretty serious, too, which is not what I want right now.