Mr. Peanut

Who would have guessed that March 2011 would be my mass blogging month? I sure didn’t. haha

Seriously though, this has been fun!

Well now, what to talk about… How about a new guy?! I think I’ll stick with a nickname until he gives the thumbs up to use the name his mother gave him, so for blog purposes, his name is Mr. Peanut (thank Cake for this one). I told Mr. Peanut last week about my blog, where the idea came from and encouraged him to read it. He seemed to think the insight to the scripture was cool, so I really hope he is reading it, but even more, I really REALLY hope he’s not being freaked out by it. I also told him that I hadn’t written about him yet, but not to freak out to much when I actually did. *grin* So no freaking out since today is the day you’re getting written about, k? k. Well, you can freak out a little… just get over it quickly.

I was planning on going a different route with this post, but I read this article at MormonTimes.com Take time, not tests, to get to know your date | Mormon Times and have decided to make a simpler post. Mainly by not thinking so much, which is something I have been continually trying to work on. You can tell I’m getting older and hopefully a little wiser… My thought process about a guy I like is way more simple than it was a year ago. Seriously Yo, this Mr. Peanut crush is different. Kinda refreshing.

We have been on two dates (one of them is referenced further along in the post), not including when I invited him over to dinner with the Missionaries, so if you want to be technical, I can say even dinner with the missionaries was a partial date… It was paid for, planned ahead (OK, a little planned ahead, I called him that morning to see if he wanted to come over for dinner :), and we did pair off after the Elders left and went for a walk and talked.

This Mr. Peanut is an awesome guy! Funny enough, he came highly recommended from a mutual friend and I am liking that we have so much in common. It’s a simple concept, but having things you like to do and some thought processes in common does really help when getting to know each other. Question asking is easier and understanding each other is easier. I really like that talking comes pretty easy, don’t get me wrong, I still get a little nervous, because he is a cute boy *wink* and I am Sarah, I'll get over it eventually, but for now, humor my fast talking and my lack of making eye contact sometimes. Thankfully, I usually get over my weird shyness and am able to be myself.

We’ve been able to talk about things in the world, things about ourselves, and most importantly, spiritual things. I really appreciate his testimony, not only when he shares it in a conversation we are having, but when I see him actually trying to live up to it. He’s a return missionary and has a love for the Temple which is a COMPLETE plus.

So is he a good guy? Yes. Cute guy? Yes. Funny guy? Yep. He is polite, smart, and loves learning new things. I like him, but some good perspective I’ve learned from previous dating experiences has taught me that I need to be just as open to seeing his “not so complimentary traits” too. I know that having the idea that someone is without flaws, is just dumb because we are all human and we’re here in this life to learn. Each of us have a few “not so complimentary traits”, but I think that each of them can give us an opportunity to grow if we let them. Mr. Peanut has been very open about his forgetfulness and his procrastination traits and I’m glad I can see them, but they haven’t bothered me thus far. Who knows, what if I bug him with my freaky thinking ahead and being organized traits. Only time will tell I guess.

Here is the aforementioned date story…

Last week we went on a double date; a picnic (Antipasto yumminess) and Frisbee date in the park with some of my good friends, Tyler and his wife, Gina. I had a really good time and I hope he did too. We all got to talk and I think he saw that I was serious when I said I loved to cook because Tyler brought up that we still need to open up our restaurant. (Side note: Our future goal is a Diner with emphasis on specialty pancakes.) It was a fun and comfortable night with good people, nice weather and a pretty view. I for sure made some dumb moves that night, I’m still awkward at this dating thing, but I’m willing to practice, practice, practice, because I do here practice makes perfect, lol. It seems I wasn’t that awkward though, he’s still talking to me *wink*

After the date he had to head off to a meeting, so I hung out with Tyler and Gina for a bit. It was nice that Tyler and Gina liked him. Good sign, friends like guy I like and they said he was really nice. I did tell them that I wanted him to ask me out for another date which Tyler replied back, “maybe he doesn’t know that.” I said “he should know that”, but then I remembered I’m a girl and we think differently than guys. So if Tyler thinks he might not know that I want to go on another date with him, maybe I should really tell him.

So… I did.

Last night I saw him at an activity. We got to talk a little bit, but because so many people were around, we didn’t have any kind of in depth conversation. Which is totally ok… remembering the article referenced above and the thought of “slow and steady” that keeps popping in my head whenever Mr. Peanut happens to wander into my thinking, has me trying to just enjoy whatever time I happen to be around him. It’s nice. Anywho, back to the telling him he should ask me out story…

On my way out to my car, he was standing, ok kinda playing on the bike racks by our cars, I’m assuming waiting for other people to come out that he needed to talk to, or maybe it was me he was waiting to talk to ;) anyway, as I passed by to say goodnight, this strange courage to go out of my comfort zone overcame me. So instead of just saying goodnight after making my usual funny face I make to guys I like, I sincerely smiled and told him he should probably ask me out again… there may or may not have been some eyebrow lifting encouragement on my part, he did reply with a smile, “reeeally?” ,in a cute way, so I smiled right back and said, “yep, really”. I then headed towards my car where folks were waiting to get in and I then turned and smiled again.

Awkward flirting coming from Sarah? Check. Sorry if you laugh when you imagine it *grin*

We’ll see what happens. I like spending time with him, it’s really comfortable to be with him and I really like talking to him. Two big perks! I’ll let ya know if there is any return from this "ore" *grin*