Finding Solutions, Not Distractions..

[Coconut]

I haven't spoken with gg since those messages about me telling her I was intrigued by her and her asking about going out on St. Patty's day. I almost reached out to her this week, but fought my urge to reach out and decided to be patient instead, still not an easy thing for me to do.

Tuesday I went to a fishing seminar with my outdoors group, the seminar was about migratory fish that come up the rivers in my state, focusing on where/how/when to fish for them. I had never been to the Wildlife facility it was being held at, but when I put in the address to go there I realized it was right across the street from gg favorite irish pub. I thought about reaching out to her and seeing if she wanted to grab a bite to eat after the seminar but refrained. I don't know if I'm over analyzing, but I just don't get the "feeling" that she is into me, so decided that it would be better to let it be and see if she comes to me.

I don't know if I've mentioned it, but she has 3 children under the age of about 8 yrs old, they were at the first game night that I went to. Now ideally I would prefer to date someone without children, but it doesn't seem that there are many single woman in my dating age group that don't have children. Most of them have older children, most around the teen or preteen ages, which is fine to me, because if things become serious there wouldn't be that many years before the kids are older and we would be able to focus on our dreams. Anyway, I think I'd even be willing to raise a young child, but if they are that young, I think it would come with an understanding that we try and have a child. I really do enjoy raising kids, they make everything so special, seeing the world through their eyes, but if I was going to commit to having kids living at home into my 60's, I would want to have a biological child of my own. Wow, anyway, I went off on a tangent, let me get back on track.

I want to thank everyone for their responses regarding dating someone more or less than 10 yrs age difference. There were some interesting thoughts and experiences that I hadn't really considered. I think I'm just going to go with the flow. In other words, next time I meet someone I hit it off with, I'm not going to try and decide if I "should" ask them out, I'm just going to go for it. If they say yes, than we can decide how things move forward together. I'm going to remain open to all possibilities and see what works.

I'm closing on the house on Monday, so I've been and will be really busy for the next month or so. I've already rented a trailer on Sunday to load up my garage and move everything over to the new place on Monday, and took Tuesday off to get some of the repairs made that I got money back from the seller for, and i'll move more stuff. I will still have my current place until the end of April, so i'll have plenty of time, but lets face it, I just bought a house and want to get into it asap.