Preliminary screening.

I took my first two istallments to the craft fair and let 2 people read it.  The church secretary got through the first paragraph and decided she was way to tired to try reading.  Diane read it and thought it was great and is ready for the third installment.  I did have a friend who read it earlier tell me that my writing is "honest and earthy".  I was flattered beyond beleif by that statement because it came from a very wise man.
So, kids, be sure and check in here tomorrow.  I am thinking that I will get started on this and then pick up the pace, but who knows.  My brain may go completely blank and then where will we be?  Worst case scenario is this fizzles and fails.  Would not be my first rodeo so to speak.
See you tomorrow!

Well, I think I am about ready here.

I now have the first two installments ready and here is the plan.  I will publish one installment every 3 days.  This is going to be an adventure for all of us.  Now we all know that this site is pure fiction, but like life imitating art or vice versa, so there is some truth in fiction.  I will not tell you which parts are truth and which are pure imagination, but do know that both are going to come into play here at Chapter One.
I named this site Chapter One because I think it will be  a whole new beginning in my literary endeavors.  You know my Words of Wisdom are the truth as I see it.  By being truth I am limited by the boundaries of that truth.  But here in Chapter One I will be limited only by my imagination.  Now I never was one to remember the lies I told so when I write this little tale and you see that Meg was 55 years old on page one and 30 pages later she is 40 with a 35 year old son, just take that with a grain of salt.  I wrote all this stuff down before I started writing, but in typical Lou Mercer fashion I filed it away and hopefully I will remember where some day. 
In my world time is irrelevant.  Places are irrelevant.  The only things that really matter are emotions and eating.  Stuff like that and not necessarily in that order.  I have read a lot of Jackie Collins, so there may be some romance.  I worship Jean Auel and her Clan of the Cave Bear series so there may be a lot of herbs and homeopathic cures, or not.  And I fell on my knees at the feet of Steven King so the ending may surprise you.  But I do not want to give away my trade secrets here at 4:38 in the morning so I am just going to tell you to add me to your favorite blogs so you will be notified and look for my first rendering here in three days, which will be Monday, November 7.
And hang on; it is going to be a bumpy ride!

Is any one buying any of this stuff?

When I started this blog I had high hopes that it would be a lot of fun.  First we had Delilah who was an actual person and doing the actual dating online stuff.  First she got real busy with the dating thing, then she fell in love and who knows what ever became of that mess.
Then I thought perhaps I would do the dating thing, but I just am not into that sort of thing.  Man at my age I just want to try to not break a hip and wind up in a nursing home.  So does anyone out there have any ideas on what to do with this site?  I would be open to any suggestions.  I am thinking that I would like to start doing an opinion page like when I go to the feed store and the entire transaction is done without them ever making eye contact or having to actually speak to me.  In my opinion that is just rude.
Or maybe it is just me.
So maybe someone out there would like to tell me their dating online experiences.  I hardly see how I can flip Delilah's Dating Dilemma into a personal opinion thing.  If I change the name then it becomes a new blog.  I already have 3 blogs and no time.
So let's do this.  If you have any ideas on how to keep DDD a viable blog please email me.  I will copy and paste your email on here.  Maybe you have dated online.  Tell me your experience.  I do like honesty in my readers and my posters.  Yeah, do that.  I will not use your name and only you will know you wrote it.  Unless of course you want me to use your idenity.  In that case please state that very clearly.
So I will wait to hear from someone before I close this out.  this is my email address.  Please put DDD in the subject line because some times strange emails end up in the Spam folder and I will need to dig them out.  I am getting all a twitter here thinking I may hear from some one.
loumercer3@aol.com

I talked to Delilah and guess what!!

Finally after all these months I have spoken to the wayward little waif, Delilah.  Seems she is now in an "exclusive relationship" with a fellow named Danny who lives right outside Kansas City on the Missouri side.  I told her how pleased I was with the way she kept everything so secret.  Anyway, I am planning on going to Kansas City the middle of September so I am going to get to meet the little fellow.  Not so little, I hear. 

She is not sharing a whole lot on this one.  Oh, Lordy!  What if this really is the love of her life?  Guess that would be alright.  I just did not think I would live long enough to see this happen.  She was always such an independent woman and now she is all gushy.  Hope that does not happen to me.

And back to my search.  I do not think my quest is going well at all.  I tend to be a bit cynical when I do get on there to cast about for a possible date.  Now you do realize that I am looking in the over 65 bracket.  Apparently the geriatric unit is in pretty good shape if the roster on this online dating site is any indication.  They are all in very good shape, flat stomach, love to dance, hike in the mountains, long evenings in front of the fire, church on Sunday, fine dining or a hamburger will do, and the plumbing still works.  What ever that means.

I did find one that sort of piqued my interest.  Retired businessman from Denver, now living in Pueblo.  Financially secure.  Looking for an independent woman, weight to hieght ratio should be normal, be able to carry her own suitcase.  Well, ok, a few pounds extra would be alright and he might help with the suitcase if need be.  Sounded like the guy might have a sense of humor. 6'3".  That was in the range.  Whoops, a Catholic!  Red flag there.  But he was divorced so he must not be a very good Catholic.  No kids.  Hmmm.  Why?  Oh maybe he had them but since they did not live with him he put zero.  Well, a cup of coffee.  What could that hurt.  So I hit the interested button and went to bed.

Off to Beulah and coffee with Allan.

OK, you would have been so proud of me!  I showered and dressed for this little venture with a tad bit more care than I usually display.  Wore my black, clingy culottes and a white tee with a vee neck.  Now, let me refresh you on this coffee date.  Allan is a retired engineer who lives up in Beulah.  He is short at 5'5", but that is alright cause he likes to hike in the mountains, so I am sure he is fit.  So, off I went for my little adventure. 

I arrived a little early, because that is what I do.  I am always early and if I am not early it is because I forgot and will not be there!  So the Stompin' Grounds was empty when I got there.  Course Jan was all excited to see me.  And always one to kill two birds with one stone, I had brought a supply of Lotions to replenish my display that she keeps there to  sell.

So I was explaining about the online dating thing and she reminded me of my two previous men friends I had brought to meet her.  First was the big tall 6'2" over bearing Cossack.  I dated him a few months, but that is history.  Then there was the 6 foot widower who wanted nothing more than to take care of me.  Well, anyone who knows me knows who takes care of me!  I have it painted on a plank on my deck "Love Many, Trust Few.  Always paddle your own canoe!"

Ok, I had talked to this yahoo twice in the past week and we had made this date for 10:00 AM on Monday.  It was now 10:10 and no signs of Mr. Engineer.  Ok, give him a few.  Never mind that tardiness ranks right up there with slovenliness with me.  Finally at almost 10:45 the door opened and in walked Allan.  Had I not been so pissed by this time, I might have cut the boy some slack.  After all he was very compatible on paper.  Retired engineer who free lances in Denver.  Lives in my favorite mountain town in the whole world.  Financially secure.  Sorry, but the being late thing is just inconsiderate.  And had he given me a good reason, but he just blew it off like it was not important. 

So, his receding hairline went from receding to gone to hell.  Shiny pate!  Little bit heavy went to obese.  Scruffy little fellow went to down right unkempt!  And I think he stretched that 5'5" cause he sure looked little when I first saw him.  I remained seated so he would feel tall.  The fact that he was 10 years younger suddenly became very important and not in his favor at all.  And when he smiled I was lost.  Those were the most ill fitting dentures I have ever seen!  I thought they were  in upside down.  I actually felt sorry for him in that moment.  I knew this was one of those "get the hell out of here moments".  But he was a human being after all and I did not want to scar him for the next woman. 

In my defense I was my usual charming self.  He was fascinated with my candor and humor.  The slinky culottes and and the vee neck also held his attention.  I explained to him that I was a busy woman and his time slot had been spent with my waiting for him to show up.  Then I apologized that I had to cut our visit short but I had an appointment with the Doctor in the Springs because I was having brain surgery on Friday since the medication was no longer controlling my "problem".  I did tell him I would call him next week if I survived.  He seemed content with that.  He walked me to my care, I toodles the fingers at him and drove off into the sunset. 

So that was my first encounter.  In a couple days I will begin searching again.  Perhaps I can find someone in the Libra thing on the Astology chart.  You don't think I am too picky do you?  I sure hope not.  If it was not for this lobotomy lurking on the horizon I would actually call him, maybe.

Oh, here is my new theme song!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbwSeiWrLnU&feature=related

Finally got around to calling.

Ok, I did the block my number thing and dialed the fellow up Sunday afternoon.  Has a very nice voice.  I told him of my Beulah connections and he "knew of"  both of them, so at least he is aware of his surroundings.  That is a plus.  He does not "get out much", which rather throws up a red flag in my mind.  How could anyone live in Beulah and not get out much?  Why live there just to stay home?  He has no pets, but that is not unusual in mountain towns since bears and cougars and such will eat them.  I could not connect in my mind just where his home is located, but I got the general idea. 

His name is Allan and he is only 60 years old.  He is a retired engineer, but does do a little work from time to time for several different companies in Denver. 

After a little more chit chat I told him I would be in Beulah probably next week and would meet him for coffee at the Stompin Grouds, if he was not busy.  I did give him my hot mail address and told him I would call him in a few days.  Then I rang off.  No sense appearing eager.

Now, you should know that back on the dating site, my in box is filling up.  I am going to need to take a little time and go through that.  I have several winks and flirts, which I have decided to completely ignore those.  I will just go for the interested ones.  Never did like the flirty part of the dating games.  Now, I do not have time for this stuff every day, so I will get in there later this week and sort it out.

Right now I have nickle auctions on eBay, so I will tend to that.

Have a good one.