While my first 10 days on Match.com was anything but satisfying – suggested matches were over 80, conservative men for the most part, it turned around on June 26th. One of the many men that I indicated interest in responded to my initial message and we started a very tentative text conversation on Match.com. I was doing my best to try to make sure he was who he said you was. I was drawn to his personal message on Match when I liked him and he continued to communicate very well in writing. His Match subscription ended at midnight on July 2nd. I was pretty sure he was who he said he was at that point so we exchanged email addresses and phone numbers a couple of days later. He is a singing cowboy whose parents came from Western Kansas. He spent his summers herding cattle. He moved from Prescott AZ to Nashville 10 years ago to be in the creative music environment surrounding Nashville.
He is recovering from surgery so we have not met yet but we have shared a lot via text, email, phone and FaceTime. I am having fun with this opportunity to get to know someone “virtually” – discovering commonalities and differences and interesting coincidences. Time will tell.
Last Friday was a Supervisor on Site (SOS) only day at Habitat which means we did the work and did not need to supervise volunteers. There are my favorite days as I learn the best by doing. I learned to hang doors that are already in their frames. Important lesson. – make sure you are installing the doors in the right place because the process of moving them is not very satisfying. Fortunately, this was not my mistake and I learned a lot. The temperature was in the 80’s but so was the humidity. I managed to stay hydrated enough that I was able to go from Habitat to my standing strength training session without any problems. My Tshirt (which says Gumbo is one I got at Goodwill so I could just cut the sleeves off.) It was so wet after 4 hours that I could almost wring it out. I can’t wait to go back this Friday.
My bike is ready to ride after a new inner tube and chain. I also had them drop my handle bars down a bit which will hopefully help increase my riding efficiency. My first ride will be Thursday morning with a friend.
Tennessee law allows insurance companies to not pay Personal Liability unless the insured person is actually at fault so I will have to file for the water damage under my home owners. I am having my furniture building mentor Harry come over Wednesday to look at the damage and my floor and give me his opinion about the likelihood that sanding and refinishing the floor will look good (restore my place to the condition it was before the water damage). I think that is what Traveler’s will want to do but I am not convinced it will look OK after it is done. There is only so many ways I want to get screwed on this.
Stay tuned.
Tamara Unleashed 