RobbieB
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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- Mar 22, 2016
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Good for you Sous, glad to hear it. Losing my wife was the biggest pain I ever felt. It felt as if my soul was ripped. Crying and sobbing at the slightest things we used to share but alas no more. After 3 years I was doing better and thought I could watch Christmas stuff on TV again but "A Christmas Carol" reduced me to rubble. Good old Alistair Simm.
The dog got me through it. She would hear me sobbing and come in and lay her head in my lap or rub against me. Then the dog died and I was quite alone. Crap. But travel was easy now eh?, so I booked myself into the Peppermill (Reno) for 3 days of the usual debauchery. In addition to eating, drinking and hours of Texas Holdem I looked up a woman that I knew from work. She had gotten a divorce and moved to Reno and worked at a company my ex-company bought products from. We had lunch and she lit me up. I was ready, but she was not. She had a live in boy-friend. Crap again.
But it's kinda funny how stuff works out. Signed up on 2 internet dating sites and started playing again. Lotta scammers out there too, so be careful. But there are a lot of really good people too and I had a lot of needed "tune up" practice which after 30 years of marriage I really needed. My second girlfriend had 5 dogs. I really love dogs and have lived with dogs since I was 5 years old. She saw how I was with her dogs and suggested that I get another dog. Which I did. Shortly after that we broke up.
But I had a dog and she loved to go to the dog park and fetch tennis balls. Bingo, now you know "the rest of the story", met a single mom at the dog park exercising her new dog which she got after her dog died as shared custody of the child meant she was alone a lot.
Pure chaos theory. All the weird strange unconnected events that had to occur for us to meet. And she lives a mile from my house. Without dogs dying and lunch dates and internet dating that didn't work out (but really did) we would have never met.
It really is a wonderful life where strange and mystical stuff happens all the time!
The dog got me through it. She would hear me sobbing and come in and lay her head in my lap or rub against me. Then the dog died and I was quite alone. Crap. But travel was easy now eh?, so I booked myself into the Peppermill (Reno) for 3 days of the usual debauchery. In addition to eating, drinking and hours of Texas Holdem I looked up a woman that I knew from work. She had gotten a divorce and moved to Reno and worked at a company my ex-company bought products from. We had lunch and she lit me up. I was ready, but she was not. She had a live in boy-friend. Crap again.
But it's kinda funny how stuff works out. Signed up on 2 internet dating sites and started playing again. Lotta scammers out there too, so be careful. But there are a lot of really good people too and I had a lot of needed "tune up" practice which after 30 years of marriage I really needed. My second girlfriend had 5 dogs. I really love dogs and have lived with dogs since I was 5 years old. She saw how I was with her dogs and suggested that I get another dog. Which I did. Shortly after that we broke up.
But I had a dog and she loved to go to the dog park and fetch tennis balls. Bingo, now you know "the rest of the story", met a single mom at the dog park exercising her new dog which she got after her dog died as shared custody of the child meant she was alone a lot.
Pure chaos theory. All the weird strange unconnected events that had to occur for us to meet. And she lives a mile from my house. Without dogs dying and lunch dates and internet dating that didn't work out (but really did) we would have never met.
It really is a wonderful life where strange and mystical stuff happens all the time!