Who is Punky?
I'll tell you a little about Punky, since I've brought him up a few times now. He's my significant other... we're in a long distance relationship. I don't mean long distance like new york city and philly. I mean long distance like pennsylvania and new mexico. how did we meet? he was stalking me. ha -i'm kidding.
Umm, about a year ago I was looking at my life and the guys i was dating and i decided i needed to at least give church guys a chance. so i signed up on a church dating site... no luck at all. there were some cuties on there - but nothing to bring home to momma. plus, most of the guys writing me were foreign or old enough to be my dad, or didn't speak good english, or i didn't have it in me to just be nice. I wasn't mean, i just wasn't interested. So one day in january I get a note that "Michelangelo" has sent me a smile. and i'm like what the heck is this... "michelangelo"... pssshhhht. probably some old guy with a dream deferred... ha. who does he think he is? And i went to the page....
And saw THIS:
OH! that's who he thinks he is... and yes...
i think i would like to think who he is too!
HOLLA!
he's cute!!!!
Geesh.
wow. this is a first.
But then I look at his profile... he's 5'10... i'm 5'9... i generally like my guys taller. 6' and up... He's Latino... me gusta mucho. He's 29... and hi, I'm an age-ist. I'd barely turned 24 and he was pushin it for my age requirements... 2-3 year difference!!! 4 years MAX!!! but I learned from a really good guy that age is what you make it. So i said ok... it's not TOO bad. But then, DUN DUN DUNNNNN, he's in new mexico.
so close! but no bubble gum cigarrette.
so i'm like ugh - new mexico, whatever... that is TOO far away and unless the lord is going to give me frequent flyer miles - there is no way anything will happen... BUT... it's always nice to have a friend... and a nice looking friend that's nice to look at and think about being nice to. Besides, what are the odds that I'd find a fly church boy to hook up with? pshaw.
yeah, well - the lord was eavesdropping when i said that. but for real, i had no intentions of really sweatin the boy - i'd originally joined the singles site to try and find more singles in the area for activities at church. No dice. And so i'd go back every couple of days and look at his pictures... and he's still really cute. the smirk on his face accentuated his dimples... and he had the JC facial hair thing going on... and the dark hair and GREEN (hello!!!!) eyes... AND Latino? Dios me bendiga... but nah... he's too far away. Neeeewww MEXICO. Might as well be Mexico as far as I'm concerned. So, I think I sent him a smile back or something... and then i looked in his Photo Album... bad move... MORE CUTENESS.
AND... an email address.
a hotmail address even... so what do i do because of my OWN stalker like tendencies?
I add him to MSN, duh.
See him sign on a few times when i'm on... cuz i'm not on that much, i use AIM more than MSN. And I decide to write him one night... i said something like hi... something stupid.... or smart aleck-y... and he wrote back similarly... something cocky. And i'm like ugh - he thinks he is so cute. Whatever. but I tell him who I am - where I got his sn from... and he goes to see my profile --- change in attitude! Not like a huge change - but the compliments started.
We had really good conversations... he was aware of social work and we talked about licensure, diff. aspects of the field... his own work and status, the like... and I think i ended the conversation that night. No need to look too eager just bc he was easy to talk to and cute. Besides... he's in new mexico.
We started emailing... long emails... then we started talking on the phone... long conversations... long high school "you hang up, no you hang up... i really don't want to get off the phone" conversations. (such a DORK, ugh). All the while I had other things going on in the vida that disappeared at the end of February... as did he - and then we decided to focus our energies on each other.
well well well, this is new. a man that knows what he wants and will say "i want to focus my time on you. are you willing to focus your time on me?" Heck, I was done for by then.... scared as all heck, but I said - yeah. Let's do this. It's March by now.... We met in May. The rest, as they say - is history.
I wrote more about the Papi chronicles in my journal - through our rough spots and thensome... but now we've started our own chronicles in THAT journal over there ... and over there ...
...however you have a bit of info now as to the man, the myth, the punky love of my life.
