procrastination…. procrastination…
(to the tune of Carly Simon’s Anticipation)….
Yep. It was a rough day today. Why -one wonders? Let’s see, I started . (nuf said), I procrastinated with my reports and only managed to get one done today. I have two more to write tomorrow and no one is on the rotation except me so I get the next Emergency call at work - I just got one on Monday that I’m writing a report for tomorrow! That really sucks. I have to stay at work until 7pm to deal with that disaster that broke me last week….. and finally ‘the cop’ surfaces again. (see paragraph labeled COP if interested - I also decided to italicize the entire juvenile mess so one could easily skip the bullshit)
Food was ok, ate 3 things by 2:30 and drank tea till I went home at 5:30. I get home and what do I find but one of my gallon water things is leaking. So that needs to be cleaned up which takes a lot of shifting things around when I’m starving. I manage to get down some Shirataki noodles with leftover sukiyaki stuff from a few nights ago. It was acceptable. Now I sit here sipping a shake. I’m skippin the last meal - I may have had too many veggies in my last meal. Wow. The restrictions are serious here folks…..
My brother started Nutrisystem today. I am so proud of him. He easily weighs 300 pounds. He called me twice and he’s feeling alright. I am very encouraging to him. I want my brother to be happy. So I’ve decided I’ll check in with him once a day to give him support.
.COP.
Ok, the cop. I’m only talkin about this because this is the closest I’ve come to the type of man that I want in my life. Mind you I’ve been on a draught for the past 3 years and 9 months. So proceed if you dare…. (yes, my business is back on the street, courtesy of me - yet again!)
Briefly, all of us girls are comin back from lunch one day and we pull into the parking lot. This amazing buff cop (bicycle patrol) is stopped in the lot. Immediately my wild friend starts to hail him down to talk to him. She grills him a bit and we find that he is single. She then initiates an exchange of phone numbers between him and me. I figure I’ll never hear from him because she was so incredibly bold and obnoxious. Plus - I am a large girl - who wants that?Amazingly, he calls me later that evening and we talk for a few minutes. Wild girl tells me to invite him out for drinks with her, her husband and one of the co-workers and her boyfriend. So I figure it’s harmless and he agrees to come out. He shows up and my goodness, he is absolutely gorgeous. He’s also well educated (Morehouse), wants to settle down and owns property. I feel like I won the MAN lotto at this point, but I’m cool. I smile a lot and we talk some more and he appears to be very attentive, interested in me etc…. I hug him goodnight and tell him I had a great time. * I don’t kiss easily - I’ve grown shy in my old age *
I heard nothing for a week. I was bummed. I knew it was a crazy pipe dream, me being a big girl. He would have to be a REAL man to appreciate me through the padding. Then one day a week later out of the blue, I get a text message asking me if I’m at work. Unfortunately, I was sheltering a child and let him know. I was hoping he would call me later on that day, but no - NOTHING again.
My wild friend left for her honeymoon the day after the get together with him and comes back from the trip. Eagerly, she asks me how things went. I tell her and without telling me anything, she contacts him! She tells me about this three days later. Needless to say I am totally humiliated and hear that he sensed that I was looking for a long term relationship and didn’t want to ’start something that I couldn’t finish.’ Ok, that said, I get a text from him again and I call him to apologize for my friend’s action. He says that it’s ok and I tell him we should probably talk about it at some point. He agrees, but I don’t hear from him. With that, I heard that he came by a few times to see me the following week, but I wasn’t around.
Then today - out of the blue again, the other friend told me that she saw him (he works on patrol in the neighborhood) and he gave her my number asking me to contact him. She tells me that he doesn’t care for Wild Girl (she can be very outrageous/loud/inappropriate at times) and would like to speak to me away from her, therefore he never comes by anymore.
He apparently finds me very attractive, but again, is caught up in traveling (for work - he does the weekend warrior military thing), family etc…
I figure that if a man is really interested, he’ll call you himself. WTF? Messages through people - at our age it’s fuckin’ ridiculous. I’m not about to call his inconsistent ‘too busy with life’ ass. No matter how fine he is - and ladies he is most definately THAT fine! It’s too bad that it couldn’t really work out…. he has all the qualities (well from what I could tell in the course of 3 hours) that I’m looking for - well except for his inability to be attracted ENOUGH to get to know me?! Ok, fuck that…..
So hell, I put his number in my rolodex at work - because who knows - If I can’t get my groove on with someone I dig by my birthday… I may just give him a tumble. Gosh, that man is DEFINATELY fine…. make you talk about his ass 3 months later and wanna have his babies kinda fine…. you know what I’m talkin’ bout…..
I just had to share that story because it just doesn’t seem to go away. Wildchild got married in March. It’s now JUNE!
Ooops interruption…
The salesman just called - gotta give him credit… at least he calls! He wants to go out next week and continue calling me so that he ’stays on my radar’. Let’s hope there’s chemistry folks… or maybe let’s hope NOT since he doesn’t seem to have a stable job?
I’m not in a rush. I’ve been alone for nearly 4 years now. DAMN - that’s a long ass time….
Fuck it -
I’m just tryin to ‘do me’ right now
I had a guy tell me one time that if I guy really wants to see you, he will FEDEX himself to you to make sure you know he was interested. I always love a man’s perspective on other men.
Keep doing yourself right…