Text Message Dating

One night last week, I was at happy hour with a few girls. We were discussing dating and how much it has changed over the last 5-10 years. Gone are the days of a guy showing up at a girl's doorstep with flowers in hand. Gone are the days where a guy calls after meeting you. Most dates begin now with the guy and girl meeting at the place rather than the guy picking the girl up. There are so many ways to meet a guy now which makes that the safest option. 

Once you have met the guy, whether it be in person or on the internet, most guys now will begin conversation through texting or emails. How long should that continue until a phone call is made? If a guy is really into you, should he call at some point within the first few days or week? Should he call to schedule the first date?

I can only speak from my personal experiences. Recently, regardless of how I meet guys, it always begins with texting. I can tell you that the relationships that actually went somewhere, a phone call was eventually made within the first week. The relationships that never went anywhere, there was never a phone call. I have had guys that think it's OK to only text. I'm talking weeks of just texting and no phone calls. Those relationships never went anywhere. The only lasting relationships I have ever had was when the guy made an attempt to call within the first week of us meeting rather than relying strictly on texts to schedule dates. 

After discussing this at dinner, I was curious to see what other women thought....

I went to twitter and posted the following statement/question...

Agree or disagree....Don't accept a date over text messaging???

I have to say that I think it is OK to accept a date over text, but if he can't ever make a phone call, it probably will not go anywhere. I think a guy should call before the date even happens. If you want to plan it over text fine, but call before hand just to check in and say hello.

What do y'all think??

Find Mickey Shunick

http://findmickeynow.com/

Never do you expect things to go wrong in your small home town. I am from Lafayette, Louisiana where there is a girl missing and has been missing for over a week. Her bike has now been found about 20-30 miles from where she was last seen. 

The people in Lafayette and surrounding areas are coming together to help find Mickey. This post describes what Lafayette is doing better than I ever could. Everyone is coming together and doing everything they possibly can to find anything they can to get information on the whereabouts of this girl. 

https://www.facebook.com/findmickeynow

Social media is really helping to get the word out to all areas. There is no telling what city or state Mickey could be in at this point if the person that took her is traveling with her. 

How can you help??

Tweets, posts, donations, putting up flyers, etc

Information about how to help can be found at 

http://findmickeynow.com/

I can't imagine if someone in my family had been missing for over a week. 

The police department continues to update here:

http://www.lafayettela.gov/mobile/pd_newsreleases.aspx?PR_Id=4677

Some of my last moments in Houston

Last Thursday, my parents came to Houston because my mom had several appointments at the med center. Thursday night, we had dinner at Hungry's and dessert at the Chocolate Bar. I was so full from dinner so I just went for the company. 

I found these chocolate handcuffs and of course  immediately though of Christian Grey.

There were so many delicious things to chose from. 

Friday night, I spent time with my friend who I moved to Houston with 5 years ago. We went to Lupe's for dinner. I couldn't leave Houston without having the beef fajitas one last time! After eating at Lupe's we went  to a few bars in our area. 

Creepy or clever??? I am going with both!

On Saturday, I spent the whole day paying for those bar trips. Seriously, I got out of bed at 4:00 that afternoon. I moved from the bed to the couch. I never got out of my pajamas that day. 


On Sunday, I tackled quite a bit off of my to-do list. I went to Plato's Closet to see if they would buy any of my old clothes. I made $34. I am still curious as to what exactly their rules are. Apparently if it's nice, they don't buy it! Goodwill got a lot of nice clothes that Plato's wouldn't take!


I ran several other errands and starting packing for Charleston. It is very hard to pack for 2.5 months especially when I have no idea what my apartment in Charleston will have as far as kitchen stuff and other necessities. 


I ended the day with a neighborhood BBQ with Savanah, John, and John's family. I had a lot of fun and enjoyed catching up with Savanah before I leave. She will be my first visitor in Charleston and I can't wait to see her there! 


I hope everyone had a great weekend! 

Roommate Woes

If you are new around here, I am going to Charleston for the summer and subleasing my apartment in Houston to a girl from Wisconsin. She had to arrive 10 days before I was leaving so I said she could stay on the couch until I left.

So I have had my new roommate for about 3 days now. She is very sweet and seems normal. We are very different though. She is 6-7 years younger than me. She doesn't drink at all. Her sheets/dishes/silverware are all Disney themed. 

For example, there are some of these in my sink right now....

With that being said.....

 She leaves dishes in the sink, empty water bottles on the counter, etc. 

However, that is not my biggest problem. My biggest problem is that this morning I woke up and the air was on 85!!!!! I can deal with the other stuff for the next 7 days. This is not something I can do for 7 days. My AC is normally on 68 when I sleep. 85 is not OK at all. I am going to see what happens tonight. Maybe it was an accident?? I can only hope!

If not....

Any suggestions on how to handle this??

Sunday Disaster

Last weekend was spent getting things packed and ready to go to Charleston. I also had to get my apartment ready for my tenant who is now living at my apartment. I was pretty nervous about meeting her for the first time, but she seems very sweet and normal. For the next week, we will be sharing my apartment. It is definitely weird going back to having a roommate, but I can do it for a week! 


After lots of packing, I decided I wanted to have some fun. We went to Schlitterbahn Water Park in Galveston. I had never been before and have always wanted to go. We stayed for about 3 hours. It was a perfect time to go. There were no lines at all since it's still so early in the summer. There are not that many slides so because of that, we were done pretty early. We drove along the seawall and downtown. I wanted to get back early because there were still a few things I needed to do before my tenant arrived on Monday morning. We left the Galveston area around 4:30 with the intentions of being home around 6:00 after a quick stop at Rudy's. 

Disaster strikes

We were driving along 45 and ran over something which caused a blowout. Thankfully, there was a guy in the car that knew just what to do. He went to the back of the car, got whatever he needed to raise the car and then came the AWFUL news. 


He had gotten his tire fixed at Firestone a few weeks back and THEY FORGOT TO PUT THE SPARE BACK! So here we are, on the side of the road, and our spare tire is at Firestone, 30 miles away!!


There was not much that we could do other than call a tow truck and get towed to the nearest tire place. Well it's almost 5:00 on a Sunday. After calling multiple tire companies, our only option was Walmart and they close at 7:00. 


Enter into the story a lady that goes by Joann. She was the first towing person we talked to. She said a tow truck would be there in 30 minutes. Great news.....


45 minutes goes by and no tow truck. We call Joann back. She says her tow guy is working on a project so she called another tow truck company and they will be there soon. We call them and they tell us they will be there in 30 minutes. Another 30 minutes goes by and it's about 6:15 at this point. We have 45 minutes to get to Walmart or we are stuck there. 


We call the second lady back. Let's call her Susan. She tell us that her towing guy just cut his hand open and is going to the emergency room. Who knows if this is true or not, but we can't argue with it right? She tells us that there is nothing she can do.


We call Joann back and tell her that NO ONE is coming to get us and we have 20 minutes to get to Walmart or we will be stuck. She says OK she will send her tow guy AKA her husband who was working on a project for her! UGHHH! 


At this point, we are thinking there is no way we are going to make it to Walmart. End of story is that he arrived pretty soon and we RAN into Walmart at 6:58. Thankfully the mechanic was a super nice guy and agreed to stay an extra hour to help us out. If Joann had just sent her husband from the beginning, it would be have been incredibly awesome! 

They kicked us out and turned all the lights off. We had to sit in the parking lot and wait for the car.

We eventually did make it to Rudy's and shared some delicious BBQ. The brisket and the corn was awesome!

We finally made it home around 10:00 that night. I ended up going to bed after midnight, doing last minute things to keep my apartment ready for my tenant. 

After all the cleaning out drawers and closets, etc, This is all she brought with her! FOR 3 MONTHS!

I brought my car to Nissan to check another thing off my list. Now my car is safe for me to do the 20 hour drive east!!

Now I have one last weekend in Houston. I am sure it will be spent with more packing to get ready for me to leave next week. I plan to have some fun in the sun at the pool too. 

Anyone want to join me?? 

Anyone have any tips for driving 20 plus hours?? 

Books

When I was younger, I used to go to the library and check out 5 or more books at a time. I would go home and read them all in a week. I absolutely loved to read. As I have become older, I slowly stopped reading so much. For the past few years, I have read less than 5 books per year. I got a kindle for my birthday back in September and really did not use it until around February or so when I started reading The Hunger Games series. 


Since then, I have read many books and it feels great to get back into it. Some of the books I have read (and really enjoyed) in the past couple of months are....

Now I need to get a good summer reading list going. I will have lots of time on the beach alone in Charleston and nothing makes the time go by faster than a good book!

What are you currently reading??

Family Pics from the Beach

My mom wanted us to take the typical white family pictures on the beach. As soon as we opened the door to go outside, it started pouring! Thankfully it did not last too long! So here it goes...sorry for the picture overload! This is my last vacation post! 

Father/son picture- My brother and Brady 

Camille and Luke

The Navarre Pier

at Dewey's Seafood in Destin AWESOME FOOD

We stayed at The Pearl in Navarre Beach. 

We had a blast and cannot wait to go back! Most of our days were spent on the beach with the exception of going to Destin one day to shop at Destin Commons and the outlet mall. I got some super cute clothes from Private Gallery. 

 dress

mint skinnies

These fit me so perfectly! I wish they had more colors!

I got another dress, but couldn't find it online. 

While we were in Destin, we ate at Dewey's Seafood, which was soooo good! I would highly recommend it. It looks like a hole in the wall, and you would never ever find it unless you knew about it. 

Other restaurants we went to either on the way to Florida, while we were there, or on the way home were Tacky Jack's, Stinky's Fish Camp, and Wintzell's. The fried catfish and the oysters at Stinky's were awesome. The key lime pie was TO DIE FOR! Now I need to fast for a week to lose the 3434 pounds I gained! 

Beach Photos

Here are some scenery pictures from my trip. Tomorrow I will post my family pictures that we took on the beach. Most of these pictures were taken in Destin, Fl.