Dating Idol Week 9

Dating Idol - Day 57

I spent all day texting back and forth with the girls. How should I wear my hair? What shoes would be best? Does someone have a small black purse I can borrow? All kinds of questions for me to ask. They all had different opinions too. Someone said don’t worry about a purse – run to Victoria’s secret and get a push up and some skimpy underwear. I laughed. Maybe….

Somebody else said not to expect anything, and then I wouldn’t be let down. I did a reality check. I am getting hyped up over this meeting. What if he lied about what he looks like? What if he is a goofball in person? What if he was an asshole that played being nice online? Arrrgh. I don’t want to think about it all, so I went shopping. I bought a push up, but not the skimpy underwear. And another new pair of shoes to go in the closet to make me feel better. Instead of comfort food, I opted for shoes. Safer, too I suppose. At least for the waistline, if not the checkbook.

Dating Idol - Day 58

I’m not sure what to think tonight. John’s visit is two days away now, and I text him all of the time. Why is it that I haven’t yet felt the need to trade phone numbers and actually talk to this man? That struck me as odd today. Then tonight, he kept asking what I wanted to do next week, but needs me to make some reservations. His credit card isn’t working from overseas or something like that. I played it cool, but I don’t want to put $75 opera tickets on my credit card. And that’s $75 EACH. He was the one who wanted to go so bad, he can buy the tickets when he gets here.

He emailed me his itinerary. I noticed he flies first class, so that was impressive. But I guess his company might be paying for that. I don’t remember exactly who he works for, but it is business, of course. It could be anyone! I’m excited, but trying to quell the giddiness. I’m not going to appear moonstruck or like a desperate woman. This will be a fun weekend of dining, theater and maybe a little…well, we’ll leave that up to the imagination.

Dating Idol - Day 59

John will be here tomorrow afternoon. I've taken the rest of the week off to get ready. I’m not sure why, but it sounded good to have a few days off. And it’s not like I’m getting the house ready for a huge invasion of people to come over. It’s one guy. And he might not even come over. It’s just after noon, I have already scrubbed my bathroom and kitchen, vacuumed, mopped and washed the windows. If only I could do this on a regular basis – haha. Tonight he’ll check in and we’ll make final plans. Maybe I’ll even give him my phone number.

Speaking of phone numbers, I’ve only had a couple of hang-ups. Ron must just need a little more time than usual to get over being dumped. Technically, I never dumped him since we were never an item. I guess you need to be more implicit when embarking on a one-night stand so the other person knows completely going in to it. Not like I’ll ever embark on another one, but for future reference.

Katie called to give me a last warning and to try to get me to go out for a quick dinner. I think she wants to give me a bunch more warnings. Which is great, coming from her – who leaves with strange men from the club all the time. I love her concern, but it is a downer at the same time. I passed. I want to chat with John tonight!

Dating Idol - Day 60

I don’t believe this shit. I really don’t freaking believe it. Well, I do. But I don’t. I had those little feelings and I should have paid more attention to them. Remember when I said I shouldn’t be getting all giddy? Grrr. Well, I got online to make some plans and dish out my phone number to John. And guessssss what? He is held up in London because his credit cards aren’t working.

What?

He said his credit cards aren’t working again and it is after hours for him to get a hold of anybody at the company and get it straightened out. Could I give him my credit card numbers so he can get cash for the taxi and to check out of the hotel?

Ha! Do I look like I was born yesterday? Does “Nigerian credit card scam” come to mind? I was pissed. I’m still pissed. I’m mad I fell for it and I’m mad that my friends who tried to caution me were right. Thank God they did though, and I wasn’t over the moon with this guy. I see all of the flowers, the probing questions, and the concern were all a ploy so I would be over the moon and hand over my numbers.

What an ass!!!!

I called him every name in the book until he logged off. I guess I won’t be chatting with him anymore. Now what the hell do I do with the clothes I bought? And what do I do with my vacation day tomorrow?

Dating Idol - Day 61

I am in such a bad mood today. A whole day off and it is wasted. Two whole days because I took tomorrow off for a long weekend. Wasted on that loser’s tricks that I fell for. I can’t believe I was so stupid. I didn’t even sleep in because I was so riled up.

Now it’s lunchtime and I have nothing to do worthwhile, besides sit here and watch TV and feel sorry for myself. I could get dressed up and pretend like I’m having dinner at a five star restaurant tonight. Hell, I can go buy some fake crab cakes at the store and heat them up, pretend like it’s seafood. And I don’t even know what to tell the girls. They will be all sympathetic and I will feel like the class dunce. I don’t know if I can handle it. Maybe I’ll just not answer my phone until Monday night or until I think of a better plan.

I am giving up on men for a long time. I swear. A real man fast this time. I’ll let you know what I do with the rest of my wasted vacation later...right now I need ice cream!!

Dating Idol - Day 62

I ran out and got the ice cream to soothe my battered ego. And when I got back, I had another wonderful message on my machine. I doubt it was John, as he never had my number. So, that leaves Ron or some other creep I have met along the way. It wasn’t just a hang up, there was some funny breathing. Then some more breathing and a throat clear. This time I didn’t delete it, but I saved it. If this is Ron, the jerk is starting to annoy me in a big way. It might be time to go to the police. And this time I will listen to my friends before I make a bad decision and wait too long.

Before I could wallow too much, Beth called to give me some last minute lingerie advice. Ha. I told her about my woes. So much for waiting until Monday. I told her to feel free and spread the word, but I didn’t want to talk to anybody about “it” until Monday. Well, it took five minutes and I got three text messages. Claire wanted me to go to dinner, Katie did too. They even picked my favorite Mexican place. Bitches. I caved. Nothing like a good dish session with the girls.

Dating Idol - Day 63

I got home late last night and crashed in bed. I didn’t feel too miserable, even though I had burritos instead of lobster bisque. Oh well. I fell asleep quicker than I thought. Probably because I got all of the venting off my chest and just hung out with the girls. So, now I have another day to waste with vacation so I logged on to see who was online.

And I almost crapped my pants. John sent me an offline message wanting me to call him when I got the message. He listed a phone number. I was half tempted to call it and see what bogus person was attached to it. Then thought better. If I called, I would have to block my number from him seeing it and being able to return the call. However, he could probably do *69 and get right back to me anyway. Nah. Maybe I’ll do it from a payphone for shits and giggles later. But not from my real phones.

Then I saw Greg online. I asked about his mother and she is back home. He asked me how I was and I debated. Did I tell him the truth or did I lie and say good? I’m not sure what came over me, but I told him the truth. For his part, he didn’t laugh at me. Or so I think. He had sympathy. He even let me rant about evil men. We talked for a bit longer and he asked if I wanted to grab a beer later and watch the hockey game. I hate hockey. And I kinda hate men right now. But I agreed. I may live to regret it later, but a beer sounded good. I’ll fill you in how it goes later.

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