2nd date?!?

Phil and Noah got my hopes up for a phone call. I mean, I just sent the girl flowers out of the blue! They definitely had me ready and waiting for an exuberant phone call from her thanking me. Yeah, that didn'’t happen. Instead I got about a 5 line email. It was happy in it's tone, which was good, but I just let myself get too high of expectations. Later on I found out that she'’d had a sort of crappy day so the flowers actually where very good timing, and that made it all more worthwhile to me. I'’m glad I did it. However, I'’d already convinced myself that when she called all excited would also be a perfect time to ask her to go on another date with me. So, again, when she didn'’t call, that sort of took some wind out of my sails a bit. After thinking about it more though, I reminded myself just how much I really wanted to go on another date. So, Thursday on my all night road trip out to Shorb'’s, I got several pep-talks from several friends in order to gain the courage to actually give her a call and ask her out again. She said she'’d love to go out again and sounded pretty excited about it too, which kind of surprised me. Needless to say, the rest of the trip flew by cause I was on cloud nine. She wanted to come down to Indy this coming weekend. So, I'’m going to Taylor to pick her up and bring her down. Now all I have to do is figure out what to do. I'’ve been thinking about it pretty much since I got home Monday. I've got several ideas. In fact, I called her on Tuesday cause I kinda realized that I didn'’t even have a very solid idea about what exactly she enjoys doing, or what she would have fun doing with me in Indy. So, that was the goal. It was also a side goal to be on the phone with her for more than like 10 minutes (which would be about as long as it would take for her to answer my questions directly and hang up). In other words, I was really hoping to have a real phone conversation with her. I wasn't optimistic cause I didn'’t think she was that comfortable with me yet. So, when I called, she wasn'’t in the room, so I left a message. When she called back, to my surprise, we talked for over half an hour! Now, I could be totally wrong in this read of the situation, but it seemed to me that she was just as interested in having a real conversation with me as I was with her. I mean, she answered my questions, but we also talked about other stuff as well, and it wasn'’t like I was artificially asking questions to prolong the conversation past what it should have been. For about 35 minutes, the conversation flowed it'’s natural length and drew to a very natural close. Oh wow! It'’s a good feeling to have when you'’ve just talked on the phone with a girl for the first time in a causal sort of way. Maybe I'’m not making sense right now, but you know, It'’s just one of those things I guess. One of those things that does it for me. To talk on the phone just to talk and to hear her talk simply because you'’re so intrigued and infatuated by someone that you can'’t wait for the next meeting that you have to resort to the telephone!. I love it. I hope that it happens again soon and I hope it feels and normal and natural as this Tuesday night felt. So yeah, all that to say, we'’re gonna go walking downtown on Saturday. You know I will be a very unhappy camper if it rains, cause it'’s gonna be kinda chilly, so walking in the rain is out of the question, but walking in the cold is a definite possibility, and if we'’re walking in the cold, maybe she'’ll grab onto my arm again. And if it'’s cold, maybe she'’ll ask to wear my coat and if that happens you can be sure that you and I will never speak again cause I will promptly have heart failure and die, but it will be the most exquisite mental state one could be in, I'’m sure and if that's the way I die, I think I could be quite fine with that.