Hi.

I’m 44, female, single, no kids, one cat, and I live in Washington, DC. I’m open to moving but would prefer to welcome someone to my life here, if someone’s so inclined.

I’m going to frame this post a bit differently than I usually do. I’m going to lead with my “strengths,” as revealed to me in a Strengths Finder test I took for $19 in pursuit of a new career.

My first strength is Input. I like to collect data. I made a spreadsheet of every vaped/combusted bowl of weed I consumed for 8 months (and learned a hell of a lot about my consumption in the process). I keep track of my focusmate sessions, marking the category, whether it’s 25 or 50 minutes, date, day, time, what I intended to work on, the rating on a scale of 1-10 down to the .5, and what I actually did. I’ve been doing this for 13 months and have over 450 sessions recorded.

My second strength is Intellection. I like smart people. I like to use 50-cent words. I like to listen to people nerd out about what they are into — be it the Beatles’ lost record to copyright law to tech talk that makes my brain cramp — I love all of it. Except when my dad does it.

My third strength is Learner, which is less compelling than it sounds. It talks about the act of learning — and, in my experience, that doesn’t mean understanding and being able to implement said learning. But we can get into that another time.

My last two, Adaptability and Connectedness, are kind of cheats. I know where they come from, they come from my spiritual beliefs that the universe has some rhyme or reason behind it. I believe in auspicious coincidence showing the way down the right path. However, I am not the kind of person who can adapt immediately to events coming at me fast and furious. My adaptability is.... slower in nature.

As for Connectedness? The book says to be a counselor or someone who emphasizes links. I get why it pegged me as this, but jfc, it doesn’t help me with a career. I don’t really like people, so putting me in a career where I have to deal with them on a regular basis doesn’t seem like sage advice.

So, those are 5 “strengths” of mine. Seeing how I’m not about the physical but the mental connection, I’ll just briefly outline that I’m 5’ tall, BBW, brown hair, brown eyes, and I wear jeans and t-shirts 99% of the time.

Send me a private message about your own strengths, and let’s see if we want to talk.