re: How I Met Your Mother Season 8 full season thread

How many episodes are left in this season? Ted has already seen his future wife (the last scene when he's ogling her while she's on stage), so he at least knows that he wants to talk to this woman. You would think the next logical step would be maybe an episode or 2 of him talking about her to everyone in his bitchy ted way, then an episode of finding her, then finally meeting her.