Hey everyone. Its Wednesday. Hooray for hump day.

So I had a date tonight with a boy we will call "Tom." This was date number 2 for us. I had a decent time on date #1, but was not as lucky with this one. We had agreed to meet for dinner. "Tom" lives in Rhode Island but works in Neecdham. He had requested we go to dinner at 5 (who eats that early other than old folks wanting the early bird special?) but I told him I had an appointment at 5 and could call him when I was done. (In my defense, I did have an important appointment to get my eyebrows waxed..)So I called him around 530 and told him I could be there in about 15 minutes. When I got there, he kept me waiting for probably about 10 minutes, but I overlooked that since I had delayed it in the first place. We went to a Japanese restaurant where they cook your food on the table in front of you. Great idea for a date. Really fun environment. Conversation was all right, nothing overly exciting, but nothing to cry about. Hint #1 that this was going downhill- they gave us those wetnaps to wash our hands at the beginning and he just looked at it like he was all confused. (In his defense, it was rolled up, not in the original packaging..) Ok. So i can get over that. So our conversation was all right and he mentioned that he could have left work at 230 today and headed home. I assured him that he could have called me and we could have picked another night so he didnt have to hang around. When I said "We could have found another night to hang out." His response: "I think that a lie. You are so busy I dont think you could have." Ouch. I might be busy, but if I enjoy your company I will find time to hang out with you. But then he continued with "Besides. We made these plans a week ago. I really wanted to hang out." Mixed messages much? Then when he paid the bill (yes, he picked it up without incident) he gave it to the waitress and said "Can I just get $10 back?" So she returned it with his change. Then he spent a good 5 minutes freaking out that the waitress would think he was a schmuck because he left the check sleeve empty. He turned to me and said, "I hope she realizes that the tip was included in that." I would like to think that waitress is smart enough to figure out if he asked for $10 back, whatever amount above what he left was the tip. Call it a hunch. Also, he kept talking about money throughout the date. And how things were uber expensive (not the food, but things we had been talking about) I am not one to discriminate on income. Period. I have lots of respect for what people do and those who have and those who dont. But it was said in such a way that made me uncomfortable. Not a good sign on a 2nd date. Ok.. so all in all.. not a date from hell, but nothing to excite me. As much as a complain about these little things, I could in theory overlook them. Afterall, no one is perfect. But...call me crazy...if I'm spending time with someone, especially on a date, I want excitement. We dont have to DO anything exciting. But I want to be excited in someway... conversation etc.

Thus we have Tip #8:
Keep our interest. What sets you apart from everyone else we have been out with? You dont have to be THE most interesting person we've ever been out with, but convince us that our time was well spent.

Thats all for today.

Xoxoxo.
-Miranda