Okay here's the deal. I met this lovely young lady online, we went out for drinks last Thursday. We hit it off, she paid attention, she laughed at my jokes, she matched me drink-for-drink. I teased her playfully, got some light kino in, nothing too intense.

So at the end of the night she offers to drive me home. We make out in the car for a while and I tell her "thanks for the ride, I'll be in touch." I call her Sunday, she doesn't call back right away, but today we text back and forth a bit ... my perception is, things are okay for now.

So this brings me up to the present moment. My question is quite specific, not really about seduction tactics per se, I'm just looking for guidance on communication for the next few days, since it could get tricky.

As you all know, Christmas is this weekend, and she mentioned she'll be busy with people in from out of town. The other snag is that on the morning of our date, her car happened to be broken into, and she's been dealing with the bank and the DMV etc getting her various cards and whatever replaced. This information isn't really important, except that she apologized for not engaging and communicating with me much the last couple of days while she gets that junk all sorted out.

So my question is this ... I don't really expect to see her in the next few days. How much should I try and communicate with her? I'd love to get another date in this week but I don't want to come off too pushy. I've got Christmas plans this weekend too, so I'm not really bothered anyway.

Obviously I'm not going to call her every five minutes like some needy bitch, but I'm thinking I'd like to keep some "tension on the line" so to speak. In my experience letting the line go completely slack hasn't really worked, leading to indifference on the chick's part and no progress for me.

I like this girl. She's smart, funny, sexy, HB8 I would say and for the moment I think I'm interested in getting to know her, not manipulating her into sex.

So, how do I play out communicating with her for the next week or so? Email/text/calls? How much? If anyone out there thinks I should just ignore her completely until she reaches out to me later, please let me know your rationale.

tldr: Please advise me on avoiding "letting the slack go loose" on a line I've got going with a pretty cool chick who I probably won't be seeing for a few days.