#life

Sunday after SWINGCON

Hiya, Elise!!!

Huh... I've gotten back home but it's feeling sort of... large and lonely and... I don't know. I feel UNSETTLED! Thankfully, the Hubs is getting back tomorrow so there won't be too much more of this! Will be glad to have a while with him before MEGADATE... because I'm going to have to arrange for a couple days of travel to & from Portland.

Anyhoodles, have been reading through your dispatches from YOGADATE with interest (how did you manage to SMUGGLE IN your computer... and do you have a SAT PHONE or something to allow you to connect????). But... KATE is leaving me more than a little... DISTURBED. Sure, she was FANGIRLING LIKE A TWEENIE about Noah while she was there in Cali with him, but judging from her "connection" with her "friend" Chuck overnight, I didn't think there were any real... dangers for her. (SOOOOOO easy to have your head turned by a CELEBRITY -- I remember when I went to one of the BACKSTREET BOYS concerts in my FANGIRLING DAYS, and NICK CARTER (!!!!!) threw a towel he'd used to wipe his sweat into the audience -- AND I CAUGHT IT!!!!!!!! I KNEW at the bottom of my 13-year-old heart that he was DESTINED TO MARRY ME and spent the next several years of my life trying to figure out how it was going to happen... All of that to say... I GET IT!!!! We should DEFS keep an eye on her. Although, I kinda wonder if she was just trying to FREAK YOU OUT????!?) I did check in with Noah to see if, in HIS OWN OPINION, he had made any "special connections" on his dates so far. He sounded puzzled and then told me gamely, "Well, the little girl was cute. Glad I got to meet her -- she's started a new CHASE PORTER fan club in a part of the South that I hadn't made much TRACTION with until now... But most of the #life matches are KINDA OLD, don't'cha think???"

SIGH. So I'm pretty sure that, from his angle, there was no "special connection" to Kate. Let me know if you think we need to warn her -- or him!!!!

Speaking of disturbing, remember how a while back I told you I got a weird text from a blocked number? The first one said "i know where U live" and I thought it was weird, but whatevs, probably just a wrong number or something. SO NOT TRUE. I've been getting more of them over the course of the week/weekend during the dates. Stuff like "U looked pretty in slc airport" (STUPID CAMERAMAN!!!) and "how do u like california" when I was organizing FANDATE. But this morning I got one saying "home again. maybe i will visit U" which was SUPER-CREEPY and I decided that I wasn't going to stay in the house alone tonight. Have called one of my BESTIES to beg to CRASH ON HER COUCH, until the Hubster is back tomorrow. (Actually HIS IDEA and I'm glad he thought about it. SRSLY, Elise, having a creeper after you does WONDERS for a guy's attention. Might just be COMPETITION FOR THE PRIZE, though... kinda like all your yoga dates and Kate, eh????)

I've been thinking through our matches... looking forward to what we can tell from the LILIES this week!!!! Because I'd like to be able to focus on MEGADATE, although I'm starting to think that if there is time beforehand, we might want to match up Brianna with someone (IDEAS???? I was thinking Tariq but then I realized that he probably wouldn't strike her family as "apple pie". And I think his name might be shared by some of the guys her ex-boyfriend (the terrorist) knew... so maybe not the best idea???). Also, it's been AGES since we've heard or seen from our first couples, Lila & Ted and Jay & Violet (although I have seen Lila's active presence on the web... have you noticed that Ted's expression is starting to look a little strained in the last few "Cuddling with the Pugs" vlogs that she's uploaded? Didn't think the guy would look a gift horse in the mouth, but... Hmmm.)

I did reach out to Violet and Jay... he, boy-like, never did text me back, but Violet called me and we had a nice little convo over Skype!!

"I never did thank you for the makeover," she said softly (SRSLY, that girl has got to SPEAK UP -- it's hard to understand her, ESPECIALLY when she's looking down at her knitting!!!)

"I couldn't help myself," I told her, "I could SEE the potential in you and JUST HAD TO TRY IT. I am sorry that it was traumatic for you, though." (Kinda. Haha. Actually NOT REALLY but WHATEVS)

She shrugged slightly, and I noticed that, under the fuzzy pile of mohair she was working on, there was SOMETHING TWEE BEING WORN.

"VIOLET!!!" I shrieked, "Did you go out and buy yourself a new wardrobe???!?!!!?"

She blushed, but then straightened up in her seat and modeled her turquoise dress -- it matched her eyes -- toward the camera. "D'you like it?" she finally asked, breathlessly. "My cousin said it was pretty but it seemed a little..."

"It's GORGIE!!!" I cried, figuring she could use some enthusiasm. After all, it's got to be kind of a slog, working in an office like she does with all those old ladies.

"So have you heard from Jay recently?" I asked, leaning forward into the camera conspiratorially.

She blushed again, a little smile playing over her lips. "Actually, ah, he's here this weekend."

"What!?!" (This was for-reals shock, Elise -- I wasn't exactly expecting her to move quite so fast. But then, it IS Jay...)

"He didn't want to wait until the big group date -- said we wouldn't have a chance to be alone, so I told him, sure, come on out."

"How's it going? Where is he?"

In the doorway I could sorta see behind Violet in the screen, a sheepish-looking Jay emerged, partially. Well, he leaned out and waved, then pointed to his mouth and his other hand, which was holding an enormous cheesesteak sandwich. Then he leaned back out of frame.

"Oooo-OOOO-oooh," I said. "I get it. Well, then, don't let me keep you from your lunch -- I didn't realize you had company. Just wanted to check in and see how things are going."

So, Elise, that Love Connection is still going strong. Moving a little fast -- maybe we can lever the heartbreak angle, after all... although.... I'm not so sure that Noah (bless his fame-hungry little heart) is really the person to set her up with, now that we know he's CHASE PORTER, TWEENIE SENSATION. Is there anyone else among the matches who'd be relevant??!?!??!!!

And now that I think of it, who knows if I got an accurate read on Jay at all. What little I saw of him there in the background was normal-guy, jeans and t-shirt, no leather, studs, tats or piercings to be seen. (Although he was blurry and far enough away from the webcam that I can't be sure.)

Seriously, all these dates have been enough to kinda confuse me. No one acts the way I expect them to. Weird. I betcha that professional matchmakers have to do a LOT of LEARNING to be any good at it. 

Oh hey -- I almost forgot! Have you heard any more from Simone and Igor???? Inquiring minds what to know!!?!??!!! That's a TOTES fascinating situation and you kinda had to DROP EVERYTHING and deal with YOGADATE instead of following up with them...

OH YEAH -- almost forgot!!! This happened in the middle of coordinating trips to the airport, so it didn't come to mind immediately, but I heard from Dixie yesterday!!! She thanked me (she really does have the CUTEST little accent, doesn't she?) for introducing her to Zackary and told me that he was "as cute as a bug's ear" (which I assume is a good thing?) and that she and he have been texting each other ever since FANDATE and that they're planning to meet up at the airport a little early for MEGADATE, so that they can at least spend an hour or so alone together (ShyAnn is staying with her "Mimi" (Grandma, I assume? Southernisms are strange.) for the duration, so Dixie will have a little more time and energy for the DATING.

Righty-ho, I should be signing off and out of here... got a FROYO DATE with MY BESTIES lined up!!! I've missed our GNOs (girls nights out) together for the past couple weeks, bc I've been so busy with DATING!!! Haha, makes it sound like I need a second Mr. Lindzi for my HAREM!!!!

Hope you're recovering from your not-so-restful yoga retreat, and that you and Ryan -- and the lizard? -- patch things up once he's back in HIS OWN TERRITORY. (I TOTES GET IT. The Hubster practically RUNS out to the garage to check on his POWER TOOLS any time we spend more than a day away... as though he thinks that someone's going to break in, beeline to the GARAGE, and HAUL OUT a whole bunch of CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT!!!!)

XOXOXOXOXOXOX,

Lindzi