Enter the handsome man to stir things up…

I’m in love. Well… not really but there’s potential.

Let’s forget everything about Cheap Thrill, because his job is done. A cheap thrill is there to keep you entertained until you find someone who you actually want to date. It’s like getting a temporary car from the dealership to drive while you wait for your new car to arrive. And my new car has arrived.

I suppose I’m getting ahead of myself here, because I haven’t actually talked to this new guy... yet.
Friday night, instead of working on a report (that actually still desperately needs to be finished) I decided to go to the gym (some people may call this procrastination). The gym is always dead quiet on a Friday night, and indeed it was except there was a new addition. He was the only other person working out and the only way I can describe him is handsome. He is strikingly handsome – he is in no way pretty, he is Cary Grant/Gregory Peck handsome.
He is the type of handsome that I would marry because our children would look like the kids in the Ralph Lauren catalog.
The only other man that ever caught my attention like this was Jake, not that that worked out particularly well, but what are the odds of this guy having sociopathic tendencies too?

I would have introduced myself, but our workouts weren’t really coordinated and at risk of looking like a lunatic jumping off the elliptical to chase after him, I decided it would be better to just wait.
The positive thing about him being at the gym on a Friday night is that most people that go to the gym alone on a Friday night are single. So for the next couple of days I will be on the lookout for Handsome Man at the gym, and ease into a conversation with the classic “I’m sorry to bother you, but you look so familiar. Have we met before?”

I mean this could be a total waste of my time and Handsome Man may already have a girlfriend, or boyfriend, or be a total jerk. Only time will tell.

Until then though, I’d like to consider the best possible scenario of him being single and sane and he’s just been so busy in medical school that he hasn’t had time to date until now…
What? – A girl can dream.