Another Date(?)

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

Whaddup for real this time. The blog is back. Rizz has been resurrected. Let me give you the dish as this blog post is about 3 months overdue.

I have moved back to Florida officially as of 96 days ago. Maybe a month before I moved back I got a DM out of the blue from a friend I'd met previously in Florida (we'll call him Blake) asking what it was like working at Trader Joe's because he was considering moving to California soon and was thinking of it as a future employment option. I went off because I'm very passionate about how good of a workplace Trader Joe's is but our conversation evolved as we caught up on each others lives and blah blah blah. Anyway. I tell Blake that I'm moving back to Florida in June and he says "Oh my gosh we have to meet up!" So not even 2 days after I move back in, we set up a day to meet up. The plan was resort hopping on the Skyliner resorts uwu. I was feeling i n c r e d i b l y anxious about it partly because I did have a crush on this kid the last time I was living in Florida and partly I think because I was just going through a big life change and my anxiety spikes whenever I go through big life changes anyway. So. Anyway.

We meet up at our neutral third party location and start hopping to the various Skyliner resorts. I wanted to go to the Riviera so we went there for lunch (he paid for my lunch so we could use the CM discount... but then I venmo'd him back lol) and then he wanted to go to Art of Animation so we went there and hit up the arcade (he paid for my games) and then we tried to crash the s'mores activity put on by the recreation team but it got rained out and at that point I was pooped so I said I had to go home hehe.

Overall the vibes felt very platonic from my POV. The conversation was good but towards the end of the date(?) when I was tired and out of things to say he just went on a lot of random tangents. I did question his maturity level?? I felt like some jokes he was trying to make were like junior high level and I just didn't react to them.

His redeeming qualities

1. Good at planning fun things!!
2. Remembered things I told him
3. Has a sense of humor
4. Knows so much about Disney

I left the date(?) thinking he was not as funny as I'd originally thought he was but I still liked him... just not enough to reach out afterwards really. We haven't spent time together since or really talked at all! But we've said hi to each other every time we've seen each other at work. So that's that!

*An addendum

I do have to say too, while I did have a crush on this kid prior to the date it was one of those crushes where I had to ask myself, "Should I really have a crush on him?" There was just something about him that made me think we wouldn't actually be a good match. And I feel like getting to know him better confirmed that? Our backgrounds are really different. He's not as funny or charming as I thought. I still think he's cool and I say hi to him when I see him at the parks at work but I'm living without him just fine ¯\_(ツ)_/¯