THE NEARD! As I was shaving my two week grown rugged beard, a friend called and said he had arrived to buy my pressure washer. Half realizing I had a neard with a John Taylor likeness, I zoomed out the door. Coming back in the house, Ariel Briscoe commented on how gnarly my neard was, telling me she had a friend who had joked about having a fantasy to braid and then shave a guy's beard. Of COURSE! I had to see who this girl was....where did that come from?!?!? This girl HAD to be interesting.
I was introduced.....via the stalker's first tool of choice.......through facebook... This neard fantasy girl happened to be on and Ariel and I had fun embarrassing with the public knowledge about their inside joke.
Chelsea Featherstone was her name. We wrote each other a few messages and talked about getting together...but it just didn't quite come together. It was likely the whole neard thing. There was just a big neard experience between us. :)
More than a month later I'd forgotten about the experience mostly when I saw Chelsea in the gym. I was impressed by how in shape she was and how intense she was working out. Pretty sure she didn't recognize me....but it was ok....When I saw her I knew I had great material for conversation. "Hey do you remember me?" She didn't look too sure. "Hmm...i might have to grow my neard out for you to remember." She laughed, but I couldn't read the girl. I wasn't sure if my charm was working or not. I talked to her a few more times there, trying my best not to look like a big tool flirting in the gym. She told me she had been there working out for two hours. I was impressed. Very impressed. She looked gooood and was so sweet, but yet I couldn't read her! I asked her if she wanted to come over for a smoothie, in previous messages we had talked about me giving her a tour of the Sig Ep house, i threw that in as well. She couldn't because she had an intermural volleyball game.....uh oh....volleyball? I said to myself this isn't going to work out if she's way into volleyball....once she finds out I know nothing about the sport.....i'm toast....but fortunately, she wasn't too obsessed with volleyball I found out later. I also didn't care too much because I'd started seeing Christina again....pretty much fooling myself into a relapse that wouldn't last long. But the excitement gave me confidence...psh...I had stuff going I didn't need to work for a lady.....but this Chelsea had me intrigued, but I played it cool and let it slide.....ah....I thought....I'll see her again i'm sure...whateva.....
Well I did! I told her at the gym if she wanted to set something up to message me her number.....she didn't......so I played it too cool for school and did nothing of course....somehow later she ended up messaging me her number and later we set up to meet at the gym.
We met there, I think she ran like ten miles while I lifted and barely broke a sweat, and we headed over to the house. I was impressed she'd go into a house full of guys after working out and not be self-conscious. I made her my favorite mango-blue raspberry smoothie. A few guys in the house drooled over her....Kurt in particular....we must have the same taste in women....or he's desperate....not sure which one, but at least he knows a beautiful girl when he sees one, as do I.
We hit it off.
Chelsea had me interested now, very interested. We were flirting like no ones business and it was flowing like honey! She was so sweet, quirky, and easy going, I was lovin' it! I was excited to get deeper, down to the nitty gritty as Nacho Libre would say. I played it cool, tried to keep it short and she went on her way.
I'm super tired! That's all for now!!!! Help me finish the story Ms. Featherstone?
I MUST write about tonight though....it was magical....Chelsea and I laid on the grass on old main and unraveled life's mysteries and our feelings for each other. Tonight the unraveling continued and Chelsea opened her heart to me in a big way. She told me about how right she felt about me. I couldn't believe how many things we shared in common. I already knew about superficial hobbies and lifestyles, but our views on relationships, family, future plans, kids, marriage, courtship, so many things were totally similar. She melted me. I am too tired to write everything haha right now but I must right a few things that struck me
My grandpa, grandma, Jim, Carol, and Bryce seemed to like her. She did great at dinner
She invited me to come to Boise for a weekend. I invited her to Washington in the near future.
She told me she wanted to support me in whatever I wanted to do, whether I failed or not. She told me she thought I was going places and that she felt this incredible trust with me.
I am really, really, really liking this Chelsea Featherstone. I'm a record keeper. I think Chelsea is a keeper. So I'm keeping track of this love story that's unfolding in my life. Am I in a dream? I am having SUCH a great time courting Chelsea Featherstone and excited to see where it goes!
-T-
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