[miami32]

I find this incredibly humerous that I'm actually asking for dating/help advice but it can only help so what the hell.

Here is the deal-About a year and a half ago I was about to leave the University of Maryland. My fraternity was paired up with a sorority for greek week. Blah blah blah, I met 3 girls who happened to be best friends and hooked up with two of them. Well I'm an idiot. The one girl I didn't shack up with happens to be the girl of my dreams and I have since never stopped thinking about her. After The other two chicks and I stopped talking,I basicly stopped talking to Merideth. Well right before I moved to Vegas I ran into Merideth at a bar and asked her out. She pretty much told me that I had hooked up with her two best friends and had no shot. She wanted to be friends though. Yeah suuurre. Well Anyways a year and half has gone by. My lease is ending in Vegas and I'm coming back to Maryland for about three or four months before I move to south Jersey. I instant messaged her and said whats up basicly I was coming into town yada yada yada and do you want to get together and she said yes. SWEET! Well I guess time heals all wounds right. Well I know she thinks I'm going to try and get into her pants right away which I'm not. I've got a nice date planned-going to dc, capital grill(Classy place to eat) and then if all goes well I would take her to the roof at the Kennedy center. For anyone in the DC area the rooftop of the kennedy center is like plain and simple the best place to cap a date off. It has the single greatest view of the capital and you can see everytthing. After getting through all this I know one of the first things she is going to ask me is what have I been doing for the past year and half. Well after the fact that I'm amazed she even wants to go out with me, what am I going to tell her, I'm a degenerate gambler and play poker all day online? That this date is being paid for by empire poker rake back? I've never had to deal with this before. When I was in college I just told people I lived off of student loans but now I can't really do that anymore. I have a nice life style from poker/gambling. I'm very much afraid that this will ruin any chance I've got. Screwing this up was one of the single biggest mistakes I've ever made and I pretty much sure I won't get another shot. Any advice? Also do you think such a classy date is to over the top for a first get together?

Thoughts?