Back in the Saddle Again

I am a seriously tired little meerkat today. (Meerkat is my beloved's nickname for me.) I'm not sure why it's exhausted me so much but this weekend really took it out of me. Strange part is that all I really did was spend most of my time at work. Almost 24 hours in the course of 48. The weekends at my job are not overly exerting, they're just mind numbing. Mind numbing by way of trying to pass the hours. There are very good reasons why someone has to be here but I swear to you, it's like a form of solitary confinement. Nearly. Except it's not in a dungeon-like atmosphere exactly.

I guess I'm back into the dating world as well. In the other non-sleeping time on Saturday, I went to a diner with a new guy. I haven't given him a name yet but one may be coming. He's got thirteen tattoos, we meet eye to eye on most things that we have covered and he understands, without me explaining why I'm not ready to go to his house for the second date to watch a movie. It doesn't hurt that he keeps calling me beautiful. Doesn't hurt one bit.

Our next date: Tuesday, we're going for a walk around a local river. Yup, no need for expensive dinners here (poor guy's had some rough going in the work department - shitty economy), just time to talk and get to know each other. For the moment, that's all I'm after.

There could be some potential drama here... by way of a friend who used to know him well but I'm going to just let it be. One diner date and lots of texts doesn't exactly constitute a full blown relationship so why should I worry? One day at a time. Though I am still willing to admit, the idea of being fully relationship immersed does scare me a bit. But, when I'm ready, when it's right, it won't scare me too terribly much. Yes, I have to keep reminding myself.