I met her at a bar maybe a year ago (a failed acknowledgement of a girl who's at a bar to get taken home and fucked), added each other on Facebook and we kinda sorta lost touch after that. I attempted once before to re-contact her in October of 2011, which was this:

ME: Hey, whats up?

HER: Not a whole lot. you?

ME: Just livin' the dream, ya know? haha. Going back to school in the spring, working towards an MBA. Lots of exciting stuff. It's been a while since I last saw you and I lost your number having to get my phone repaired. Give it to me again if you're interested in grabbing a drink sometime. It'd be nice to hang out with you for a bit.

Failure.

Well, since I posted pictures of my trip to California, She's been showing Facebook-related IOI's recently, such as liking photos and status updates. Clearly interested, so yesterday I see her on FB and send her a chat message

ME: So, I saw some crazy shit yesterday. Ask me what.

HER: Haha ok... What crazy shit did you see?

ME: I saw a dude get thrown off an eight story building. It was craaaaazy

HER: Omg. Oh wow... I thought you were gonna be funny... But that's insane!!

ME: Well, your reaction is funny. haha. that counts, right? Nah, but it was a part of a TV show film crew.

HER: Ok so wait.. real or fake?

ME: fake. with wires and a landing pad.

HER: Omg!!! Well.. you def had me goin..

ME: then it worked! :) They've been filming all downtown for like, 2 months straight

HER: What exactly were you trying to accomplish? Haha

ME: fooling you, duh. lol I'll show you a picture I took the next time I see ya.

HER: Well we should make that soon. That's somethin I'd like to see

ME: Glad we share the same idea. Just let me know when you're free and we'll set something up

HER: My schedule is normally pretty open. I work a day job now so I don't have to worry about workin nights anymore.

Then I tell her my weekend is busy, but I'm free tomorrow night and thursday night. She tells me tomorrow night is great. I tell her I'll call her later this evening, which I just did.

The conversation went like this:

ME: Small talk / HER: Small talk about the TV show being filmed.

ME: So, you wanna come have a drink with me tomorrow night?

HER: Sure. Where?

ME: Meet me at this bar at 9:00

HER: Sounds good to me.

We start both talking at the same time. I had planned to end the conversation here by telling her I needed to fold laundry and I had a friend coming over in a bit so I had to go. Well, she must have wanted to say something too, but she relented and allowed me to speak, so I got to tell her what I planned. To which she replied, "okay. Have a good night". I replied, "you too. bye"

So, I am very proud of my follow up. I retouched on a previous conversation that she and I had to breed familiarity that I was in fact the person she was talking to and then I cut to the chase, I didn't dance around it. I told her what I wanted her to do, where I wanted to do it and when. After it was done, I ended the conversation with no awkward talk.

:)