On the 4th Date of Christmas...

12/14/2011 Mr. April 29/W/M Lawyer

So after my wild 3rd date of Christmas... I needed some time to recover. I had been kind of slacking and not sure who my 4th date of Christmas was going to be. I recieved a facebook message a day earlier from a childhood friend of mine. I got drunk with her when I was 16 for one of the first times at her sister's house party and she played on my softball team one year with me and we would always get in trouble together. I'm actually almost certain that's the main reason why they split us up after that. I haven't seen this girl for years, but we found each other on Facebook. Gotta love social networking for that! :)

Anyway, she decided to reccomend Mr. April to me. Said he was her friend and that he didn't know that she was contacting me and that I should just trust her and ask him out. Why not? So I did. I messaged him on Facebook and he was totally down for the cause. Not wanting a super wild date, we scheduled a lunch time date.

He too came and picked me up. First impression was that he was a decent looking guy. Had a nice smile, and seemed to have a very warm personality. He asked if lunch was good, and I said sure! So we got on the road.

Well the road to lunch was probably the worst part of the date. He didn't seem to know where he was going, so we missed turns, circled around a lot, and had to pull in and reverse directions a lot. I am the worst with motion sickness... and I was super nauceaous before we even got to lunch.

Getting to talk to him though, I found out that he had just had hip surgery a few weeks ago. He was a brave sole just for walking around let alone taking me out. I started to tell him about my recent shoulder surgery, and it turns out he too had that done. Dang gina! You've had a lot of surgeries... poor guy, is all I could think.

But I couldn't help but feel super proud of him for just finishing law school and passing the bar! That is a huge accomplishment. Something I would never want to put myself through, but it sounds like he really enjoyed learning about it. What I liked about him, was that he didn't have that arrogantness about him that is often sterotyped with people and law school, or even Dr.'s have it. He was super down to earth, and didn't want to rub in his intelligence. He preferred keeping his law studies to his business side, and being a normal guy the rest of the time. Cool guy.

We ended up going to a portland trendy place for lunch. I had never been. The place was packed, so we sat at the bar. I really liked our waitress. She was super chill and both her and I had gone to Costa Rica, but different parts and were sharing our adventures. And Mr. April was actually set to take off for 2 weeks coming up! We were trying to give him some pointers on where to go and what to see! I just couldn't help but be excited for him.

Turns out the lunch place we went to serves mostly breakfast stuff so we ordered french toast, and some potatos with eggs over easy over the top of them and we shared. The french toast was heavenly! It was like a fluffy dessert. Yum! I let him have most of it, though because he seemed to really enjoy it, and I like my potato carbs!

During our date he got up to "use the restroom"... It had been a while and I honestly wasn't sure if he was coming back! I kind of chuckled to myself and thought how funny that might be if he did ditch out. But he eventually found his way back with an excuse of a line and it being far away, but I'm going to guess he had some business to take care of in there, and I'm not talking lawyer business. ;)

It was kind of a short but sweet date. We finished up lunch, I offered to help on the tab, and he hesitantly offered to pick it up. And I questioned his sincerity, and said I don't mind helping. But then he gave in, and you could tell he genuinely wanted to get it, but was maybe skeptical about the whole blogging thing.

After lunch, we kind of drove around some more, in circles a little bit. He was trying to kill time and maybe think of something else we could do. He actually wanted to try bowling, but I thought that was crazy of him considering he had just had hip surgery! So he decided to take me back, and you could see the defeat in his eyes. I reassured him though, that we didn't need to have an extravagent date for it to be a good one, and that I really enjoyed his company.

We got back towards my place and he kept going after he passed my house... he acted confident in where he was going, but I should have known better... "Where are we going, Mr. April?"... and then we had to turn around. Again. ha ha.

I felt inclined to say "Let's hang out again." He seemed like he would be a really good friend.