I met a girl yesterday. She gave me a tour of an apartment, at a place called Fountainhead Apartments, one community north of the one I am in, which is Reflections.
She reminded me a little of a little of the girl I asked to marry me, Alisha Finch, who wanted what I wanted, but this is a long story, and I let her go. It was in her eyes- Tricia's eyes, that she looked very similar, though hers were blue, and Alisha's were green. There was just something familiar.
As we entered the apartment that she was showing to me, she mentioned her son having a reconstructive ear surgery just recently. She said he lost two of his ear bones to an infection/disease... That they were ate up by it. I'm familiar with this, as I went through the same thing. I said, "cholesteatoma?", and she said yes, surprised I knew, and expressed relief to find someone who knew about it- who identified, and who had had it. I was the first person she had met, besides her son, to have had this disease, and she was the first person I have met to at least be this close to it.
I advised her to get her son tested for food allergies. Milk is a prominent allergy, and is said to be responsible for many cases of chronic ear infections- the cause of this cholesteatoma. Allergies don't often cause obvious symptoms, to ones who wouldn't know what to look for. I know that I could have been saved a lot of trouble had mine been identified from an early age. I only realized when I was 27.
I said something, asking about her husband, and she said that she is not married. And I looked at her ring, saying "what? uh, I thought..", and she said that she bought that at Wal-Mart because a guy was filming her when she was showing him an apartment some weeks back. That it was recommended by a sheriff that helps with security there. I got an erection, then, and had to try to maintain stability in conversation, as before I approached her respectfully, as a non-single lady. And she was open, and was quick to tell me that she was not married. And, with our connection (shared disease, among them), and her comments on liking my five finger shoes, and not being in a hurry to get back to her office, nor even answer her son's texts (8 years old-- I told her to, but she kept talking to me), it seemed she might be open, to me.
At some point before or after, I showed her a picture, on my phone, of millipedes that I found in the apartment I was supposed to move into in my current complex. She said that her son has the same phone.
I saw some ants once, in the kitchen, walking down the wall next to the bar. Two of them, walking together. She said that she thought that they were cute, and I thought that was cute.
I noticed she had a patch of facial hair, under her jaw-line, on the left side. I had to do a double take. Otherwise she's very feminine, and not unattractive, though not perfect physically- not fully aligned teeth/crooked, yada yada, not perfect form, yada. The hair, understandably, might trouble a male to see. As much time as girls spend on their face, I have seen far too many that totally miss hair under their chin, or along the jaw-line. Not a lot, but still.
Alisha had the same thing. But I made her aware of it. And I think it made her insecure, even though I was trying to be as unarmed about it as possible.
I'm not trying to be shallow. Just that it connected. I am certainly not perfect.
Alisha, who I asked to marry me (the only one), who had my mother's maiden name, and who's name can calculate to 23 by numerology, though I didn't know it then even though I went on and on about the number to her, first of all (for girls), has the average sum of all four names of the four girls who I dated seriously, in life- those ones I invested in. Names Marilyn, Alisha, Sara, Katie, beginning with Katie, and ending with Marilyn. Mask.
I think she- Trica had the surgeries her son had mixed up, but I am not sure. I got the impression that he got the mastoidectomy in November, on the same side as mine, and if that is the case then he will have reconstructive surgery about 8 months or so after that, to give the disease any chance to grow back (it's a benign tumor), if it would- it would in that time most likely. To give that chance, before attempting reconstruction.
Later, I went to Whole Foods, and ran into a guy that I frequently talk to, named Matt. He works behind the meat counter, and has made a point to remember my name. He is often hard to hear, speaking without enough volume, because his ears are messed up. He told me he is supposed to wear hearing aids, but doesn't. I ask him to repeat himself. He also asks me, sometimes. But he's not the only one, because my problem is similar to his, in that I have ear problems, and I also speak too quietly for people, sometimes... Or used to. I don't seem to have any problem lately, with the common person.
I seem to catch Matt on his breaks, a lot. He'll be going on break when I am there. It could just be and probably is because I go often the same time each day, though yesterday I went at a different time.
On the way out, a girl, Lora, a girl who seems to have taken a liking to me, tells me I am a machine, when she asks if I am still drinking so much apple juice, after I told her I am also drinking 16 oz of apple cider vinegar a day. I said "we're all machines". And she said that I am like Optimus Prime. I was a little perplexed by her comment for a second, and smiled, saying that that is a compliment. She smiled, and said "I know".
Today, as I am getting to my car, I see a girl next to it, messing around with the trunk of hers. It was closed, and as I walk by, she opens it. Her car is a hatchback. I first did notice just her, and a slender, but in shape body, with tight, black pants on like so many girls wear. Straight, healthy looking brown hair. I look, but of course try not to stare. She opens her trunk to situate something inside, before going inside the Whole Foods. I see a picture of what looks like a bus, going into a tunnel. It is a watercolor painting. The bus is greenish. Teal-ish. It is a striking piece of work. It caught my eye. So I did stare at it. She noticed me looking at it, as I put stuff away in my trunk, next to her, and seemed to hold off shutting her hatchback. Then I asked if that was her art. She said, "If you can call it art". I went closer, and asked if she minded. She said she didn't, and then moved a steering wheel cover that was laying around the greater part of the image, to let me see more of it. She asked me if I was an artist, and I said, "eh... I don't know.", and she laughed.
She began to explain the image to me, and I noticed her accent. Eastern European/Russian. From her speaking, I thought she was older. Older than me. I hadn't yet made direct contact on her face... only her shape. She explained her image as inspired by selective hearing. There were "thought bubbles" around, and some on a traincar (but I said bus, before, in this), going into an ear, which I had just noticed. Above, it said "To Brain". At the brain- or closest in where the brain might be, there was a clock. It was hard to tell at first what everything was, but it was all interesting to look at without knowing at first. Something about the details. There was a lot going on. It was cool to find out what it was.
We made eye contact, for the first time, and I was struck with how blue her eyes were. Very light, light blue. Hair dark brown, straight. Skin smooth, white. Looked younger- mid twenties. I asked her if she was Russian, and she said yes, but I could tell there was some hesitation. I told her I worked with a lot of Russians, when I delivered pizza for Dominos, some years back, and she connected- her father worked there for many years. She told me his name, but it didn't ring a bell. He stopped working there before I got there. But, she knew Vlad, and some others who worked there. Alex, too, and others. She said that this is a "small town". I think I didn't catch her expression, as she seemed serious. I said, "eh, not really"- as it's really with about a million people or so. I don't know. Around there.
At some point she worked in that she was actually Estonian, when I asked another question. I sort of apologized for assuming she was Russian- that it was her accent, but she basically said she is- and that her parents are from Belarus, and that they all speak Russian.
Her name is Anna. Ah-Nah.