Horrible, No Good, VERY Bad!

Oh girls.. Let me just tell you about my terrible date with Boy from the Bar. I should have known it was going to be less than stellar but I had NO idea of the terrible turns it was going to take. Let me preface by saying that I have never done this before.. We dont have a lot of bars in my small Virginian town so my history with meeting guys has been through a friend or something of that sort, and no one goes on traditional dates in college.. at least not at mine. So this was pretty much a first for me. I sat at the bar, started chatting with him last weekend and he says "Give me your number, I WANT TO TAKE YOU OUT." Hold on to that little tidbit for a moment.

He wanted to go to a night club. Strike 1. I dont have any desire to submerse myself in a huge crowd of sweaty gyrating people so I quickly dismiss this. There's a sushi place that I went to last summer that Ive really been wanting to go back to so I suggest that. I mention that there is other food besides sushi, but he asks IF HE CAN GET A CHEESEBURGER when we sit down. Obviously if it is a sushi buffet, there will be other JAPANESE food, not food you can go snag quickly from McDonalds. This was Strike 3 because if you remember, the Facebook poke was Strike 2.

Brace yourselves for what happened next. In a joking way he says "So youre paying for both of us right?" And I was like "Hm.. nope" and he says "Well I would rather not pay for your dinner." Girls... my jaw hit the floor. I begin to get sort of hostile and bitchy watching him eat with his hand in a fist clenched tightly around his fork. He wasnt sure if he had ever had shrimp before.. and didnt know what to do with the tail. I then had to coach him through how to eat a spare rib. I suggest that he tries some sushi and he tells me he already has. No genius, thats SHRIMP. He admits that he mixed up the S words.

He goes back to the buffet and gets some sushi and then UNROLLS IT WITH HIS HANDS, asks me if he is supposed to eat the seaweed and I can feel my skin begin to crawl. I immediately tell him that I dont think I will be able to make the movie as I have to go into work earlier than I expected tomorrow, or some combination of BS. He keeps asking if he did anything or said something and I very calmly say "I would suggest next time maybe not to lead with telling a girl you would rather not pay for your dinner." He then says that this is just to test out the waters, he pays on the second date and assures me that HE IS NOT CHEAP. Oh, that makes sense. Before I could even think the words "AND THE GIRLS COME BACK?!" quickly escaped my mouth. He assures me that they do.

I was just really irritated. And I'm not the kind of girl that expects men to just fall at her feet and do everything for her. I am VERY independent and my mom tells me that it can often ward off guys who are looking for the insecure, clingy type. But I do feel that if you ask a girl out, you pay for her dinner. I don't think I am so wrong in that. Granted I suggested the restaurant, but he wasn't putting in any other feedback and he agreed that we could go there. It was clear that we just didnt have much in common. Different backgrounds and different interests, but live and learn right?

*On a better note, after I left ran away I met my cousin at a bar for a drink to calm myself down. I was heading to the bathroom when this guy comes out of the women's bathroom and warns me that someone spilt a drink all over the floor in there. Not his fault that he was in the wrong restroom, the sign was confusing. We chat for a bit, I tell him about my terrible night and he tells me he's going to take me out AND pay for my dinner. He's calling me today! :-D

Happy Friday Lovelies!!! Sorry for the rant... Am I wrong in my thinking? Please do tell!

One more thing.

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Happy Hump Day!

This post is going to be a mish mash of a lot of things... So I think a list will do the trick.

*It's Wednesday.. so I officially have a week and a half left of my internship. Summer flewwww by. Just a few more weeks until I am reunited with all my friends who were abroad last semester and starting senior year of with a bang.

*Going out with boy from the bar tomorrow. He poked me on Facebook. I don't know if I like that. I'm sure there will be stories to follow.

*Finished up Chasing Harry Winston and I was pretty disappointed in the ending. I know that things cant go on forever but I always feel left hanging when books and movies just sort of stop. I have now started reading Bitter is the New Black by Jen Lancaster and she is so unbelievably funny. I was cracking up last night on the bike at the gym.

*Anyone else a Bachelorette fan? I personally loved Ed. I think he is so cute and funny and I think they will actually work out unlike so many of the previous couples. Did anyone else think that Reid was being sort of rude? He had his opportunity and he left. I think his expectations of her just melting into his arms were unrealistic. But then again.. nothing like a 6 week whirlind romance puts the reality in Reality TV.

*I am well on my way to finishing up the second season of Mad Men before season 3 begins on August 16th. This show is just too good.. if you arent watching you are definitely missing out.

*I am participating in my first swap! I have the pleasure of being paired with a great woman and fellow Virginian. I hope she enjoys the goodies I picked out for her!

*It is raining. No surprise there. I'm making a grilled cheese sandwich because I have zero food here and there's little point to going to the grocery store when Im only here for another week and a half. And then I will settle in for some Mad Men. Don Draper is beyond beautiful.

Cheers to the week being half over. Hope its been a great one!

Weekend Recap!

Had a very productive and enjoyable weekend as my time in Nueva York is winding down. Where did this summer go?! Can't say it was much in the weather department as we have been plagued with terrible weather and as a result my skin is less than bronzed. Friday night went to a birthday get together for a friend of my roommate L. She actually went to my university freshman year and then transferred. Wish I had known her while I was there because she was really fun and easy going. From there L, her friend from high school, and myself headed out to see The Ugly Truth. It was HYSTERICAL! Predictable yes, as I am sure we all could tell from the previews what the plot was but Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler were great together.. not to mention he is absolutely gorgeous. When we got out of the movie we were greeted by a torrential down pour of rain and the unfortunate realization that we parked in the very BACK of the parking lot. Needless to say we were soaked.

Saturday I did some laundry, and headed over t0 the mall to meet one of my sorority sisters who just graduated. It was really great to see her and who doesnt love shopping! I picked out the watch that I will hopefully be getting for my birthday from my parents (28 days!).

**LOVE IT!

I cashed in my gift cards and got my Raybans! I love them.. their look is so classic. Stopped into J.Crack for a bit.. got some tortoise hair clips and cute headband. And from there headed to Anthropologie. I could seriously live in that store. I want my future fantasy apartment to contain everything from that store. I tried on a ton of dresses as I have a wedding reception to attend for a high school friend in a few weeks. I would have bought them all but that would have been extreme. I purchased this one...

It is adorable, but I am not completely sold on wearing it to this event. I havent seen a lot of the people attending since we graduated high school so I want to make sure I look my best. The dress will get plenty of use with back to school sorority events and such.

After the mall I headed into NYC. To contribute to the checking off of my To-Do List, my cousin and I walked around Central Park (check) for a little bit. I saw the cutest couple taking wedding pictures.. and was abruptly reminded of my own singleness. From there, we headed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (check). The artwork was beautiful and the roof top bar wasn't bad either! :) From there we headed to dinner, and eventually to a bar. I ended up talking to this nice guy who wants to take me out next weekend and who am I to deny him that. Crappy timing seeing as how my internship is winding down. If youve been reading previously, you know about the prior boy saga... it was nice to have someone be interested and give compliments, even if nothing comes of it. And maybe I realized the next day via Facebook that he wasnt as cute as I thought while in my wine/sangria/mojito haze. But thats neither here nor there.

My cousin had the genius idea for us to get pizza at 4am and go sit on the quad at Columbia. The campus was gorgeous even in the middle of the night. Suddenly, it started to rain. It really was like a scene out of a movie. We were running around like crazies getting completely soaked but in a strange way it was calming. It was the happiest I had been in weeks without getting strangely emotional. I think for whatever reason in that moment I realized how much this summer had changed me. And it made me very excited to see what the future has in store.

OH MY GOSH!!!

THIS just made my day, or perhaps, my entire life!

FEELING THE 'LOVE'
Flashing her signature smile, Julia Roberts exits her trailer on the New York set of Eat, Pray, Love, her new film based on Elizabeth Gilbert's bestselling memoir. Costarring Javier Bardem (not pictured), the film is slated for a 2011 release.

Am I the last person on Earth to hear about this? I LOVED Eat, Pray, Love. I don't know if I can wait until 2011 for this to come out! Ahh!