I will now share a story from my birthday and some thoughts:

I don't really like planning parties for myself so I usually default to going out to dinner. So my parents took me to Red Lobster and I pigged out on crab legs. Yay! That's all I knew I wanted. Of course there are a million things I want but that's all I could think of.

There was a server that was working the table next to us and started talking to us. He seemed pretty nice, really cute (I am a sucker for facial hair I guess) and charming and pretty much perfect and super friendly. :) At one point the thought crossed my mind, "I think he is trying to flirt with me...." It was kind of annoying... I was busy inhaling crab legs!  Because everyone else had finished their meals and were all waiting for me to finish mine, I was trying to eat faster than I already do (which i'm quite sure is impossible). 

Anyways! Back to the flirting..... well my parents were there, so we said goodbye and left...

I went to a Dave Ramsey class that night and on my way home, mustered up the courage to drop off my number to the hostess at the door of Red Lobster. I've never actually done that before but decided "what the heck! It's my birthday and I can do what I want! Besides, I'll never see him again if I was in fact picking up the wrong signals."  It didn't help that she mentioned he gets phone numbers all the time... gahhh! I tried to take my number back but she wouldn't give it to me!

To my surprise, later that night he texts me and then calls and we talk on the phone for three hours. And I like him already. And I think he likes me.... :) It's a miracle! This doesn't happen to me very often! I always say, "it seems like it takes a miracle for two people to actually like each other equally" but I am now quite certain it takes an even bigger miracle for two people to like each other equally and actually be a good match.

let me illustrate for you just a few differences:
I am lds - he is doesn't believe in organized religion
I want kids - he doesn't and can't
I plan to get married in the temple - he doesn't plan on signing any kind of marriage documents
I don't have sex before marriage - he sees it as necessary
I don't drink - he does

still waiting on a huge miracle....