Quickest Date Ever

A few nights ago, I had probably the quickest date of my life.  I went back on Plenty of Fish (an online dating site) mostly so I have stories to blog about.  This guy sent me a message a few weeks ago.  We chatted a couple times and then exchanged phone numbers.  We sent a couple text messages and then nothing. 

About a week ago, I got a call from him.  I had programmed him into my phone so I knew who it was.  I didn't answer and he didn't leave a message.  The next day I sent him a text asking if he had called?  He said he did.  Then we exchanged a couple very general text messages - how are you?  great weather, isn't it?  Etc, etc.  

A couple nights ago I get a call from this guy.  I decide to answer.  "Hello" I say.   He says "Hi".  I say "Hello".  I know who it is because I saved the contact , but he doesn't know I know who it is.  This drives me crazy.  I've had this happen before - a person I meet online, whom I've never spoken to, calls for the first time and doesn't identify himself.   Really??  I have very good friends that I talk to on a weekly basis who still identify themselves when calling on the phone.

He asks me if I know who it is.  I tell him the name that I have the number programmed as.  He said he has my number programmed with my name.  Ok, so we’re getting there.  He asked a couple questions and I start to feel that maybe he was getting his "fish" confused.  Sometimes, on these sites, there are multiple people that you’re communicating with and it is hard to keep them straight, especially if 3 of them have the SAME NAME.   (This is why, in talking about my online dates - they get descriptive names like "Airplane Guy" or "Symphony Guy" or "Drunk Guy".   This naming system is an episode in “That’s Our Kelly” - coming to a theatre near you... well maybe someday.) 

So he said he was going to the casino in Delaware Park for the a few hours and he just happens to be passing by where I live.   He asks if I want to go with him.  Well I’m generally a spontaneous person and have a little adventure in me.  So for a brief second I consider it.  But I say no and give a list of  lame reasons – I have to work tomorrow, I just finished mowing the lawn and it would take me forever to get ready, yada, yada, yada.    He said he just pulled over to wait for me.  

Well, I figure if I get to the mall where he was waiting I’d convince him to go for a drink or dinner so we could get to know each other.   Turned out he was meeting a friend at Delaware Park and can’t blow him off.   So we made tentative plans to meet on Thursday, he gave  me a hug and off he went.   I was with him for about 10 minutes.   The quickest date ever. 

He did call later to apologize for being a d**k for not staying and going to dinner.  

Well, I wish the story had a more interesting ending, but after exchanging a couple voice messages, we never talked and never went for a follow-up dinner.  

Such is the dating life of Sitcom Kelly.  (In the outline of the ‘That’s Our Kelly’ show, each episode ends with the name of the guy – in this case Casino Guy – on a headstone in my graveyard of love.)

On next week’s episode... 

And Here It Is

Years ago, while sitting around the lunch table at work, talking about my rather entertaining/chaotic life of dating, friendships, travel and well, just every day existence, my good friend and former co-worker, Bluzdude, thought it would a great idea for me to blog about my adventures.  That was about 3 years ago.  A year after that – I acquired my blog name, server, etc.  (I’m not even sure if this terminology is correct).  Well a year after that and after many years and many more happy hours filled with pleading by Bluz, here it is.  I'm ready to actually press "Publish."

The lunch time conversations – mostly about my adventures in dating – became the foundation for a sitcom about ME.  Bluz brilliantly drafted an Episode Ideas document about the sitcom and after about 4 years now, I think we have enough material to really pitch the idea to Hollywood .  And I think it would be a success, too... I know I laugh every time I read the notes.  And heaven knows how many times we've seen our ideas used on other sitcoms that appeared since the document's creation. 

But back to the blog.  One of my favorite shows is "30 Rock," featuring one of my favorite characters/actors, Liz Lemon/Tina Fey.  One of my favorite lines from Liz Lemon is “and there it is”.  It comes from the episode where Liz is at an ex-boyfriend's wedding and she meets a guy that has so much potential until he mentions a group he's in called the fluffies.  Liz's response:  And there it is...

Well after that episode, it seemed that catch phrase appeared everywhere.  But I still loved it   So when I was looking for a blog name, I thought it would be perfect if it was called “And there it is”.  It was so applicable to my life.  Everytime time something seemed right, the “And there it is moment” was only a moment away. Well wouldn’t you know, it was already taken… by someone who hadn’t posted anything either!  (Imagine that…).   So I decided to name my blog after our sitcom – That’s Our Kelly.   When typed all together it became: thatsourkelly, which could be taken as “Thats Our Kelly”  OR  "That Sour Kelly."  While the latter is probably more appropriate, it fits either way.
 

Every time Bluz and I get together for a happy hour or a baseball game or even if it is just an exchange of emails, I always hear “See, this would be a great blog” or “That's an episode”.   

So given that we don't know any Hollywood producers, nor do I want to move to California and starve to death while I hawk a partially written script idea, I figured I'd tell my stories for you here, on a blog, commercial-free.

Great, now Bluz wants me to go out there, just to provide fodder for more episodes... But I think my life here is crazy enough...

You'll see.