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Texting, texting, texting, and more texting. We text each other almost everyday. We still haven't met face to face yet. How long does this go on I wonder. Dating in the twenty first century is strange. I realize this is the computer age but I think I prefer the old fashion way of dating. Face to face instead of screen to screen. You can just imagine people as they creep and slouch behind there computer screens waiting for a less than exciting inaudible form of dating.

You know I do not give out real names on my blog; however, I have called him Pumpkin Head a few times so for reasons beyond common sense, I will continue to refer to him as such.

As many of you know, I volunteer at the homeless shelter painting murals. Last night I was there painting, and texting Pumpkin Head wouldn't you know it, I dropped my phone into the paint. Blue paint all over my phone. Luckily it fell into a paint tray and not into a paint bucket. Man that sucks. I've only had that phone a couple of months, a camera phone. Thing is, I still don't know how to use the camera part of it. I got most of the paint off but I couldn't get it out of all of the crevices. I couldn't mention it to the sisters because they already were giving me a hard time about being on the phone while I was there. One of them asked me to finish one of the walls I was working on before I left because I wouldn't be there today. The more I text with pumpkin Head, the less painting I got done. I was there until nine at night.

I asked him when we are going to meet he said "soon". Great, that really clears it up for me. In our conversation we shared a few bad date experiences each of us have had. I am glad I am not the only one suffering in this expansive, headless monster of dating in the bowels of the computer age. I just thought it was my old age and lack of computer savvy. He promises me he wont be a bad date but we will see. I am sure that most of the bad, terrible, horrible, mortifying dates I have had probably think they are good dates. He seems fun so far. I asked him if he was this funny in person or if he was more like a vegetable. He said he is always a 'veggie', I think that is how I began calling him pumpkin Head.