new prospects

So let's call him "Far Away Guy." He lives in Phoenixville and works in West Chester. Those places are pretty far away. But I like him, so I think it's okay.

We first met a few weeks ago, I'm not sure when. (It was back in the first warm phase... I was wearing a skirt/tank top.) We met at the German beer place on South St and had a drink and talked for a couple hours. A week and a half later or so he came back into the city for Sunday brunch. We went to Farmicia and it was delicious. We hung out in my house later and played with my cats. I think he might be allergic to them, to be honest, but he said that he wasn't. After he left, I texted him about me being awkward or something and he responded with "no, you're perfect." (Awww.) Then he came into the city last night for the third time! We went to the Standard Tap in No Libs ... I had an amazing burger, we each had a couple beers. Conversation is easy with him. We have similar tastes. I don't really know what's different about him in comparison to the other dozen guys I met off of match.com (my profile on there is officially deleted, btw), but we seem to click. I was looking for something in the others and was getting pretty fed up with it all, but this guy is nice and so we will see. It's funny how that happens. On Sunday afternoon, I'm going out to Phoenixville (via bus) to go to a beer festival/goat race at the Sly Fox Brewery. I'm excited.

In other news:

1. I still dislike eHarmony. Frankly, it is too much work. I can't keep up with it - and am not really talking to anyone from there. I still have a subscription for almost 2 months though, so eh.

2. Broad St is Sunday. I averaged a 10:40 mile last year, but I actually ran five 10 min miles and five 12 min miles (approximately). I'm hoping to average a 10:30 pace this year and actually keep something around that pace for all 10 miles. The improvement in time might be slight, but improvement in performance would be pretty significant.

3. I've officially started strength training again and am going back to yoga starting Friday. I love to run, but JUST running is not doing a whole lot of anything to my body (but I'm sure that my heart is awesome). I even went to spinning yesterday. I think I might start doing that once a week too.

4. I think there are something like 36 more days of school and 6 Mondays left. We are going on a field trip next week to the Camden Aquarium, and I am pretty excited. I don't think that many (if any) of our kids have been there before! And thanks to a target field trip grant, it's only costing them $2!!