You know that feeling you have after a really good, really fun date? Yeah. Good times. I guess I should update about it, mainly because typing is faster than writing and I want to remember it.
I left work on time, about 5:30. I headed home, because my family had made dinner specially so I could eat it too.. (They made chicken rice alfredo! It was goood..) So I got down to Sam's apartment at about 7:00. I talked to his roommate Andy for a minute, then Sam and I left and headed out for our "fishing" adventure.
Our first stop was D.I. to look for fishing hats and other necessary fishing stuffs. We spent like an hour trying on all kinds of hideous hats, and eventually found these two hats that were actually pretty decent. They kind of match in style, one is green and one is red. After the hat issue was tackled, we found this little stuffed killer whale. Then we found a jump rope for our "fishing rope" haha.. And poor whale, he got noose-ed! Sam made a little noose with the jump rope, to "catch" the whale. AND we found a net! haha It's this little fake plastic tennis racket, and the string isn't really tight together, so it was the net. And, of course, we had the bait... Gummy worms! In addition to getting said fish paraphernalia, we took some pictures with my phone and got some posters for his room.
After that, we headed out to actually GET the fish. He wanted a betta fish, in a vase with a peace lily. (Yay for automatic feeding!) So first we went to Petco to pick out the perfect fish. It took a while to find the perfect one, and the race came down to three potentials.. One dark blue one with red tinting, one very red (and very feisty) one, and a really cool looking multi-colored crowntail betta. The dark blue one was kind of lazy and apathetic... In other words, it was boring. The crowntail was a little concerning, as it swam in really odd patterns.. sometimes sideways.. haha Plus, the red one really was the coolest one, from the beginning. He was all feisty and in-your-face. Muahahaha. You gotta have a fish with personality, ya know?
Then we went to Home Depot to search for the plant, and had a really great conversation on the way there... But man, you wouldn't think it'd be so hard to find a peace lily!! We finally found one after about 30-45 minutes, but it was really hard because it didn't have any blossoms on it. It was just leaves, which happens, it's fine.. But there wasn't a name on the pot, so it was a matter of comparing the leaves to pictures of the plant in all the books in the Garden department. hehe
Then, off to Wal-Mart to get the vase and the rocks! Since the fish is red, Sam wanted to get black rocks, and then sift out some white rocks from the small size. So cool! He has the greatest creative ideas, I swear. After we finally had everything we needed, we headed back to my house to put it all together.
Sam played the piano for a few minutes while I made some room on the kitchen counters to do the stuff. (My dad has just installed one of those "under the cabinet cd player/radio" things, and all the contents of that cabinet were all over the counters and such.) He's an amazing piano player. You can tell just by listening to him play that he's really comfortable with it. Some people play the piano like it's a constant performance, always sort of stressing about it. He plays like breathing, just very natural and flowing.
Getting all the soil out of the roots of the plant was a team effort, haha. But that finally got done, and we set about sorting all the whites and blacks out of the little rocks, while listening to Brian Regan on my laptop. My little sister helped us, it was so fun. We put on the Comedy Central Presents video, cuz Sam hadn't seen it, and my dad watched with us too. He was really cool about meeting my family, totally asking my little sister questions and acting really relaxed with my dad there too. It was such a blast!
It took until about 11:15 to get the vase set up with the rocks (and I changed my fish's water too), but then I took him home. He had to sneak the fish into his apartment, all secretively like... I dubbed him 00Sam. (Okay, it sounds cooler out loud. Say it! "Double-O Sam".. almost like double-0 seven.. ANYWAY. So he finally got the fish in his room without getting caught, then came back out to get the posters he got and say goodbye and everything.
And the night ended with a goodbye hug, and then a nice very traffic-free drive home which included a call to Jaimie, since I'd missed her call earlier that night. :)
I guess you could say it was a really typical Provo first date, but I'm beginning to appreciate that idea more and more. For the kind of relationship I want, things need to start out slow and progress naturally without being forced on either end. It feels really good though.
Yeah, things may not go very far, it may not work out in the end. But that's kind of okay. I'm not really scared about getting in to this. This marks a turning point in the type of guys I date. (Namely: I dated guys who are bad for me. Now I'm going to date guys who aren't jerks.)
Plus, I had a blast going fishin', AND I have a cute hat, a jump rope, a little stuffed whale, and memories of a fun adventure with a fantastic guy. Very good times. :)
Cowboys ride into sunsets
The good guy always gets the girl
Cinderella has just fit
The glass slipper that changed her world
We all know the stories
We all know the fairy tales
We all get the glory
Of making it for ourselves From the beginning
We're all looking for a happy ending
Every dream of winning
Every love we've been in
Right from the beginning
We're looking for a happy ending
