Another Date Another Dollar

  *All names have been changed to keep the identity of my friends and potential love interests private.

Tonight's date's name was Dean! (Well that wasn't really his name but you get the picture lol.)

Me and my friends Ellie, Tara, and Hannah set each other up with boys! We all met up at a Brazilian style pizza place for chats and games. My date, Dean, came through Tara. They used to work together.

I've decided I need to start being nicer about my dates on here because they're all children of God and I'd want people to see the best in me on my dates too so without further ado, here's some great things about Dean.

1. Excellent storyteller -- my favorite two he told me tonight were about an old Russian man he used to do yard work for and how he was playing hide and seek once and fell 25 ft and lived to tell the tale
2. Great sense of humor -- laughs were had
3. Scrappy/humble/willing to learn -- he's currently unemployed but recently found a temporary gig in sales that he's going to try out and when he was telling me about the old Russian man he used to do work for he would frequently learn things on the job like how to build a deck!! This man is willing to try new things and I think that's super cool!!

All that being said, I don't think I need to go on a second date:) Sweet nice fun boy though.

I think the true highlight of my night though was after the date when Ellie, Tara, Hannah and I held a group face time to debrief the date. We talked about not only what we thought of the boys we were paired off with but also what went well on the date overall and what didn't. We were all Experience Design majors at BYU and have been well trained to evaluate and improve experiences (dates included hehe.)

Some things we thought went well included

• food place we chose was novel for everyone
• some of us got 1 on 1 time with our dates because we carpooled to the restaurant and that helped us get to know our dates better than the others who just met their dates at the restaurant
• Hannah would like to go on a second date with her boy:)
• The game we played was a getting to know you game

Some things we thought could be improved

• everyone needs one on one time with their date. We might do a sort of food bracket for our next group date to remedy this problem
• at some points our conversations just felt like one big group one and it was hard to talk to your date one on one (again, the activity we choose for our next date could remedy this)
• we need to find a way to ensure we won't run out of boys to set each other up with (to prevent this from happening we might use the principle of asking for referrals as taught in Chapter 9 of Preach My Gospel)

That was my date for tonight!! Ngl post date me was questioning if this is all really worth it? Am I every really going to find a person that I enjoy spending time with more than I like spending time with myself or my friends?? I'm doubtful, but curious, and willing to keep trying. And in the meantime I'm just grateful for friends that have an ability to make anything fun (including dating) and that instill me with hope. 

Peace 'n' blessin's. Rizzabasil OUT.