OOOOOkay, so I was all Miss Indecision about the Dan thing last night, but he TOTALLY just won points with me tonight and if he wanted to start something -anything- I think I'd be game. Story: So yesterday I had a pool party at my house at around 1pm and Dan and my best friend Richard ended up staying till about 10:30pm. It was a lot of fun but Dan acted like a total idiot most of the time and he just seemed really silly and immature to me. So I basically decided that the only reason I'd hook up with Dan at this point would be to see what it feels like to date the gorgeous football star and that wouldn't be fair to him or me and it would be really disrespectful to both of us. So today on the way into work I totally wrote him off as a potential boyfriend until further notice because that seemed the decent thing to do. Then today I finished work before Dan and went home to take a nap. Well he calls me as soon as he gets out and asks if I want a Romanian Lesson. I say sure and he comes over. We go swimming first and then we spend an hour or so learning Romanian at the kitchen table. PS. Never call someone an animal name or tell them to die in Romania... that is REALLY bad. Anyway. We call a couple of his old companions and talk for a while. Not knowing that I could understand, one of them asks Dan in Romanian if I am "prietenalui" (girlfriend) or "doar o prietena". Dan says "doar prieteni" which is nice because it cleared up some flirting things from last night that I was unsure about because, well, I don't know why he would have been messing around with my hand unless he was considering holding it. So now I'm like, good, only friends. That clears that up. Fast forward to twenty minutes later, we go downstairs to watch a movie and I hit his legs with a pillow to say "sit up". Well he sits up, grabs a pillow and puts it on my shoulder and the only place I could put my legs was on top of his. Totally harmless not reading anything into it. (it was a REALLY small couch and my bros and sis had the other couch. ) Long story short- by the end of the movie he has his hand on my waste. And for a good while it was just on my waste, not reading anything into it (once again, really really small couch) but then he actually holds my waste ya know? not, "I'm just putting my hand here cuz it's comfy" but actually holding my waste "because I want to hold you." So I'm sitting here thinking Oh My Gosh? is this really happening? Am I cuddling on a couch with the former football captain? Mind you, in high school he dated my friend who was like GORGEOUS and I was the dorky sidekick. Things like this did not happen to me. Dan Jacobsen was so unbelievably out of my league that I could barely talk to the guy let alone watch a movie with him! It was very surreal. So around this time I'm thinking, "ya know, I don't know what his intentions are but this was definately something that I never thought would happen and I'm pretty happy now no matter what happens."

So now I'm just not worrying about the friends, not friends thing because I honestly thought (and still do think) that nothing would happen (ya know, that whole respect thing). But then Dan decides to stay for dinner and I see this whole different side to him. He got along SO well with my parents and it was a really fun dinner, he was really great with my family. But this is the part where he wins points. I'm doing the dishes, and he goes out on the deck with my two little brothers and starts playing with them. I could see them out the window and he is being so good with them and I can tell they're having a really good time because they're laughing and you can just see that they think he's just so cool and they totally worship the ground he walks on now. Understand that the only role models my brother's have is my father who spent a year in prison and has like... the worst moral sense in the world, my brother who is an alcoholic and living with his girlfriend whom he just had a baby with (who is TOTALLY adorable by the way), and my step-dad who is such a good man, but he's a convert and isn't really that cool or whatever. Don't get me wrong, I love all of them and think they are great, but you should have seen my little brothers with Dan. Here he was; cool, tall, handsome, football captain, had just come back from a mission, was really funny, and was genuinely interested in playing with them and teaching them how to juggle! It was one of the coolest things I had ever seen with my brothers. Most of the guys that come over to my house just humor my brothers, if that. Most of them are too caught up with me or themselves to really notice them. And when Dan left tonight, my little brothers had such a good spirit. They were kind and peaceful and happy. I've never seen them act like that. So yeah. If Dan wants to be friends, that's cool (I honestly have NO IDEA what that boy is thinking). But I saw a totally different side to him tonight and I would totally date that in a second. And the best part of the night is when I'm out on the deck and my thirteen-year-old brother comes out and says, "Ya know, I think Dan likes you." When I laugh and ask why he thiunks that, he replies "I don't know, he just acts like he does and why else would he stay until 10:30 at night?" (What he doesn't know is that Dan's house doesnt' have central air and it's 93 degrees outside.) Anyway, I never expected to hear that from my brother, it was quite the bonding moment.

So there ya go. I've decided, I really like Dan no matter what happens and today was a very good day. THE END.


Now as far as hostels go. I'm totally fine about the changing hostels, but if we're gonna change I say do the cheaper one. The train ride isn't that bad and 23 bucks is a lot of money. I'm not mad, that's just what I'd prefer. If everyone wants Astor Victoria we can TOTALLY stay there. It's up to you guys. I'm going to bed now but I'll check the train pass thing tomorrow if I can. Luv ya lots!