Date of the Month-July Tuesday early evening coffee

So I cut it very close but I did have my July Date of the Month.  He is the last guy that I was talking to on OKStupid.  We emailed back and forth for months like at least 2 emails a week.  I wanted to look up the date of the first message but I deleted my OKStupid account.  We emailed pretty regularly.  When I decided to delete my account I told him and we exchanged info.  So we text back and forth for a few weeks and talked on the phone a few times.  He is pretty chatty online and via text. We had talked about hanging out but I ended up picked the date.  I volunteer for Make-A-Wish and had a meeting with a wish kid in his area so i suggested we hang out.  We arranged to meet for coffee.  

I got there first (I was actually early) and sat outside waiting.  He showed up and wow is he tall.   He is 6"3.  Holly shit!!  I am only 5"2 so you can just imagine how that looked.  He probably has to duck to get through some doorways and I can barely reach the second shelf in the kitchen cabinets in my apartment.  

July is 1/2 Japanese 1/2 white.  He is a military brat and lived in Japan as a child before moving to the states.   He moved to Tennessee before Jr High  and has a slight southern accent.  Not enough to make him sound unintelligent.  In my opinion the southern accent sounds better when it comes from a woman.  His accents was slight and only noticeable occasionally.  

I noticed he had a yin and yang necklace on around his neck.  Kinda looked like this one.  

Is the origin of Yin and Yang Japanese?  Huhhh I wonder.  Are you wondering?  

Hold on.  I Am going to google it. 

Huhh...... 



So no.  Yin and Yang is Chinese philosophy.   So I guess he just really likes the ideas of complementary forces which is what Yin and Yang represent.  


I told him about my friend Jaymie.  I think I was 24 when we met.  It is a pretty crazy story.  Did you notice that we spell our names the same way?  It isnt as common as other spellings.  We are also 6  months apart to the day.  My birthday is Aug 13.  Yes it is coming up.  And her birthday is Feb 13th.  Many, many years ago we went to the fair together.  There was a booth to get a necklace of the phase of the moon on your birthday.  We looked it up.  I was born on a Full Moon she was born on a New Moon.  I am a complete extrovert but she is more introverted.  There is other random things that are complimentary about my friend Jaymie and I.  

I saw his necklace and told him about her.  We also talked about our friends and family.  We talked about work.  We chatted about movies and other things that I just cant recall right now. There was more than a few awkward silences.  I noticed myself saying, "so ya" as filler.  

We hung out for just over an hour.  He was really chatty via email and text but not so much in person.  I have the ability to help carry a conversation and save from a painful death but I struggled a bit with July.  I was really glad we didn't plan to meet for dinner.