Anyway, gosh it's been over a year since I've blogged!!! I guess life was moving too fast for me to slow down and put thought to paper, er...blog. So...what's been happening? Here are the highlights/lowlights:
- Moved from previous apt and in with Susan for a year...saved $$$, paid off credit cards...year is just about up
- Boys are still doing their thing...Andrew got to finally be on a basketball team and he did very well...Chris is starting Tee Ball on Saturday (Lord...be with us)
- Work is still work and I'm truly thankful for my job. A lot of people were downsized due to the horrible recession that we've been in since '07 (thank you George Bush)
- Speaking of Bush...he's outta here!!! And welcome the First Black Family, President Barack Obama and Family!! YES WE CAN!!! YES WE DID!!!
- Let's see...the love life.....this might need to be a whole 'nother post...lol!!
Drew and I attempted for a minute....didn't work out. Met this guy at work, we went out a few times, I thought it was going to turn into something, but....alas, I was wrong. He needed time to "date" or something and wasn't ready for a relationship at that time (more on that later)....so the summer came. Ah....summer! Brings out the best in people :) Anyway, guys come and go over the summer....nothing really interesting to write about. So, my birthday comes.....and the guy from work in still in the back of my mind (I wished at that time that he wasn't, but he was sooo....) I invite him to my birthday dinner and he doesn't show! The reason/excuse/whatever is that he was tired! Too tired to come have dinner with me and my friends on my birthday! So, I'm pissed....like really, really pissed. I decided at that point that I was really done with him. I didn't have time for games and apparently he did, and that he needed to go play them with someone else!
But....here comes Halloween. Another of my favorite holidays!! So, I have this costume party at the house, and somehow he finds out about it, I think I inadvertently mentioned it while talking to him and he asks if he's invited.....I finally cave and say, yes, he can come.
So now I'm thinking, this is the perfect opportunity for me to show him what he's missing. I'm looking EXTRA HOT in my costume (a naughty cop) and it's very obvious that he's noticing me. I don't remember flirting all night but apparently I did, cause he didn't leave until the next day....damn!! That wasn't in my plan at all!!!
So, after this....we're hanging out some, not all the time, but we're talking more at work and after work or whatever and I feel like this dude is sucking me back in...LOL.
At the same time this is going on, I'm slick being cyberstalked by this guy on Facebook....long story short, he's history as well cause he's a nutjob!!
Fastforward to Christmas time....yet another favorite holiday. Me and the work dude are talking online (like we do) and he mentions Christmas and how he wants to get me something (wha??) so he gives me an amount that I can spend at Macy's and ends up ordering me a purse. I'm kinda throwed by this because for all intents and purposes, we're very casually dating (cause he's still not ready for a relationship) and he's getting me a gift at Christmas??? At this point, I don't know what the hell is going on.
So....the New Year comes....YAY!! And we're spending all kind of time together...he lets me know that he's not interested in dating anyone else or sleeping with anyone else, but is not quite ready to call me his girlfriend.....I don't know why, he's acting like a boyfriend, but whatever. I decide to let things happen as they happen.
February rolls around and the next thing I know.....somehow, we end up in a relationship! It's so funny to me that this guy that I started talking to in Feb of 2008 has finally come to realize that what was right in front of him was the best thing that's happened to him in a long time (now I'm just assuming that's how he feels...LOL)
We've had some bumps in the road, miscomunications and mishaps, folks from the past showing up (that will def be another post)...but all things considering, it's been wonderful.
I haven't been this happy in such a long time that it feels weird....doesn't feel like it belongs to me...yet. I'm trying to take things slow and let things happen as they happen, but that is sooo hard for me, i'm a natural planner and I'm having to put those urges aside.
This relationship is teaching me patience and understanding and for that, I'm grateful.
I'll post more about him and us later......but for now, I'm out!
Vintage Me >.<
