Everwhere is walking distance if you have the time

[ClingingToHope]

Insanely busy Friday but then a much slower Saturday and Sunday. Rest, catch up on projects, catch up on work. The next three weekends are all jam packed.

Last night D9 called me before going to bed to apologize for the meltdown on Wednesday. The funny thing is that I've gotten so used to these incidents that I couldn't remember what happened on Wednesday.

XW called at 7 p.m. because D12 wasn't at my house waiting for her to pick her up. She got bored and went to a neighbor's house. She wasn't supposed to do that, but XW was supposed to pick her up at 5:45. She was an hour late getting both girls.

When she called though I didn't say anything. Not a battle I needed to pick at that time.

Trying not to stress about lunch date being pushed back a week. OKC and I were messaging back and forth three, four times a day, now she's cut back to responding once a day.

She could be backing off or just extremely busy. She said she has tons of family coming over Saturday and Sunday for a birthday party then baby shower.

A friend of mine asked me if I had her number yet. I said no, I was going to ask for it at lunch. I thought that was a reasonable progression.

As long as date eventually happens I'll be fine. I just want to get back into practice. Looking back, it's always been once I got the date then it was good. I never dated a lot, when I did, it usually lasted several months.

But that was pre-Internet. Who knows now?

I read a chapter on online dating in Mark Penn's Micro Trends. In the latest survey, 2009, 17 percent of the marriages taking place that year were couples who met online. That was the same percentage as those who met in church.

I thought that was interesting. I still know people who look at me funny when I mention it, but really it's all about expanding your opportunity pool. OKC works in a different part of town. Lives in a city 20 minutes away. Her kids go to different schools. I used to work with her uncle, but he retired five years ago and I haven't seen him in at least two, so it's doubtful he even knows I'm divorced now.

The likelihood of us meeting without OKC was extremely low.

So it's all good.