lucky #3

so tonight was date #3 with the lovely ross, and it's for real, i really like this guy.

we met at reno, a pizza place near his house, and even though i got there 15 minutes early, he was already waiting there with a table for us. we got a chorizo pizza (omg, so good, i'm going to start eating pork if only for chorizo. seriously amazing.) and a desert cake thing to go, and he paid for it all, but promised he'd let me pay next time.

when we left the restaurant, there was a step down that i didn't notice, and he warned me to watch my step. while we walked, he talked about how he used to be a christian but considers himself more of an agnostic/buddhist now, but that he finds it really admirable when he has friends who are christians who are spiritual & let it uplift them more than dogmatic & centered on putting people down/placing restrictions on them. i talked about my spirituality and how i agree completely; that blake and i have different religious beliefs but are still thick as thieves because she is that wonderful type of person. he would tell me how long we were going to be on each street, because he hates when people are leading him somewhere new & he feels like he's walking forever. he lit a cigarette for the second time around me, asking if it was ok first, and literally stepped off the curb and started walking in the street any time we passed kids so he wouldn't make them breathe in his smoke.

i talked with his roommate, brad, who went to saic with me, and then when brad left we just sat on the couch and watched an episode of friends. we made out for a little bit, then went to his room & made out some more. it was really hot (there's a/c in like maybe 5% of chicago buildings, it's awful in the summer) so we both ended up in our undies. he was very explicit about the fact that we didn't have to do anything i didn't want to do, and i told him i didn't want to sleep with him yet, and he felt the same way. any time we went past just kissing, he stopped to make sure it was ok first, and was all about making sure i was comfortable and into it. we just talked & kissed & made jokes, and then after a while he went and got the cake & 1 fork from the kitchen, and he made me play this game where we traded off playing guilty pleasure songs on his computer. it was so awful/wonderful. ludo, coheed and cambria, riff raff, j-lo, big sean, mayday parade, and lots of my chemical romance. we had to listen to the whole song, no matter what, so we normally ended up laughing at the music videos or feeding each other cake. 

it started getting late, so i pulled on my dress & went to fix my hair in the bathroom, and when i came back in the room he was lying half on the bed, playing 'moon song' on his ukelele. ~swoon~

he's coming over tomorrow straight from work, and we're going to go walk around my neighborhood and take gitsy to bad dog tavern. this feels unreal, and wonderful, and positive in a way that no other date situation has. so here's hoping it stays