One, Two Buckle my Shoe...

One of the first things I noticed about Cam at Cafe' Rio was his Chucks. I was impressed! LOVE Chucks!

1.    First off, you should all know that  I was kinda-sorta dating someone (Jimmy) when I gave Cameron my phone number at Cafe' Rio. Kinda-sorta as in it was our second time giving things a shot and we seemed to never be on the same page.  At the time I was waiting to find out if Jimmy wanted to date me exclusively or not.  While he took his ever-lovin'-sweet-time deciding, my sister advised me that I not just sit around and that I should date.
     I had become more and more confused and frustrated with Jimmy and our situation.  The longer I waited for his decision the more and more time I had to think things over.  Was this really what I wanted? Was dating Jimmy on an exclusive level, to see where things would go, did I really want that?  So when Cam hit on me, (uhh not only did she do a double take I got a triple take, who hit on who?) I returned the flirting gestures the best way I knew how.  The fact that Cam was ridiculously-good-looking didn't hurt either, right?

2.     Cam text me the same night he got my number.  Earlier at Cafe' Rio I had told him that me and a friend were thinking about going for a bike ride so we decided that we would make it a group bike ride.  We decided that we would met-up at Raintree and go from there.  So Sally, Jane, and I all headed that way. I had previously filled Sally and Jane in with the details of the events at Cafe' Rio.
       On our way over to Raintree, we met-up with Cam and met his friends there.  The bike ride was rather awkward, see Cam has this friend, his nick-name is "The Instigator"  but we will refer to him as Neil (I think Earl is a better name). Neil, played a nice part in, well, instigating awkwardness.  A couple times he attempted to "cock-block" Cam - for the soul purpose of getting under Cam's skin.
     By the end of the bike ride Cam acted like he want me to stay and hang out - but Sally and Jane were were just cruising their bike-butts home and leaving me behind! I was not about to stay and hang out with some guy I had just met - all alone. Uh, HELLO! He could have been a serial killer! So he asked me if I had plans the next day,  I was slightly vague about my plans but told him he should text me. (I thought about giving up here)
      I caught up to Sally and Jane and it turns out that Sally already knew Cam.  On our ride back to Jane's apartment Sally told me that she knew him because he had dated a friend of hers.  Sally, being a good friend, was just giving me a heads up and said that Cam and her friend were always off and on again.  She told me to just be aware they they had a tendency of always ending up - together.  I told her "no worries," after all I was still seeing Jimmy and who knows where things would go with him.  So technically, Cam and I were kind of in the same boat... or at least sailing in the same sea.

MIA Blogger

The reason for no other blog posts other than my first and only post:

1.       No motivation

2.       I overwhelm myself with the thought of having to tell “our story” and telling “our story” ever so perfectly.

3.       While writing in the past was a passion of mine and is often a source of keeping me sane, it has also become a chore for me.  What does one write about? How do people find time? How is it so easy for everyone else and why isn’t it easy for me anymore?  So I prolonged the blogging.

The reasons for attempting any future blog posts:

1.       Reading other peoples blogs and getting jealous that mine sucks!

2.       Finding the motivation in others (ok so reason 2 is really just a more positive way of stating reason 1).

3.       I think it is important to write down the important things in life - my future kids are going to need to know how awesome their mom was/is!

The true account of what happened June 2, 2010... or How I met Cam

Here is the complete and total truth of how Cam and I met...

      This one time, during the summer- I was craving some Cafe Rio.  Jana and I had been shopping at the mall. She was busy chatting and flirting it up with this guy that she liked who we had run into.  I was worried that Cafe Rio was going to close, so I took her car while she continued to do her thing. I cruised down to Cafe Rio to pick us up some food.

      While I waited in line to place my order, three guys got in line behind me.  I didn't think anything of it.  I ordered mine and Jana's food and heard the guys behind me discussing what they were going to order.  I heard them say something about ordering the salad.  I looked back at them, thinking to myself "I should tell them to order the Tostada instead, because it's cheaper and pretty much the same thing."But when I turned around I noticed one guy with dark brown, shaggy hair and these AMAZING blue eyes.  I quickly turned back around to continue ordering- maybe I chickened out because this guy was so cute!  I may have casually taken a second glance at the guy- But I definitely did NOT take a third look!

     As I moved my way down the line ordering my food, the lady who worked there turned to the guy behind me and said "Pork Salad?" The guy nodded yes- except it wasn't his Pork Salad, it was my order for Jana.  In a panic that our orders were going to get mixed up- I knew I had to quickly interject.  I looked at the lady and said "no, no, no" and then turned to the attractive guy behind me and held up my hand ( I did not touch his arm... I simply just held up my hand to stop the guy) (she touched my arm).  Then I repeated to him what I had told the lady, "no, nnnnoooo, no" I continued "Sorry, that's my order too."  He gave me a little smile and at some point I noticed that he had on some gray converse shoes- which of course I liked too.  The guy then started to chat with me a little.

  He casually teased me that  I must be really hungry if I had two orders (oh yes, he was that smooth).  I explained to him how one was for my friend and that I was going to meet up with her later. He continued to chat with me a little as I finished up my order. As the girl was ringing me up all I could think was "did he just hit on me? I think he might have been hitting on me!" But I was done, I had paid and now I just needed to get our soda and leave.  So I went to fill up our cups, while I still debated whether this cute guy was actually hitting on me or not.  "Should I give him my number?" I thought, "Or would that be totally embarrassing ?!" Apparently I had been debating the situation in my head a little too much because I found myself still at the soda fountain,  when he came over to get his water.

     Next thing I know he was offering to help me out to my car, and me not thinking anything at all about his offer other than that it was nice of him to offer, I said "Oh no, I think I got it- thanks!"  I guess you could say my independent side was taking over.  The second I said no, I immediately regretted it. Yes! Yes, this guy was hitting on me and I could not believe that I had accidentally shut him down!  I hadn't meant to, but I really didn't need help to my car!  I knew I had to do something!

     So I continued to linger a little longer, grabbing my napkins, the forks, or anything to disguise my lingering. Eventually I started to make some more small talk with him- after all I had shot him down!  I started by asking him if him and his friends were from around here (this was my casual way of trying to find out if he was just fresh out of high school- after all, the Seniors had all just graduated).  When he said that they were from Vegas and up here for school, I knew he had to at least be a Freshman- which wouldn't be ideal but at least that one would have been a lot less awkward than if he had been a High-Schooler.

    I then asked what him and his friends had planned for the night.  He said he wasn't really sure, and then his friend Kyle swooped in behind him and said "invite her to the pit." So then Cam turned to me and asked with some serious uncertainty to his voice- "Do you... would... would you want to do something?"  I smiled, and said yes.  He asked me for my name and got my number.

    It was mostly down hill from there... yep I said mostly...  more to come later.