Confused: Jason

i got stood up last night by Jason. we were supposed to meet up for dinner (his idea).

the backstory: despite the limited face-to-face dates, we have mutually been texting each other every day. i knew that we both had friday off, so i asked him if he'd like to meet up for a pho dinner. he said he wasn't sure, that he might be visiting a friend out in the country, but would keep me posted. well, by 5:30pm on friday i STILL had not heard back from him so i sent him a text saying "i guess you're out for pho. have fun with your friend". he responded immediately and apologized, explaining that he had blown his tire and had been at the garage all afternoon getting it fixed. a weak excuse, seeing as he clearly had his phone with him. in any case, he then suggested that we move our dinner plans to sunday. i responded and said sure, sounds great and he said that we'd figure out the details later on. we spent most of saturday day right up until the wee hours of saturday evening texting one another. the last message i sent him was something to the effect of being excited for pho! he didn't respond, but most likely because it was late and he had fallen asleep.

no texts on sunday. not one. that was weird, i thought. i decided to hold off contacting him, just to see when/if he would get in touch with me. he didn't. and yet, one of the annoying features on POF is that you can see when someone was last online. he had been online a few times yesterday. i started to feel angry...angry that i had even worried that maybe something had happened to him. nope, he's still in good shape to be online dating. by 6pm i said screw this, and cooked myself dinner.

against the advice of my own mother and some friends, i sent him a text about an hour ago saying that i was a bit confused, thought we had dinner plans last night and was disappointed when i didn't hear from him. no response yet. i can entertain myself with thoughts of "oh well maybe i just didn't receive his text(s)" (something that does genuinely happen from time to time), but if he REALLY wanted to meet up with me, he would have called to follow up (or facebook msg'd, POF msg'd or emailed for that matter!).

i might not hear from jason at all, and there's my answer. but it would have driven me crazy not letting him know that i was somewhat upset. i'm the kind of person that needs closure, even if i don't necessarily get it ("how will you feel if he doesn't respond?"). the funniest part is that we technically have date plans this saturday to visit a brewery (my fave beer!)together.

i think it's safe to say that i need to move on from jason. i'm not holding my breath that this guy will contact me again. i just hate that feeling of not knowing what went wrong. the worst part is when it comes completely out of the blue and you didn't see it coming AT ALL. oh well, i can't be too upset because i really didn't know him very well at all. and i'm the kind of person who wants to go on regular dates with someone i'm interested in, not have them spaced out and sort of all over the place with primarily a text message relationship.

NEXT! i just wish i had another potential date on the horizon to distract myself...