As Nervous as a Turkey at Christmas

I’ve hardly any finger nails left and I’m sure I won’t get a wink of sleep tonight from the worry. In fact, I’m sure a turkey at Christmas would be much calmer than me at the moment. And the reason behind this? Well, I have a lunch date tomorrow with quite possibly the woman of my dreams. My job interview was a walk in the park compared to my current nerves and the flutters in my stomach.

I’ve had many a false dawn, and I’m not even going to tempt fate and say that I have a good or bad feelings about this, but all I’ll say is that it was completely unexpected. In fact, it goes to prove that you should always expect the unexpected as I very nearly didn’t contact her.

I’d already marked her as a “favourite” on Match.com, but because she was so attractive – with a sparkle in her eye and profile to make the heart flutter, I decided I that didn’t stand a chance. However, this was going against my “if you don’t ask questions, you don’t get answers” ethos, so at the end of last month I decided to drop her a line.

I didn’t hear anything for a few days – in fact I’d given up – when I received a message out of the blue. Before I opened the e-mail I’d already guessed its contents – the usual “thanks, but no thanks”, but far from it.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, for various reasons she gave me her phone number to text her and it was soon a case of “definitely like to meet”, “I can’t wait to meet you” and “when can we meet up?”. So after speaking to her today, I’m now even more nervous – and excited - than ever before. I guess I’m kind of shocked by it all too.

So, all I can do now is go with an open mind and be the only thing I can be – myself. Perhaps, with Easter nearly upon us, miracles really do happen.