12 weeks!
My girl has yet to earn herself a nickname. That's okay, though.
Today marks 12 weeks for us. 12 awesome weeks.
It's kinda like babies. When do you stop counting their age in weeks and go to months? When do you stop counting their age in months and just say that the kid is two?
Lots of thoughts. I'll go right to the important part.
The thought that keeps tumbling in my head is that while I thought I knew what happiness was before (albeit briefly), I was totally wrong. Completely wrong. Dead wrong.
Well, not exactly.
I was happy, in a small, limited way. In a very particular set of circumstances, under very specific conditions, I was happy. If that makes any sense.
This? This is totally different. This is happiness that transcends... I don't even know what. It's just on a totally different level. I'm not happy only when XYZ is happening. I'm not happy most of the time, until ABC happens. I'm just happy. There is no anxiety whatsoever attached to this happiness. This happiness is not conditional.
I don't know how else to describe it.
And it's all so damn easy.
She's all moved into her new house which, coincidentally, is conveniently located very close to where I work. It was sort of strange transitioning from being at my place a whole lot to being at her place a whole lot. It's all good, though. There are perks to both places. We come and go as our schedule dictates.
We've been going to a lot of basketball games. I've just about convinced her that she might as well just buy a season ticket for next year. I like that she likes going, because that's one of my very favorite things of the summer.
It's an interesting transition going from socializing as an individual to socializing as a couple.
Despite my tenuous state of coupledom over the last several years, I never socialized that way much. Probably because we had completely different ideas about socializing in the first place.
And we've kept pretty busy. She's totally cool about coming with me to things I'm interested in. It helps that we have a lot of mutual friends in our choir peeps. I see her parents pretty often and they're cool.
We think the same way. The thought patterns we have are freakishly similar sometimes. About the randomest stuff. She has a big, sexy vocabulary (mmmm... language...).
We have personalities that are somewhat similar, and not exactly complementary, but that mesh in just the right way. We're both introverts, and very conscientious of the other's need to have time and space. She gets my blogging and all that internet stuff and encourages me to do it. In fact, she sat on the couch next to me with her Mac for an hour and mandated that I get some blogging time in today.
She makes me laugh. We laugh so much.
She's so strong and has such a good heart. I want nothing but to take care of her and keep her safe and make her happy.
And, in case you hadn't seen yet, she's totally adorable.
Love it. Love her.
And it's all so damn easy.
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I get a kick out of you calling yourself an introvert.
And I know I met her for like two minutes, but she seemed super nice I love that she goes to Lynx games!
you're alive! i was hoping you were incognegro because you were supremely-astonishingly-crazy happy and so it is! good to "hear" from you and sending you continued good vibes, u deserve em.
Welcome to the Club Of True Loooooooooooove!
I'm so happy for you I could cry; it's about damn TIME you get that unconditional happy. You more than deserve it, Erica.
Bayou and I are smiling ear to ear. :-D
Total awesomeness. You and "your girl" should hook it up in EP sometime.
Oh man. A relationship where you can breathe? So, so awesome. (And yeah, what Lachlan said.)
i'm happy that you're so happy :)
*EEK*
How completely and totally EXCITING!!!!!!!!!!
You rock!!
Wow...that was so awesome to read! She is very lucky to have someone like you in her life!
I'm giddy on your behalf!
PS -- Is she coming to BlogHer?
An easy, drama-free (yet rewarding) relationship. Lovely. And much deserved.
Congrats, dear girl! Brandy and I couldn't be happier for you.
Thanks, y'all! :)
My girl has yet to earn herself a nickname. That's okay, though. -- She keeps arguing this point with me. She claims that if a nickname is supposed to be reflective of her essence as a person, then an isolated incident shouldn't spawn a nickname. Not sure I agree.
I get a kick out of you calling yourself an introvert. -- I totally am! I can certainly be social, but only for short periods of time. That time is extended with liquor.
Is she coming to BlogHer? -- Not likely, but we'll see.
:-D
De-lurking to say..
(squeal!) I just love folks in love....
Congrats, and enjoy.
Congratulations!
I get you on the easy part. I had a date recently and he noticed that, wow, everyone else in the restaurant looked miserable and bored, and we never stopped laughing the whole time. (Odd when it's a man who notices that.)
He's seeing someone else now, and so am I, but I can't get over how GOOD it feels when hours and hours have passed and you didn't notice them flying by.
I'm so thrilled for you -- I adore you and want you to be as happy as this life will let you be. And you're giving me hope that whatever has been eluding us simply just has yet to be discovered, but it does in fact exist. *mwah!*
How awesome. She's a cutie. Wishing you the best!