"I miss you too!"

Okay ladies, so I know you have missed me....and I am sorry for the lag...things have been crazy busy and I've been trying out this new DATING OPTIMISM thing for a bit based on this book I read called "Meeting your Half-Orange". PGPB seems a bit non-dating optimism so I was trying to rock my bad orange self...but tonight I just have to vent.

So good or bad thing, I've let the NYC man back into my life. First off, this was totally by my choice and after rethinking a few things....in particular realizing that my life was insane a few weeks ago and had I even wanted to, I would have had absolutely NO TIME to text/call him. Suddenly, I began to get that maybe I was in fact not dealing with a Cobra, but an actual guy with a LIFE....which sadly, I have not encountered in the wild until now.

We had been texting, calling and emailing a bit and I decided out of pure boredom and sadness over filling out my census (and realizing after PERSON 1, I was pretty much DONZO) to make him an Easter basket. I made a trip to the dollar store and mailed it off on Monday. On Wed morning, I texted him to ask him if he had seen the movie UP! because I wanted to ask him about an Adeventurebook...as soon as he got my text, he called me. This is 8 am. Nearly in tears, he explains that the reason that he hasn't called or anything is because he is going through some stuff personally (which he explained to me, but I won't air out here on my blog) Anyway, it totally made sense and I was suddenly very happy that I HAD been crazy and sent him a box of goodies.

He gets it and we start the text/call ping pong. Basically, we are the two busiest people on the planet and so trying to get us both in the same place at the same time is nearly impossible. So it takes us from last Thursday when we spoke for 10 min after he opened the box, until today (a week later) to finally catch up to each other. We talk for nearly an hour , he tells me the jelly beans were really yummy, and then when we are getting ready to hang up, I say, "I miss you"

He replies-"Why do you have to say things like that?"

(Definitely not the response I was looking for!) So I say, "Okay well then, I don't miss you." And then it just gets awkward. He's tired. I'm tired. And I decide it's not worth ruining the conversation over so somehow I get him to laugh about some other things and then we hang up cordially.

Here's what I think is funny about this. Does this guy really think that I am that dense to think that he has been texting me back and forth and scheduling and rescheduling a phone conversation with a girl nearly 2500 miles away so that he could tell me they were YUMMY JELLY BEANS!!! Buddy, I already know that you miss me too! I realize you are a stupid guy so you can't come out and say it because it might destory the whole I DON'T CARE BUT I REALLY CARE thing you have going on....but really guy....you have a busy enough life full of drama right now. Do you really think for two seconds that I believe that you spent all that time this past week trying to reconnect with me over that?

So at first I hang up the phone REALLY upset because it didn't at all go the way I wanted it to. And I'm sad and being a stupid girl. Telling myself all the stupid girl stuff. And then I wake up...I'm like- "Oh, no guy! You are so not getting away with this! I am calling your bluff."

I send him a text that says (keep in mind first rodeo is an inside joke between us because I have used part of this line before):

"LUCKY FOR YOU THIS IS NOT MY FIRST RODEO. U DIDN'T SPEND A WEEK TRYING TO CATCH UP WITH ME OVER YUMMY JELLY BEANS. I DO MISS YOU. I ENJOY BEING WITH YOU. UR HANDSOME. THE SECOND YOU WANT ME GONE- JUST TEXT "GONE" TO THIS #. OTHERWISE, STOP RAINING ON MY PARADE AND LET ME JUST PRETEND I GOT AN HOUR OF YOUR DAY CUZ YOU THINK I'M SPECIAL."

Should be pretty interesting to see his response in the morning. But seriously guy....back and forth for a week....and you don't miss me. Okay pal.

It's a rough road ladies, but we have to stay strong and smart. Even the good guys to try see what games they can pull. In the end it will be our wit and our persistance I believe that seperates us from the rest.

I think at this point, this guy knows, I mean business and to cut the crap. I'm onto him.

PGPB