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Beads left me text and voice messages last night, I could tell from the tone of each that she was pissed about something, which didn't exactly have me running for the phone to return her call. An hour later I called her back and, sure enough, she was pretty amped up.

We talked for a bit, she asked what I was doing, and I asked how her weekend was. Just your basic chit chat. I then asked if she wanted to get together Tuesday night (tonight) and she said "Well, do you want to?", I said "Didn't I just ask you?". As far as I'm concerned, there is no reason to start up this nonsense. The impetus behind this is that I didn't see her last weekend and/or I didn't invite her out to meet my dad.

Side Note:
It does bring up an interesting question. If all key elements of the relationship were the same, only I was more into the girl, would I have invited her out to meet my dad? The answer is probably.

Beads continued: "If you don't want to see me anymore, just let me know. I'm not into playing games". I commend what she said, but that's fairly heavy language for only having dated a month or so. We haven't had any serious talks, no commitment levels have been outlined. I understand her viewpoint, but I'm not sure she's justified here. If she would like to have a conversation about dating expectations, that is one thing, but you can't skip that conversation then act as if you had it.

I think Beads has reached the peak of the relationship bell curve.

I haven't talked to Tiny since Friday, I'm sure she's not all that happy with me either.

This morning I went to our office lounge to get coffee and Trouble was there filling her water bottle. There were a few other people in the room, including this dude Dean, a guy in my office that I'm friends with but haven't seen around in a while. I was doing my best to angle into a conversation with Trouble but Dean kept cornering me into talking about his two sons. I was bobbing and weaving like a golden glove boxer, but I just couldn't get away from him. Finally he said "So, you still dating that girl?". I have no idea who he was talking about. I don't recall ever mentioning any girls to him (the nice thing about the blog is that I get a lot off my chest and rarely talk about women except with a few close friends). I kind of froze because out of the corner of my eye I could see that Trouble had turned her head slightly and was now listening....

It's at that exact moment that NN The Idiot Boy decided to show up. I had one of those out of body moments where I could see and hear myself talking, as if I was passively hovering in the corner of the room, but I had no control over my mouth. I blabbed for a minute about not dating anyone, but always looking around...and finally autopilot disengaged and I was able to shut myself up and walk out of the room. It was quite a performance.