Orphans of a sort.

I am on a knitting forum online.  I noticed a gal had put up a notice for trading addresses for pen pals.  I was intrigued, and popped right in that I would like to have a pen pal.

No response.

I sent a second, private message, uh, did you get my info?

Nada.

Odd.  I send one more vaguely hopeful note to the group saying this is great, I would love to be a part.

Zippo...

So, I figure, well, maybe she's busy, maybe I will just receive an address later, something.  Maybe.  I note that she had said she had trouble receiving private messages sometimes.

Huh.  Well, I had messaged her both publicly, and privately, so I didn't know what to think.

She then mentioned, she was going to wait until the first week in April, so she could sort all the names, get people the requests as much as they wanted, (i.e., I would like to have someone from England, or someone from the Midwest), so I waited.

And waited.

Two weeks in, pbbbt. Not a thing.  I decided that if I'd not heard anything by the end of the month, I would both publicly and privately give her a shout.  Hello, even...

That's when I noticed someone ELSE had a question about the pen pal group.  Had anyone received a pen pal?  She hadn't, and was wondering if they'd been sent out yet.  Several piped up, oh, yes, we've exchanged one or two letters by this point.

Huh...  Grumble.  So I private messaged the gal that had asked about the pen pals, and had not received one.  I told her I was in the same boat.  And, that being the case, would she care to be MY pen pal?  She was tickled!

So, I am west coast, she is east coast, and we have officially exchanged one letter at this point.  I will be writing another soon.  I am pleased.  Even if it was a total accident, we two "orphans" ended up together!

(And so, I will be writing her, and some cards and letters to friends over the next few days, I have a bit of catching up to do!)

Oh, and happy Blogiversary to me, this is my 1000th blog, if the stats be correct!  Yaaay!