See you soon...

Wow, I'm really bad at blogging. For somebody that has so much to say in real life and has an opinion 99% of the time, I'm bad at putting it in cyberspace. In real life I can be harsh, rash and unpredictable but for some reason when blogging I'm too afraid to hurt people's feelings or offend others. For those of you who know me well, you're really confused right now.

Anyways, I took a pretty big break from the blog recently, mostly because I've started dating somebody, she is amazing and for some reason writing blogs about us and our dating realities didn’t seem right or fair, but so many people out there do it. In fact, I read plenty of other blogs that are solely devoted to dating, my favorite is http://datingwithoutpants.blogspot.com (disclaimer: just because I read it doesn't mean I agree with it, but he is HILARIOUS and such a witty writer). Moral of the story is that so many times recently I've wanted to write about something I was curious about or dating questions in general, plus in the month of January I went on a total of 5 blind dates and 1 pseudo-blind date and planned to write about each and every single one of them. Then I met somebody, let's call her UTGirl, so I opted to not write about the other not important, ridiculous dates and rehash awkward but awesome experiences simply because I'm elated with where I ended up.

Basically everything is going great with us, but something happened that really threw me for a loop the other day. Let me preface this by saying that she is a nurse and works nights from 7pm to 7am and we usually don't see each other for the 3 or 4 day window when she's on the clock. So, we were out with a group comprised of both of our friends and we were walking out to the car to say goodbye, everything was normal we kissed and said our goodbyes and as she was walking away I said,

"I'll see you soon…"

I guess this wasn't the right thing to say according to Cosmo, Elle, or Seventeen magazines (didn’t know that they were the written truth on dating, but it turns out they are). Her friends were a gasp and everybody but me saw a major issue with this phrase. I guess in girl-speak "see you soon" really means "I don't want to see you ever again." In the words and infliection of Amy Pohler and Seth Myers "SERIOUSLY?...I mean SERIOUSLY"

Well, I just want to say that soon is defined in the dictionary as:

1) within a short period after this or that time, event, etc.
2) before long; in the near future; at an early date
3) readily or willingly
4) early in a period of time; before the time specified is much advanced

NOT one of those references even alludes to the concept of never. Our goodbye was on a Monday night and I was going to see her on Friday, that to me is soon and I even felt as though I said it as a sad puppy, noting that it wasn't soon enough, obviously I didn’t or I wouldn't have been in the doghouse. I guess you live and learn because if I had just said "I'll see you Friday" this would've never happened and I wouldn't have screwed up.

Lesson learned.

Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned
Another lesson learned
- John Mayer & Alicia Keys