Hi all - lots of nice things happening, and hello to the new people..
I'm back in England for a week, which is lovely. It was 42 degrees yesterday in Hungaria which is just unpleasant.
So. As of the other day Aruba came over to mine, made food, we chatted, she stayed over and we ended up DTD. It was.. okay. Nice enough I suppose, she's very conservative - not that I was trying to swing from the chandeliers or anything, but I prefer the lights on rather than off, that kind of thing. I'll be seeing her again, but I'm not sure if we're really right for each other. That may make me seem like a cad but it was just.. not great.
However, I'm now somewhat guilt-ridden as I had an old friend, the Mermaid, come to stay for a couple of days. She's american, I've known her since I used to regularly stay in the hotel she worked in 10 years ago, where she used to greet me with a huge smile, a hug and a pint when I checked in every few weeks. We stayed in touch, met up a couple of times, compared wedding photos, that kind of thing, and we both split from our respective spouses last year so did some mutual commiseration over FB messaging. She's making a grand tour of Europe and came to see me. We went out, I showed her the sights, took her swimming in the thermal baths, and there was just suddenly a huge amount of chemistry.. So last night we almost DTD (not completely but sharing a bed and stuff happened..) and this morning I put her on a plane.. I'm going to be staying at hers in a few weeks when I'm over in the US.
Now there is no question of anything long term happening - we live 5000 miles apart, we both have careers, I have DC. But she made me laugh almost constantly when she was here. She's very attractive, it turns out she's had a crush on me for 10 years and married a guy who reminded her of me.
However, it made the situation with Aruba even less likely to succeed as it just put the somewhat strained conversations into contrast.