I'm starting this thread to hold miscellaneous Chris communications (emails, chat logs, voice messages, texts) that don't fit into a particular "theme" or Christorical incident. The thread title and corresponding date will be updated whenever I add or update content.
To start things off, here's a transcript of a chat between Chris and Catherine. This took place prior to their first IRL meeting. You'll notice that Chris does most of the talking, which was typical. He'd very often ramble on and on like this despite Catherine not replying.
Also, something to keep in mind is that Chris is talking to a person he has yet to meet IRL: note the lovey-dovey language (despite receiving no encouragement from Catie) and his assumption that they were going to get married (the remark about her eventually becoming part of the family).
It's also amusing that Chris considers 8 hrs. of sleep a "nap", that's a full night for me (and most people).
I didn't censor out the information about the van's license plate because it's already well known and has been discussed and documented here. I also edited Chris's chat ID to just say "Chris" (same for "Catie").
IMO, it's also kinda weird how Chris refers to his mother as "Barbara Anne" and his father as "Mr. C."
To start things off, here's a transcript of a chat between Chris and Catherine. This took place prior to their first IRL meeting. You'll notice that Chris does most of the talking, which was typical. He'd very often ramble on and on like this despite Catherine not replying.
Also, something to keep in mind is that Chris is talking to a person he has yet to meet IRL: note the lovey-dovey language (despite receiving no encouragement from Catie) and his assumption that they were going to get married (the remark about her eventually becoming part of the family).
It's also amusing that Chris considers 8 hrs. of sleep a "nap", that's a full night for me (and most people).
I didn't censor out the information about the van's license plate because it's already well known and has been discussed and documented here. I also edited Chris's chat ID to just say "Chris" (same for "Catie").
IMO, it's also kinda weird how Chris refers to his mother as "Barbara Anne" and his father as "Mr. C."
[8/10/2014 12:55:53 PM] Catie: My mother lives in New York. I don't see her much anymore, I'm closer to my dad than to her. We send Christmas cards and I call her on Mother's Day and stuff, but the last time she visited here was when I graduated high school. I do love her, but we aren't close. I think she didn't like the stress of moving so much and resented me and Dad for a long time. We're okay now! Just not super lovey-dovey.
[8/10/2014 4:20:24 PM] Chris: Aw. Have you tried to get close to her? I can understand the resentment; Cole resented our mom and Mr. C. getting married. He ended up being the "Father of the Bride", and I can imagine how crazy stressful and emotional that must have been to him.
[8/10/2014 4:23:27 PM] Chris: Also, when my father and I moved to Richmond for my Middle and High School education, mom had to stay behind for her job at Virginia Power. She drove up on weekends. She eventually retired from there, and found employment at FNANB later, from which she was able to stay in Richmond with us throughout most of the years there, up to mid 2000, after my Graduation. But she had found resentment in Mr. C. in that he was there for me, and she was stuck in Ruckersville; she found her own comfort in sleeping on the couch, which does make for her habit of the same these days.
[8/10/2014 4:27:47 PM] Chris: In the end, I think she told Mr. C. of how he felt then and all. She was really upset then about it. But things calmed down about that, and here we are.
[8/10/2014 4:28:16 PM] Chris: I got to go; I hear my mom. I will check in again later, Love. (heart)
[8/10/2014 6:16:43 PM] Chris: Ugh, I am feeling out of it right now.
[8/10/2014 6:18:33 PM] Chris: We just received, special delivery, from the realtor people renting the house we're in, a letter of notice: "We need to inspect the house for cleanliness; we want to bring people by to show it to them; we still expect you all to be out by September 31st."
[8/10/2014 6:19:26 PM] Chris: And our house that is still under renovation; that project has been slow, with paperwork and all on the contractor's end. Ugh. But I saw a stack of triangle rafters for the roof in sealed plastic on the lawn there, so hopefully the project will move faster. We just talked to the contractor as well an encouraged speeding it up.
[8/10/2014 6:21:59 PM] Chris: The State Farm agent, working with our main agent, in claims and whatever, kinda screwed me and my mom over here. She will be getting a piece of our minds. Anyhow, she started her work downstairs, sorting and repacking (some of which will either be disposed of or donated, if not packed to come back). I need to get on that myself upstairs. I just cleared the trash from under my bed and cleaned up a few carpet stains with some elbow grease and Resolve cleaner.
[8/10/2014 6:24:17 PM] Chris: **sigh...
[8/10/2014 6:25:47 PM] Chris: I've just disposed of some garbage into the can at the house, donated a thing she found to donate, and now I'm catching my breath with tea and apple slices at McDonalds.
[8/10/2014 6:26:53 PM] Chris: I do apologize for missing the 1:00 PM, but I felt tired from the emotions of last night's mother-son talk.
[8/10/2014 6:27:23 PM] Chris: And, yeah, I didn't hit the hay until like 4 AM.
[8/10/2014 6:29:25 PM] Chris: I need to get on a more consistent day schedule, instead of falling back on my fickle internal clock. I might try taking a nap at midnight and getting up at like 8 AM, or something. I need to call that claims agent anyway, in addition to the piece of my mind message I gave fresh from the moment. It works out that we will be meeting on the 23rd, because I will be having a rough week this one now.
[8/10/2014 6:31:24 PM] Chris: I was driving the van; I imagined you sitting in the passenger seat next to me. Seeing your face there made me smile and feel a little better.
[8/10/2014 6:32:26 PM] Chris: I am more of a face person, definitely; I usually notice the face of people first anyway.
[8/10/2014 6:33:31 PM] Chris: You might not find that in a lot of men; the lot of them stereotypically notice and stare at the C-Cup size or greater breasts. But I know better; "My eyes are up here!"
[8/10/2014 6:35:34 PM] Chris: Eye contact is initially difficult for autistic people; something in the ADD that goes along with that. I'm little different. A lot of times, my eyes will look in other directions, down, upward; wherever. It takes some effort for me to maintain it, and even on successful eye contact, I may have an eye or both twitch off into a direction.
[8/10/2014 6:36:44 PM] Chris: But I assure you, I am still listening.
[8/10/2014 6:38:11 PM] Chris: I feel like I will be successful in maintaining eye contact with you, since we are in sync emotionally like that, and that you have proven yourself very compassionate, caring and understanding of my flaws.
[8/10/2014 6:39:17 PM] Chris: I really do see the spring in your green eyes, and I look forward to see it live in front of me when we meet.
[8/10/2014 6:39:36 PM] Chris: Also, while I am remembering, just a heads up. I still tend to be early for my dates and appointments at locations.
[8/10/2014 6:48:37 PM] Chris: So, my vehicle is an will be a dark blue Dodge Caravan, with a license plate promoting finding (unlocking) a cure for Autism (with crayon children on it); it reads "UN4EVR", as in "United" or "Unlocking" for ever, in that cure for Autism. Mr. C. Had that plate made and thought out like that; he came up with that idea.
[8/10/2014 6:51:00 PM] Chris: I feel a little better now; I just received a call from the claims agent: she is on vacation right now, but she will call the realtor and get those details straightened out; we were supposed to be paid up through the end of October, Not September. Oh, and I realized the mistake of 9/31 instead of 9/30. It slipped my mind, "30 past September, April, June and November."
[8/10/2014 6:51:19 PM] Chris: I'm still catching my breath.
[8/10/2014 6:52:03 PM] Chris: I will check in again later. Stay Safe, Catie Heart, my Love. (inlove)(heart)(heart)(heart)(kiss)
[8/10/2014 11:20:54 PM] Chris: Hey, Love. (kiss)
[8/10/2014 11:24:00 PM] Chris: I just had a three hour nap; random dreams. I even had a conscious moment where I realized I was dreaming, and I looked up to the higher force and said, "God, let me have the unicorn battle dream"! Then there was a flash, but I was not on a unicorn sadly. I ended up being teleported into the middle of McDonald's commercial of my subconscious's creation. The Aqua Teens and Ronald made an appearance.
[8/10/2014 11:24:44 PM] Chris: Ugh! The higher force is messing with my head again. Anyway, another detail about our planned meeting I would like to share. I mentioned my van and it's plate; remember that, so you'll know that I am there already.
[8/10/2014 11:29:18 PM] Chris: I think you will recognize me easily. I may be mentally distracted while I'm waiting. I invite you to pleasantly surprise me. You can come up to about beside or behind where I am, and touch my shoulder a short moment after you greet me like this, "Hey there, what's a pretty gal like you doing in a place like this?"
[8/10/2014 11:30:05 PM] Chris: I will definitely know it's you, and it will be a delight, you know. Just flirtatious fun.
[8/10/2014 11:31:42 PM] Chris: I have been wide awake the past half hour. I might take another nap later. I think I will get something to eat.
[8/10/2014 11:34:21 PM] Chris: I am picturing you laying beside me to my left in this bed. You bring something energetically awesome out of me, Catie Heart. (heart)(heart)(heart)
[8/10/2014 11:34:53 PM] Chris: Picturing you beside me will help get me through the tough week ahead.
[8/10/2014 11:35:43 PM] Chris: The twenty third; that fantasy becomes mutually real for the both of us. (kiss)(inlove)
[8/10/2014 11:36:14 PM] Chris: Stay Safe and Well with a Good Day. I will check in again later, Love.
[4:09:53 AM] Chris: Just another thought or two for now. I have watched episodes 3 and 4 of the Tudors, and I like how mad Henry felt deeply about Anne; that was news to me at the moment.
[4:12:08 AM] Chris: And the old king his sister married, I felt upon first impression from his face, he reminded me of someone pretending to be Rumplestiltskin. But yeah, she worked to her desire of marrying for herself.
[4:14:31 AM] Chris: Also, I have learned the name of the British actress from Frasier, she is Jane Leeves. I am not sure if Leeves is an English or British name, but she was born there. Quite the great actress, and she doesn't have to hide or fake her accent; she sells it well. But sincerely, I really like your accent much better, Catie. (heart)
[4:16:43 AM] Chris: I have just learned from my mother that she worked volunteer at the library in her High School. It shows how I tend to feel attracted to the bookworm types.
[4:17:59 AM] Chris: But she was also a cheerleader for a while. Got her knee hurt after being tackled by a football player, though. We still have her baton somewhere around here.
[4:18:24 AM] Chris: Or was it her ankle that got hurt then? She had one or the other hurt while doing the Twist at a school dance later on. I tend to get the two stories mixed up in that detail.
[4:20:43 AM] Chris: Also, please don't let on with her what I have told you about Cole, and his resentment and details. She know at the moment that I only told you about him being a movie critic in New York with his own website.
[4:21:27 AM] Chris: Nothing else. So, in conversation with her, please let her tell you the stories before sharing your thoughts about that.
[4:27:18 AM] Chris: My mom's name is Barbara Anne Weston Chandler, but I sometimes call her Barbara Anne; it makes her smile. She believes me about you being who you are, but she has her own reasonable paranoia about people, since she had kinda removed herself from socializing as much as she used to. The Trolls and their troublemaking also contributed there. I feel you will have to earn her as well in a number of conversations after introductions are made. In the eventual joining of us as family, I feel it beneficial for us all to be at least moderately happy, with all due respects with life and stresses, of course. At least to hopefully get along. I don't think it will be too difficult, considering how much you and I have in common as well.
[4:28:23 AM] Chris: Another thing about Barbara Anne, she enjoys shows like "Storage Wars", "Pawn Stars", and a lot of the automotive shows on the Velocity channel. Just so you know.
[4:29:55 AM] Chris: Also, among where I would like to travel to visit sometime, I would like to visit the Lego factory and Legoland in Denmark. And, check out James Mays' Toy Stories; he built a full size house out of LEGO; I want to go there as well.
[4:30:52 AM] Chris: And maybe visit the Warehouse in San Fransisco to meet the MythBusters. I would like to get my duct tape wallet autographed by Adam, Jamie, Kari, Tory and Grant; maybe my phone case as well.
[4:32:11 AM] Chris: And I have my own thoughts about their myths and ideas. My favorite episodes are the Clean Vs. Dirty Car and YouTube Special episodes.
[4:33:27 AM] Chris: I'm going to try to take another nap towards being on a day schedule here. I will check in again later.
[4:33:48 AM] Chris: (inlove)(inlove)(inlove)
[4:34:01 AM] Chris: Stay Safe and Well, Love.
I suspect he tells all of his inane crap to the dog these days.
. I can't believe I'm going to cite McLuhan here, but "the medium is the message." That concept is worlds beyond him, it says something different that this is over a platform that's ideal for terse, factual conversations and immediate response.
