I'm trying to get this here blog started with a background of the Maynes'. Today I want to reminisce about our second-first date.
Greg and I hadn't really talked since our first-first date. Because we were both crazy-shy. Most of the blame is on me because I am the one who started the no-more-talking deal. I really never thought I'd really see, or hang out with him, again.
It was towards the beginning of 2009 and I was working as a data-entry agent in the Elite Services Department of XanGo. It was the "slow time" of the month, so me and the other data-entry agent really just hung out until we were given work to do. A lot of my day was playing games on Facebook or browsing the internet.
While I was "working" I noticed I had a Friend Request on Facebook, so of course I check it out. As crazy as it sounds- it was Greg Maynes. After a LONG debate (wink,wink), I added him and stalked through his pictures, like a normal person would do. Later that day, or week, he wrote on my page just saying hi, and asking what I had been up to in the past .. a lot of years. I wrote back with the generic "Not much. You?" response. I thought it would fizzle out and that would be that.- Wrong again! We started writing to each other back and forth on our wall's and finally our messages got too long and we had to send it in a message. This went on for weeks. We got to know each other really well. He was working the graveyard-shift at Primary Children's Hospital at the time so I would get messages from him at really odd hours.I remember looking forward to his e-mails each morning, and sometimes the afternoon too. I finally got bold and gave him my phone number.
I'm not going to lie when I say that I was expecting a call within 24 hours. I can assure you that it did not happen. We still e-mailed back and forth, but he never asked a certain question.. the one I was DYING to hear. A few days passed and I had stopped staring at the phone (yes, i'm one of those girls). Who am I kidding, I still watched that thing like a hawk.
Sunday dinner came and went- I'm sure it was good, my mom can definitely cook. I just remember when my family and I were all hanging out after eating and joking around, my phone lit up! It was Greg (it was about ... time!). I played it cool. But only if cool means running and jumping over people while I ran to my room and slammed the door. But I did let it ring two or three times so he wouldn't think I was sitting around waiting for the call.
It was raining really hard and he was on the freeway driving to work. I honestly had the hardest time understanding him. I did make out that he wanted to take me out the following Friday, March 27th, 2009. (Is it cheesy that I remember the dates?).
So Friday night rolled around and I was getting really anxious. For those who don't know me, I'm a serious worrier- about EVERYTHING. So, the anxious thoughts started running through my mind a million thoughts per second, not literally (haha?). Any-who.. I just remembered how awkward things got after the first-first date. So I was a little worried, not gonna lie. Well he picked me up, and the first thing I noticed was that he was taller than I remembered. No joke. I don't think I've even told him that.
So our date began by driving to Lehi to go to a nice little Thai restaurant. We got totally forgotten about by our waiter. Our table was in the far corner, and no one was really sat by us. We were literally there for at least two hours. Luckily, things went extremely well. We talked and there were not any awkward pauses. It was a really crazy. We clicked almost immediately. After dinner we were supposed to go rock-climbing, but plans changed due to being neglected at the restaurant. Instead we opted to go to a movie. We decided to see Duplicity (with Julia Roberts and Clive Owen.. ring a bell?). It was not a good movie, to us at least. We talked through most of it. We normally despise people who talk through movies. But it was pretty empty and it was really stupid.
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