Weathering the Storm

[Coconut]

Its been awhile since I’ve added to my story, I’ve been keeping up here occasionally, but I haven’t had much to say about where I am. Mostly I just live my life, I have been dating but haven’t met anyone worth mentioning, not dating anyone I see as a possible long term R.. I am sexually active (fwb situation), but we are open and honest with each other (as best as I can tell), she knows I’m looking for LTR and she isn’t ready to commit, but I haven’t changed my stance of not sleeping with more than one person at a time.. anyway, I saw someone on OLD today that really caught my attention today. She is a bit younger than me, by about 8 yrs (she’s 38 and I’m 46), but what she said in her profile is what I’ve been looking for. She’s country at heart, into the outdoors, isn’t afraid to bait her own hook, enjoys being out in the woods, on the water and just generally enjoys the outdoors. She stated she wanted more than a hillbilly, likes someone who is intelligent and is educated.

I’m back here because I want to ask for advice, I reached out to her in a completely different way than my norm. I’m always honest with woman nowadays, good or bad, but I don’t tend to show my emotional side. I tend to keep it short and to the point, not wanting to lead them on, but I indulged with her. I’m concerned that I may have presented a side of me that doesn’t portray me completely, and may give her an impression that I’m more “beta” (for lack of a better term) than I am in R’s. Anyway, here is what I reached out to her with, I was going for humor, but worried it may be taken the wrong way. What say you?

I don’t have many people come across my OLD profile that I feel are worth reaching out to, but I saw one today who really caught my attention. I decided I want to really try and get her attention so I wrote the following and wondering what y’all ladies think. Did I say too much?

Keep in mind, she stated in her profile that she likes humor and she likes someone who has something to say, to use your words, so I went all out.
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I’ve been told I sometimes say too much, one person even told me I wrote a book in response to a question that was asked; but you asked me to use my words, so I shall indulge your request. I’m a pretty normal guy, although my young niece recently told me I was not normal because my second toe is slightly longer than my big toe and hers isn’t.. I just told her I like the way my feet look and I’m ok with embracing my uniqueness.

I like to live life, I moved here from Ft. Lauderdale to get away from urban sprawl and gain access to the great outdoors, I have taken full advantage of it and really feel alive. While i clean up well and am comfortable spending a night out on the town rooftop dining overlooking the city, I’d prefer taking a dirt road to the lake, picnic on the shore after a swim, dance in the glow of the headlights after sunset and end the night in the back of the truck looking at the stars. One of my current goals is finding a clear dark night sky so I can get a clear view of the Milky Way, I was able to get a glimpse of it a few weeks ago while camping in the mountains near Boone, but the sky wasn’t quite clear enough to really see it in whole, just the brighter parts of it. Hopefully the next new moon will give me the opportunity.

I don’t consider myself old, definitely don’t live that way, but I recently realized that I’m older than google, that hit me pretty hard. I mean, google seems like it’s been around forever.

Hopefully at worst you’ll find this a little entertaining and you’ll get a smile out of it even if you’re not interested. At best, you’ll realize I’m educated enough to use the proper forms of you, your and you’re; to, two and too and you have lowered your (not you’re) standards enough to find that alone attractive and want to write me back.

This is by far the most I’ve ever written for first contact, but I enjoyed writing it, thank you for challenging me.

Have a wonderful day,

Donnie