A New Beginning. . . .

Meet Ernesto. . . 

He is two years older than me, from my hometown Las Vegas, and my love.

Flashback. . . 

Memorial Middle School. The age of boy crushes and I am completely into this older guy! Truth is, I see this guy at church, I know he's an athlete and that his brother is in my class. After quite some time, I ask his brother about him. He exclaims, "Are you kidding me, he's an Asshole! Trust me, you don't want anything to do with him!" He was kind of cocky, and I was Super Shy! I have to believe his brother, right? I still thought about him time to time. I moved to the Westside of town for high school after that and would only see him at church and school functions. He moved away after high school like most and I stayed in Las Vegas.

26 Years LATER. . . . 

I had been living on my own for 6 months and I was done with Online Dating.  I had two guy friends that I would go on friend dates with, and that was good for me. I made the decision to focus on tax season to figure if this was the route I wanted to take. When I wasn't at work, I was in my apartment all alone. 

My ex coerced me to let my daughter live with him for the month. *Ya know for tax season. . . More on this situation later. . .I only saw her for practice and school functions aka mom-Uber

I was talking to my friend *Sammy and she was telling me about her boss, who was also from Las Vegas. I knew my cousin *Karen worked in the same department. I told her she was crazy and his name did not ring a bell. . .  *Karen was selling me, and *Sam was selling him. We started texting. 

I remembered that a while back, about 6 years, he tried to friend me on Facebook. His user name was Storrie Lake, the lake from our hometown. All I had seen were pictures of lakes and fishing. I thought this was a stalker for sure! Well here we are again present time and this is Ernesto Chavez. I wasn't sure about this, but if *Sam and *Karen were sure about this, why not?

Full Disclosure: I had somehow managed to date a guy from the office via Online Dating and it did not work out. Picture the grown child, "serve me" type. I was over that lifestyle. I didn't leave a horrible situation to be someone else's Bitch.  In the meantime, I had been conversing with this poor Mexican dude who kept texting me for dating tips because he couldn't find a date. I'm the type that liked to "fix" more than date.  The Mexican and the Office dude were texting me randomly throughout the day. . . .  including the day of the setup.

Back to the story.....

Storrie Lake messages me on FB Messenger on Feb 5, 2019. 

E: "So I just found out you know two people I work with all day"

C: "Who?"

E: "*Karen and *Sam"

C: Spits out her afternoon coffee all over her computer: "Should I be concerned"

E" "LOL, I got lots of dirt on you!

at this point I'm thinking the Mexican dude is working with Office dude and they're in the same department!!!. OMG and he narrowed down some REAL affiliations. I began questioning him with dread

C:" Oh my goodness 

I can't wait to hear about how I came up in convo.....

I'm mortified now.

Your department is pretty small. Who else did you talk too??"

E:"LOL"

C: "Not funny"

At the same time, I'm messaging *Sam in complete HYSTERIA. "Who is this guy, OMG.

Is he a stalker, he knows where I am from..."

S: "Thats my BOSS! You should DATE HIM!!"

C: "I can't be circulating around the office, ya know!"

S: "NO, he is PERFECT for you!"

To make a long story short. Ernesto shared his busy work schedule with me, we made a coffee date for Friday, before his trip to Pagosa Springs. * you can ask details of that one later

Friday came. I went to the meetup at Steamers, near my tax office. It was a prep day, we weren't quite booming yet. I had some extra time, if needed. I went to the date hoping to drink some great coffee and have a hometown friend to hang with. . . . 

I saw HIM and all the memories of my youth rushed upon me like a waterfall. . . INCLUDING the giddiness of a teenage girl. Lord Almighty. I cracked an ear to ear smile and it did not go away. 

Quite frankly, I don't remember the conversation. I remember the smile, the eyes, the sweet pheromone filled air, the little dip on his upper lip, the HOT temp inside the restaurant  and wondering if I put on deodorant that morning. He probably thought I was a fool because I couldn't stop smiling. The time just zipped on by and somehow we managed to eat breakfast too and ask him if I had any "bats in the cave"! LOL

We left, we made plans to meet Sunday upon his return, and we kissed goodbye. Lordy Mama! That was the most electric peck on the lips I have ever had. I even sighed.

We were both had a few loose ends to tie up and they were completed within the week.

That was the beginning. . . as of today we are going on day 406. 

He's my ROCK and my soul-mate.

We've been through so much in the last year. If we make it past 2020, we will be solid. Every fairy tale has its villain, we have 2.  A healthy serving for each of us. We have 5 little dwarfs who at the mercy of these villains and Nesto and I are on the other side. Do we have the strength to save each other?? Does he have the strength to prevail??

Time will tell.

If only my daughter knew him, she would love him too.

Will that ever happen?