Weekend Wrap-Up

Friday
Came home from work and fought with my neighbors for the washing machines. Who knew Friday nights were so popular for laundry? Did a couple of loads, had dinner, and watched my new favorite horrible reality show, Miss America Reality Check. I still don’t exactly get the whole point of the show, it’s not like they’re picking Miss America, so why is it on?

Saturday
Slept in then headed out to the Valley for a mani/pedi and hair cut and color. I chopped off another two inches (!) and went darker. My natural color is close to black, and while I don’t want to go there, I was just getting tired of the light brown with blond highlights. I’m still getting used to it.

That evening, Jen and I had dinner, saw P.S. I Love You, and went for drinks. The movie was good, but of course, nowhere as good as the book. I think I cried throughout the entire book, and only found myself tearing up twice during the movie. And Jeffrey Dean Morgan with an Irish accent? Sucked.

Sunday
Easter in January at CVS!Slept in again then ran errands, including one that crossed something off my 101 list–I finally took my jar of coins to Coinstar at the CVS in West Hollywood. The machine has an option now that if you choose a gift card (rather than cash), you get the full amount back. So, I cashed in $19.07 in coins (mostly pennies) and now have an Amazon gift certificate for that amount. Pretty cool. It should also be noted that CVS had a display of Easter candy. In January. What the fuck? The rest of the afternoon was spent lounging around and cleaning.

Sunday night, I met a new Jdate guy for drinks at The Well. As luck would have it, they were closed for a private party, so I suggested The Woods instead. As we were talking about the bar, a guy in the parking garage overheard our conversation and said he worked at The Woods, and after a few minutes of chatting with him, we discovered they were opening late. Apparently the private party at The Well was for all of their employees at all four of their bars, including The Woods. Of course. So instead, we ended up at (where else?) the Cat and Fiddle down the street.

Over a few hours, we had two rounds of drinks, shared some food, and had fun and interesting conversation. At one point, I was telling him about my Little and he referred to the award I was honored with last year. I asked him how he knew about that, because I didn’t remember sharing that information with him (and my immediate thought was that he had found my blog, which I’m still not 100% sure he hasn’t, so if you’re reading, then um, hi!), and he said he Googled me (he knew my first and last name). I was more than a little surprised, and thought it was really funny that right when I give up Googling, my Jdate Googles me. The date ended with The Googler giving me a hug, and honestly, I have no idea if he is interested in going out again. I thought he was nice and funny and cute, and if he asks me out again, I would go. If he doesn’t, then at least I had a fun Jdate.

And now I need to go to bed because it’s almost midnight and I have to wake up in about six hours.

14 Comments »

Dawn

January 14th, 2008 | 3:34 am

The irony — the reverse Google! Funny!

YAY for fun dates!

Sara

January 14th, 2008 | 3:53 am

Were you surprised that he googled you or that he admitted to googling you? These days, I’m more surprised when I hear about someone who DOESN’T google dates!

H

January 14th, 2008 | 6:30 am

Sara, both! It just seems more like a thing girls do. But apparently not!

Hotty

January 14th, 2008 | 8:32 am

Nice to hear you had a nice date. Seems like nice guys are rare these days. Here’s to a nice second date with the nice Googler. oh yeah, the date is well, “HoT”

Jessica

January 14th, 2008 | 9:18 am

I always feel weird when someone admits they googled me. At least let’s pretend we’re not doing that, is how I feel.

Samantha

January 14th, 2008 | 9:44 am

Everyone googles - men and women. It’s just a fact of life nowadays. Very glad you had a good date :)

Ana

January 14th, 2008 | 1:25 pm

Hi Hilary,

Just curious about your hair/mani/pedi stop in the Valley… Any place/ Anyone that you would recommend for hair? I’m looking for a new person but have no idea where to go or how much to expect paying (my last person was not in LA, so i think it was considerably less expensive).

Thanks a bunch!

Laura

January 14th, 2008 | 2:16 pm

Sounds like you had a nice time! and he googled you wanting to know more about you. Imagine that, a guy more interested in someone else other than himself.

Sara

January 14th, 2008 | 2:47 pm

I’m okay with acknowledging the googling but I get a little weirded out when the person repeatedly brings up things learned while googling. A couple years ago a JDate found my resume online (had it on a site for a class assignment) and he kept referencing it. Creeeepy!

Ron

January 14th, 2008 | 6:58 pm

To some extent, the Googling (or using the search engine(s) of your choice) is a bit of an amateur background investigation method. I don’t blame any of you for doing it; after all, you might think of it as a necessary precaution. And besides, he wanted to get some material to get you to talk about yourself. Maybe it’s creepy to do so, but for some men (and women too, I guess) it may be hard to break the ice otherwise. I hope this works out!

Rivster

January 14th, 2008 | 10:01 pm

Yay for a fun Jdate. Or a fun date period!!

And I had no idea that guys Googled…what do ya know :)

Dawn

January 15th, 2008 | 5:35 am

HAHAHAHA! I just noticed the picture of the mini eggs! :)

God, I love those. They should be for Passover too.

What were the ones that we got last year from Montreal? Oh! Wait! I think I remember! Was it with pop rocks?

H

January 15th, 2008 | 9:25 am

Dawn yep! I still can’t find the Pop Rocks ones here in the US. Lame!

Dawn

January 15th, 2008 | 9:45 am

I’ll check out some stores in Connecticut this weekend and see what I come up with. I’m doubtful, though.

Failing that, I’ll try to remember to ask my Montreal family to bring some (if they can find them) when they come visit in February.

I’ll let you know if you should be on the lookout for popping chocolate in your mailbox. :)

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