So…update time. I’ve been chatting with a local guy… 45 years old, nice looking, tall, doesn’t drink or do drugs, has a full time stable job and puts his extra overtime money into a travel fund or RRSP’s. Divorced since 2014. No kids. No pets. No drama. He likes to fish and play hockey. He even has a timeshare in Vegas!!! What?!? It’s like I found a unicorn…lol. He is also a super respectful tester. Doesn’t disappear - tells me when he has to sign off and why. He contacts me every other day to tell me to have a great day and we chat a bit before he has to go to sleep. He’s in the middle of a marathon of graveyard shifts which ends Sunday so I think we will probably get together for coffee or something like that when he has a day off. Unless I have found another guy who wants to text forever and not actually meet. I don’t think so but you never know.
Speaking of guys who just want to text forever… I hadn’t heard from Brook for a month and then all of a sudden last night, he texts me a link to a story about a store that had burned down (an iconic ice cream store that anyone from my hometown has fond memories of) and how sad it was. I returned his text to let him know I had heard and that I agreed it was really sad. He said he hoped they would rebuild and I sent him crossed fingers emojis and left it at that. Who knows if I will hear from him again. Not worried about it as I have given up on the idea of us having anything beyond an online friendship. Don’t know why it is so scary for him to have a coffee with someone he clearly had a spark with a year ago but it is what it is. We haven’t had any face-to-face contact since then with the exception of when we ran into each other so this is definitely all about him and not a personal rejection. Not going to speculate. Clearly timing is again an issue. I’ve decided that I’m leaving the door open but not walking through it myself. That’s up to him now. If he wants to actually meet in person some day, he has my number. If I’m seeing someone else by that time, it will be his loss.
Anyway.. that’s the latest in DV Land. Going to an outside get together at the home of the couple who were supposed to be going to Croatia with me. Just me, my sister, my BIL and my kids (and the dogs too) and them and their daughter. Everyone has been vaccinated so it should be pretty safe. Only three new cases on the island yesterday. 83 active cases in a population of 1,000,000. Three people in hospital and one in critical care. 75% of the adults have had at least one shot of vaccine. It’s working!!! Gonna be a great summer!!! (((HUGS))) to all!!!
