swing for life

With a kiss on first one cheek then the other, she says good bye to her friend. Then a repeat of course, the same kiss for her husband. Until tomorrow they are telling her, as they leave her on her door step. The French couple she would dance with for the next year have such a lovely way of saying good bye, first a kiss on one cheek then the other.

Laurie closes the door to her room and decides she needs to make a few changes. She would go into the dating free website link her girlfriend had sent her days ago, tonight. Dancing around the house she decided if she finally found the one, who cared how she found him.

A husband and then a family were on her list of goals. Well the two year plan, anyway. A lot to ask for but she was still young. As her dance legs took her into the kitchen, why not go where the men are she thought. Mom was due to call in a little while, and then on to the evening’s findings she thought. What would this new venture bring her, she was excited to begin. Sure enough, by 8 her mom calls. They talk for about an hour before she realizes what time it is. she says love and miss you and with a kiss and hug promise to call back soon, she is off the phone and getting her shower.

Clicking the link found in the email from Sandy she is off into a very different and new world. A husband finding mission was underway. The on-line dating website’s have been something she had avoided, but now she had heard plenty from her girlfriends and decided it was worth a try; after all what can it hurt, right?

Registering took just a few minutes. Now to find a place to sit back, relax and watch a few chat rooms. Get her feet wet so to speak…

This chat dialog is a lot to take in at first. Laurie thinks she needs a decoder book to figure out what all of this dialog means. Finally another newbie starts to ask what she has been dying to know; and as each answer rolls across the screen it’s begins to dawn on her. This isn’t going to be as easy as she had thought.

She has traveled all over the world with the dance theater, and it wasn’t going to help her at all to understand this new media. Getting in a good rehearsal the next morning would require some sleep. She doesn’t say anything this night, just signs off and a promise to herself to say something next time get to sleep early.