Dave and I had our first date on January 17, 2004. Initially, we were going to go to an OU basketball game, but he cancelled on me so we decided to meet the next Saturday and do something else. I think we had been planning on going to go get drinks after I got out of work (at 8:00) but I got out of work early that day because it was super slow and I decided I would rather go home and make myself look cute for my date than stand around staring at my co-workers picking their noses.

Dave picked me up around 6:00 to go to dinner. The first thing I noticed when he arrived was his cute curly hair! He had been wearing a hat when I first met him and I had no idea how rad his hair really was. ;) We decided to go to Cooker by OU, but when we got there the building was pitch black and the neon sign was off--it was closed. (Side note--I've always been a little upset that Cooker went out of business because they had awesome food. I think Carson's is technically supposed to be the new Cooker, but it's just not the same).

There aren't that many restaurants that are right by OU, and we ended up going to Crapplebees for dinner. We had to wait about 20 minutes to be seated, and we somehow got on the topic of high school and I think we talked about marching band the whole time we were waiting. We had a good time at dinner. I think there were a few typical first-date lulls in the conversation, but overall we had a lot to talk about. I'm usually pretty quiet around people I don't know well, but I felt comfortable talking to Dave.

After dinner, I had no idea what we could do but Dave immediately suggested going to Mainstreet Billiards. I liked that, because I'm just an indecisive person and I like when people suggest places to go. I also liked that as we were walking to the car, Dave was holding me around the waist so I didn't slip on the ice.

Mainstreet Billiards was also a lot of fun (I had never been there before). We sat at the bar and talked some more, and then a table became free so Dave "taught" me how to play pool. I didn't tell him at the time, but I had already had a few other guys try to teach me to play before that, and it was pretty much a hopeless case. Dave tried his best, but I sucked and I probably always will suck at playing pool. Nevertheless, it was really fun. After a few games of pool we went back to the bar and somehow the conversation turned to past relationships. It sounded like Dave had dated a lot, and he even dated one of my sorority sisters. Because I still didn't know him well, I didn't want to get my hopes up that he wanted a relationship (in case he was the kind of guy that dated like 3 girls at the same time or something).

We held hands when we walked back to the car and Dave drove me home. At the end of the date we said goodnight and I gave him a hug, although he says I gave him the "cheek" when he was trying to kiss me. I didn't even know he was going to kiss me, and I was also getting over a cold so I wasn't even thinking about kissing him. Apparently this bothered him a lot because he thought I didn't like him, but that totally wasn't the case. I had a great time, and I'm looking forward to a fun life w/ him:)