well... at least it was a nice dinner

I know i am a couple days late in posting... and that i haven't posted for a while... it just wasn't really on my mind... but i thought... well... i should post this...

On this past Sunday, i was standing in the lobby when one of the residents in the building "Joe" had come down. now... joe is adorable... i have seen him at the building socials and he's nice, cute, etc... and while he has made no remarks about his sexuality, the word on the street is he is gay. At the socials i see him hang around guys mostly, but he talks to anyone that will talk to him... like i said... nice guy.

Well being in the lobby, he stops as he's passing through and says, want to get something to eat later? !!!

he's asking me? I was kinda shocked... i am thinkin... hmmm... how to impress? I was like... well... i was planning on cooking tonight... how about coming over? He's like "sounds great, can i bring anything?" I said "nah... i got everything"

So... i went to the supermarket and thought, okay... what to make. I had thought of making chicken alfredo, but i needed to step it up a notch. So I made crab cakes, and mushroom fettuccini with shrimp alfredo (making sure to call him and ask if he was allergic to shell fish.)

So i start cooking and 6:00 rolls around. He comes down and we start chatting. I give him extra shrimp to nibble on before dinner starts... then everything is finished and we start eating...

The conversation goes here and there. but then we end up talking about cooking. He had asked if i had ever gone to cooking school... i told him i didn't think i needed it, because i learned all my cooking from my parents...

and that's when he said it. "I signed up at a local cooking class to meet girls, but i never ended up meeting any really."

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ugh... that sexuality enigma was made clear... he was straight. that was a serious blow right in the kidney! but... i didn't show it, and we kept on having a nice conversation... in the end... he was just lookin for friends and people to hang out with. which is cool (but i would have made just chicken alfredo damnit!)

in the end, it was a nice dinner, and he left saying he would call me to let me know when he could return the favor. if i could only catch someone like Joe... *sigh*

such is life