Okay, Phyl, just for you, here is an update on my dating life.
I joined CatholicSingles.com which is like Match.com but for Catholics. It was free for the basic stuff so I figured why not. Well, I got a hit right off the bat from a guy down in Lorton, Virginia, which is really right down the road. I checked out his profile and he seemed okay. He works in the defense industry and he is a volunteer firefighter.The one thing that struck me as a little bit strange was his age and the fact that he has never been married. But, hey, who is to say that he didn't get burned in the past.
So I responded to his initial email and gave him one of my proxy email addys. (Why yes, I have several email addys; doesn't everyone?)
In his very first e-mail, he was asking about kids and wanting to meet in person. Oookay... I may live in the country but I am still basically a big city girl and wary of meeting people who can not be vouched for by friends. And I told him that in the first email to him.
We have exchanged a grand total of 6 emails and he is still pressing to meet in person. And he has been asking some questions but he seemed really hesitant to answer my questions. Plus based on his profile, he is a much more devout Catholic than I am. I am something of a liberal Catholic who blends some Buddhist beliefs into my personal beliefs. He seemed a little bit put off by that but okay.
In the next to last email exchange, I flat out told him that until we got to know each other better through email there would be no meeting in person. His last email to me said something to the fact that I should learn to trust more easily and that this would be his last email to me.
Okay, that is fine with me since he wasn't willing to learn a bit more about each other through email than he wasn't right. Plus I prefer to err on the side of caution. It is better to be safe than sorry.
But that is okay, because I think I already have a keeper in the wings. I have been riding down at the truck house in the county for the past several months. And prior to that, I have had the chance to get to know one of the career guys (T) stationed there. T is married but he is a really nice guy. And we were talking one night and he asked my permission to give my cell number to a friend of his who lives down in Blacksburg, Virginia. (All together, how sweet!!)
The guy he wanted to give my number to is his best friend since like 3rd grade. G works all of the time between his job at Tech and helping his parents take care of 35 acres. Yes, he lives with his parents event though he is in his 30's but he has his own space on the family estate for lack of a better word. His parents need the help maintaining the acreage and rather than see them sell it off, he helps to take care of it.
I said yes to giving out my cell phone number. G is originally from up here and gets up here quite frequently as time allows. The first time, he called we ended up talking for almost an hour. The only reason that the call ended was that I got a fire call.
And every time we talk, we end up talking for at least an hour. T told me one day that G has been wanting to see a picture of me and T told me to just email him the pictures. And yes I did do that. I have seen one photo of G and yeah, I like him. The one thing that G asked T about me was I real. He said that I was sweet and too good to be true. T told him that yes, I really was that sweet. Okay, that really does give your ego a boost.
Now I would have willingly meet G somewhere half way between here and Blacksburg simply because T knows him and can vouch for him. Is that wrong? I don't think so, because T can vouch for him and has known him for well over 20 years.
And just so you have some photos to look at, I am going to give a link over to a friend's Myspace page that has a picture of my new ride as he puts it. Yeah, I like big trucks! And here is a link that has a picture of T in it. Ignore the short little s**t next to him because we all do anyway. (Not true, Matt, just in case you find this page!) yeah, both of them are cute and they are both really sweet.
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