Its been a while since I’ve blogged and I have good reason… Christmas and New Year has been a complete mess of alcohol and catching up with friends and my brain has not found any way to write it all down and also, I’m fearful that my secret identity may be under threat. You see I was all set for a very quiet New Years Eve, I wanted to cook a great meal and have a lovely bottle of wine and generally ignore the anti-climactic nature of the evening with as little expense as possible. All in all a great plan from me, and its not that I’m a complete bah humbug person but I quite liked the idea of seeing in the New Year solo, a small nod to my new life. But after chatting to a friend, she was not in agreement with my amazing plan and forced (to be fair – my arm didn’t need too much twisting) me to go out with her and her husband and another couple who also brought along a friend. He was “the 5th wheel” and I was more like a “6th wheel” – a nice little even number.
Before my arrival, they were having a natter about who was coming out and my lovely friend was telling them all about me and at the end of my intro she added “oh, and she has a blog all about her single life”. This has been my downfall.
The night carried on and was turning into a great evening, 12 o’clock came and went with much merriment and very odd 1920′s music. Lots of talking and flirting and a very strange fight between my friends husband and a guy trying to chat me up, very odd and i’m still unsure of why it all happened but it was eventful. Whilst forcing more alcohol down my throat, I was talking more and more to the 5th wheel and getting on very well with him and then he blurts out “So I hear you have a blog?”. Horror and panic flashed in my eyes. I am going to kill my friend. I no longer have friends. The 5th wheel tells me that he also blogs and was quite interested in finding out the name of mine and I have never been more thankful that I was not plastered at that moment because I’m fairly sure that I would have told him and that would have been the end of my short lived blogging career. (Obviously this would have been a disaster for not just me but you guys as well!!)
A lot of nattering later and the 5th wheel is saying something about it being late and he was going but that he wanted to see me again, so I gave him my number and I seem to recall some kind of banter about me going back to his and how he’d cook me breakfast (this explains the random text message that just read “hash browns?”) I was seriously considering it until I realised there was a chance I was more excited about the food than him so I thought I would give the self respect thing a go for a while. See how that pans out for me. And I wanted to see if I liked this guy sober before I get drunk and jump into bed with him.
To my surprise he text me first thing on New Years Day, “I’m glad you didn’t come back with me last night, I dread to think what the blog would’ve said…”, another surprise was that a big smile came across my face, maybe I do like him. or maybe I like the fact that he likes me and its a ‘pseudo like’ but anyway I’m just going to wait and see if he calls. I quite like the idea of having a proper date and getting all dressed up and being nervous and whilst there’s been quite a few texts back and forth and he totally stalked me on facebook, (found me without my surname), there’s been no whiff of a phone call or an email or anything even relating to going out. I’ve initiated contact twice and the first time lead to lots of innuendo filled text messages until 2am. I am not texting again. Definitely not. No.
I’m still a little paranoid that he really wants to see my blog. Show you mine, you show me yours kinda thing but I said he could either see my blog and never see me again or he could see me again… (I may have insinuated naked, but it was late and there was innuendos flying around every which way)… he chose me, phew. and I know that it’s highly unlikely that he could just stumble across this blog but it’s really put me off writing anything for the last week. Just the thought that somebody wants to find it makes me hold back a bit and for an oversharer like me this is very distressing! Maybe by next week I’ll have gotten over it. Stay tuned folks.
Love me. XOXO
P.S.: Apologies for the lack of humour or wit or structure to this post. I’m fairly sure the brain cells that control my sense of humour have been destroyed by alcohol.
Tags: I may kill my friend, i think i'm turning into an alco, not witty or funny today, NYE, the 5th wheel
January 7, 2010 at 9:58 am |
The first rule of blog club: don’t tell anyone about blog club!
Keep writing stuff, just try and not be specific with details which people could use to find the blog. Google is not your friend when you don’t want to be found.
Top Facebook stalking by 5th wheel (and for a minute, I nearly thought it was me – I’ve undertaken Facebook stalking lately too – have a look at my last couple of posts)!
January 9, 2010 at 5:57 pm |
I will take your advice sir. no talking about blog club. I loved 5th wheels stalking, granted I had found him the same way but I would never have contacted him – it always seems more desperate from a girl. Love your stalking too – are you sure we’re not writing about each other?
January 9, 2010 at 10:32 am |
Ooooh potential!
Interested to hear how he pans out. Never mix blog world and real world. Not doing too well at that so far, but otherwise it just becomes a different version of the truth. Some friends know I keep one, one or two have been in a position to find out what it’s called but I think they respect the fact that if I wanted them to read it, I’d tell them.
Happy to have you back though! x
January 9, 2010 at 5:51 pm |
Yeah he may have potential and definitely the longer he waits to call me, the more interested I become. Although, only 5 mins after posting this blog he was in facebook chat and started a conversation. It was all very flirty then he said something very cheeky and followed it with “put that in your blog” so I typed “You’ve already had a mention in my blog you don’t get another mention until you take me out”. That was blatantly his cue to ask me out but nothing.. I don’t get it. He said he wanted to see me again. Grrrr.
January 9, 2010 at 8:41 pm |
Ahh, not all fellows are good at asking people out. He is obviously interested; why not engineer a way for you two to meet again? All sounds rather fun and exciting – best wishes!
January 10, 2010 at 2:39 pm |
Easier said than done, it was a friend of a friend of a friend. So it would be hard to arrange an ‘accidental’ meeting. I’m fighting it but i may just have to bite the bullet and ask him out. Can’t stand all this waiting malarkey.
January 10, 2010 at 3:30 pm |
Ok, but if he’s one of these slightly intimidated guys (ones who answer blatent hints with silence), is being pushy the right tactic? I’m about a ptrillion miles ahead of you in the pushy stakes so I can’t talk, but if the onus remains on you to initiate stuff then that’s pas bon. I’d give him an open opportunity, slightly short of asking him out directly, and go from there. But yes, waiting? PAH TO WAITING.
January 10, 2010 at 3:46 pm |
Oh dithering you are right – pushy is probably not the best bet here. I really just want someone else to have the initiative and I really thought this guy would have it, he’s thirty something and confident enough to ask for my number but obviously he was under the influence. Asking him out is only going to intimidate and emasculate him a bit.
You say give him an ‘open opportunity’… but what is that? I said to him that I wished I had gone home with him on NYE (On his invitation – i don’t just randomly say that to men) so I could have sampled his cooked breakfast – I don’t know how much more of an opportunity I can give him without asking him out! You see I’m fretting about this one because I think I’d quite like it to be a bit more than a one off. He has great fling potential.
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