Larger Little Gifts

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I should be posting my final part to my Untapped Worlds series because it is three-quarters finished. But to me this quick post takes more precedence.

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There’s a cliché, an adage that says “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.” Life has firmly taught me that this cliché is not a very wise outlook. In fact, the better outlook is “Damn well better look in the horses’ mouth! In fact, take it to the nearest orthodontist and get full x-rays and cleanings because some or many of those teeth and gums could be wooden, abscessed, and outright dentures or implants! While at it take it to the best veterinarian too!” Hah!

And then there are those rare moments like I had late last night when the one thing I THOUGHT wouldn’t couldn’t happen, happened. Actually it was two Larger Little Gifts.

The first gift was a voicemail from a job position I had applied for many weeks ago with the local VA in association with the state hospital. I am extremely qualified for this Nurses Assistant opening AND have all the necessary background to be superb at it. In fact, I’m overqualified given my background and work-experience. The REAL position I want is helping families of veterans with PTSD and other psychological issues and their dynamics within families of returned, wounded or otherwise, veterans. I am just a semester or two away from completing my Masters degree from 1991 in psychology, addiction, and counseling/therapy. This is all that stands in the way of an approved state license and better pay (relatively speaking) than continuing as a Special Ed teacher in Texas. This voicemail made me jump up and down pumping my fist hard as if I just saved a shot to the upper-90 in the dying injury/extra minutes of the World Cup Final to preserve our win! I’m not sure even that fully describes my elation. If I get an actual face-to-face interview(?), I am SO in. 😀

Laughing coupleThe second but easily the larger little gift was from a long-time online-dating interest who I had thought wasn’t real. In fact, many profiles on most all ‘dating sites’ are fake; fake pictures, no pictures at all, short cookie-cutter self-descriptions and their “criteria” for a dream partner/spouse. Then there are the marketing methods to keep you on the website without actually ever talking live or meeting anyone, i.e. contact-info-forbidden instructions and restrictions. This method gets more money out of you. If someone does chat with you, many fake profiles try to bait-you over to their website they’ve been paid a fee to ‘recruit’ you away. The 5-6 dating-sites I’ve been a past member, these business and ‘member’ practices are to be expected — afterall, “love” is a multi-million dollar growing business. Cha-ching!

But this one woman’s profile was different, very different. Yes she had some 5-7 very recent photos AND unique clever descriptions I’ve never read in my 13-years of online-dating sites! She was extraordinary! No, check that; my first impression was “way too good to be true.” Wow, was I wrong.

When she eventually responded to my interests and my introductory email, I knew instantly by the way she wrote… “This was a winner.” After only 4-5 HILARIOUS email exchanges thru the site… we were both begging each other to get on the phone together. When we did, after only 5-10 minutes I knew instantly in my 36-years of dating, relationships, and two marriages/divorces… this one is like no other, hands down.

We talked EASILY near 3-hours as if we’d come from the same families, areas, travels, and values. Damn near identical. She wanted to know much more about me and I her. She got it; everything, no holes barred from me because she was sick-n-tired of the artificial B.S. on many dating websites — hit repeat. Twice she told me to lay it on, all of it, and followed with ‘dear God this is so refreshing!‘ We both laughed knowing we both understood; like identical twins we got it. We’ve both lived it so long. No full locked-up closets between us! She cleaned house on me! It was SPECTACULAR! I was so freaking giddy last night I couldn’t sleep fast enough to shoot a little text-message this morning how much I thoroughly enjoyed our too brief 3-hour talk! HAH! I wasn’t quick enough!

At 7:40am I get a text-message from her. Want to know what she told me?

Bwahahaha! Right. It’s none of your business! But stay tuned if you like. This journey/story is guaranteed to be a great ride!

Score a point for the VA. Ding. Score game-winner for serendipitous surprises! 🙂

Live Well — Love Much — Laugh Often — Learn Always

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35 thoughts on “Larger Little Gifts”

  2. All sorts of great news here, and it’s just wonderful to hear such happiness jump out with your words. I hope that the great relationship ride continues! Giddy on and Giddy up my friend! 🙂 I’ll get to your intellectual stuff later! 🙂

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    • Thanks Swarn! I’ve never been one to believe in “fairy-tales”, especially after what I’ve seen in 25-36 years. By the time one gets to my age and battle-scars(?) you already know quick what will work, work-well, or work exceptionally well. This was a no-brainer. 😉

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    • Serendipitious it was Hariod. Do not worry though. When I’m sure of something, when I not just know it but it resonates deep stirring that ‘sleeping beast’… I’ve learned too many times that to keep it caged would not be true to self, nor anyone else. Abandon. Abandon the fears that suffocate life and passion, that suppress the eternal youth within…and “Come What May!”

      “I hold it true, whate’er befall;
      I feel it when I sorrow most;
      ‘Tis better to have loved and lost
      Than never to have loved at all.”
      —- Alfred Lord Tennyson

      Yes! And so ‘love, love, love with all!‘ Irony makes it all more exciting so let the cards fall where they may! Destination? Who knows, this is still worth it.
      (enter the Ringmaster)…

      Lady’s and Gentleman! Boys and girls!
      Welcome. Come in…
      Your Joyride is here!       😀

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    • As of right now betunada I am not — still in the 2nd application phase. As you may well know, government agencies and institutions are not known for speed. (wink)

      Thank you for coming by! How are things around your corner of Colorado? I see that you are also a fan of RAS Jacobson’s blog too. Please feel free to stop in anytime and share your thoughts.

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      • gov’t agencies? i should (scribbles on a memo-sticky) write a post about a CURSE my very own father pronounced on me when I was (successfully, i might add) getting a “psycho” deferment from the US Military draft during the height/depth of Vietnam. he, purple-heart distinguished Army (WW2) veteran, believed that anyone shirking military service would have their name IN THE SYSTEM as being not only un-employable, “you will never be able to work for the government!” he thundered.

        years later, after having been ONLY ABLE to work for the “government” *, i still felt i had never been able to get “a good job.” i would remind him of his “curse” and we’d laugh and drink more beer.

        *County assessor’s office: appraiser
        *forest fire fighter, out of local Sheriff’s office
        *U.S. P. S. (back when it was direct U.S. owned and operated)
        *temporary labor and truck driver for State University
        *State Oil & Gas Commission, engineer and inspector
        *State Transportation Department
        *subcontract technical support, U S Dept. of Energy
        *and others I mercifully can’t right-off hand remember

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