Merry Christmas to Me

Last Christmas Eve, I received two emails. A response from "British guy" and a new email from "Beaver county guy". I haven't heard anything from "Picky guy" since he sent me an email saying that he was busy with family stuff and making the job decision and hasn't been online. He's been online - it says so in his Match.com profile. If he gets in touch that's cool, if not then I might have dodged a bullet (a/k/a another engineer.)

"Beaver county guy" actually wrote to me first on Christmas Eve. I had sent him an email a few weeks previously - I believe it was the same time that I came across "British guy's" profile. Apparently "Beaver county guy" had let his membership to Match.com expire but he signed up for another month to read my email after he saw my profile. That was flattering. I actually had emailed him instead of just winking at him initially because I really identified with a lot of the stuff he had in his profile. So I wrote him back on Christmas Eve and received a response on Saturday. I responded to that email last night and this morning there was an email from him in my inbox.

However, I have been talking to "British guy" longer and am really looking forward to meeting him in person. I waited until Friday to write back to him since I always wrote back so quickly. I figured it was best to wait a couple days. He did ask me for more pictures, which I couldn't attach and now they are added to my profile. Fortunately there were some good recent pictures of me that I was able to upload so hopefully he'll think they're good, too. I did forget to wish him a Happy Boxing Day, but maybe that's best. I don't want him thinking that I'm some giant Anglophile (which I am) who is more concerned with his accent than his personality (which I'm not.) We continued our talk about sports, holiday plans, people we have met in our offline worlds, and work. "British guy" did put it out there that maybe after the New Year is over and things aren't so crazy with short work weeks that maybe we should get together.

Is it Thursday yet?!?! Can it be after the New Year now? I would really like to meet this guy and see what happens. Also, too, because if things go well, I'll have to figure out what to do with "Beaver county guy" because I don't want to date two people at once. And if things don't go well, then I would like to still be talking to "Beaver county guy". I'm also trying to keep this as a first in first out operations process. Seeing as how I've been talking to "British guy" longer than "Beaver county guy", I think it's only fair to meet "British guy" first and see how that goes. However, "Beaver county guy" responds much faster and mentioned in his most recent email that he is better with his wit and sarcasm face to face, so I have a feeling that he would be more apt to schedule a time to meet before "British guy" does. I think my best bet is to meet "British guy" first, see what happens, and if "Beaver county guy" wants to get together, I will have to say that I'm really busy early in January and try to schedule something for later in the month.

So the process continues of the email discussions and me stalking my inbox, waiting to hear back from "British guy" and "Beaver county guy".