June 2008 Archives
Yes, you read the headline right...I found a nice, well maybe not "nice" in the traditional sense, but normal woman who is diluted enough to go out with me!
Let's call her "The Blockbuster." This is an online girl, but one that actually turned out. It was helped by my trip to Florida that allowed us a month to e-mail and talk back and forth about who we were. Unlike a crazy person she didn't use this as an excuse to get attached, but merely to find out about me. It was a refreshing change from the way business is usually done in Alaska.
I got back and we hit it off pretty well. Since then it's been a couple of weeks since we've be "official" and about a month since we started dating. It's been going pretty good so far and I'm hopeful we can maintain the current level of normalcy.
This has made me realize that we can define some things by the absence of certain characteristics. For example, a crazy woman can be defined by the absence of the following...
1.) More than 15 texts in a day
2.) Storming down to their car sitting in the driveway to then start a text fight
3.) Leaving unreasonable things at my place in an effort to "nest"
4.) Feeling neglected from a lack of attention due to my need to sleep at least five hours on a weeknight
- Or a need to do laundry after an entire weekend spent with one another
- Or seeing a movie you had planned to see (and was willing to see again)
- Or because you like her dog (she suspects you're in it just for a pet)
5.) A feeling of shame and panic anytime she wants to meet my friends
6.) Generally clingy actions
7.) Made up people on the internet stalking me
8.) Fights between the girlfriend and said fictional people
9.) Suspicions that every girl you come in contact with "wants you"
10.) Proposals for marriage, living together, or anything else not commensurate with a relationship that's a month old
That being said there are some oddities...
The biggest thing I hinted at - the nice thing. This girl is all about me being bad in a party kind of way - staying out, getting drunk - that kind of stuff. Nothing too bad or illegal, but I tend to be a pretty responsible guy. She thinks she can change me and I'm merely a challenge, but I'll hold tough - it's hard to teach a old dog new tricks...
In other news I have picked up a bit of a clingy friend that includes some of the things mentioned above (texts, panic, etc). We went on a bit of a lunch date and she wasn't my type, but that didn't deter her (even when I said no romantic involvement). When we went out a second time as friends (I made that painfully clear) learning that I now had a girlfriend didn't deter her - in fact she made it quite clear that I could have her if I wanted and when I politely declined she invited me over for dinner. I thought it was good when she went on a date with another dude, but I get the feeling she was just trying to make me jealous or something. This has cooled off over the last week or so, but we are having lunch tomorrow (as friends, as I painfully made clear again) and if it flares up I'm going to have to be a bastard...but this is merely a small cloud in my overall sunny day and life is good.
Also, sorry for the lack of updates, but between a new job on base, a new girlfriend, a few new hobbies, and a trip home for a wedding (my only mistake was making the girlfriend "official" before going to a wedding in which I had to turn down quite a few overtures - and by quite a few I mean two, maybe three, but that's 2 - 3 more than I usually get!) I've been pretty busy so the blog got put on the back burner, but now I'm back!
Until this one turns batshit crazy...
AirForceKush...aka...the Arctic Fox
Let's call her "The Blockbuster." This is an online girl, but one that actually turned out. It was helped by my trip to Florida that allowed us a month to e-mail and talk back and forth about who we were. Unlike a crazy person she didn't use this as an excuse to get attached, but merely to find out about me. It was a refreshing change from the way business is usually done in Alaska.
I got back and we hit it off pretty well. Since then it's been a couple of weeks since we've be "official" and about a month since we started dating. It's been going pretty good so far and I'm hopeful we can maintain the current level of normalcy.
This has made me realize that we can define some things by the absence of certain characteristics. For example, a crazy woman can be defined by the absence of the following...
1.) More than 15 texts in a day
2.) Storming down to their car sitting in the driveway to then start a text fight
3.) Leaving unreasonable things at my place in an effort to "nest"
4.) Feeling neglected from a lack of attention due to my need to sleep at least five hours on a weeknight
- Or a need to do laundry after an entire weekend spent with one another
- Or seeing a movie you had planned to see (and was willing to see again)
- Or because you like her dog (she suspects you're in it just for a pet)
5.) A feeling of shame and panic anytime she wants to meet my friends
6.) Generally clingy actions
7.) Made up people on the internet stalking me
8.) Fights between the girlfriend and said fictional people
9.) Suspicions that every girl you come in contact with "wants you"
10.) Proposals for marriage, living together, or anything else not commensurate with a relationship that's a month old
That being said there are some oddities...
The biggest thing I hinted at - the nice thing. This girl is all about me being bad in a party kind of way - staying out, getting drunk - that kind of stuff. Nothing too bad or illegal, but I tend to be a pretty responsible guy. She thinks she can change me and I'm merely a challenge, but I'll hold tough - it's hard to teach a old dog new tricks...
In other news I have picked up a bit of a clingy friend that includes some of the things mentioned above (texts, panic, etc). We went on a bit of a lunch date and she wasn't my type, but that didn't deter her (even when I said no romantic involvement). When we went out a second time as friends (I made that painfully clear) learning that I now had a girlfriend didn't deter her - in fact she made it quite clear that I could have her if I wanted and when I politely declined she invited me over for dinner. I thought it was good when she went on a date with another dude, but I get the feeling she was just trying to make me jealous or something. This has cooled off over the last week or so, but we are having lunch tomorrow (as friends, as I painfully made clear again) and if it flares up I'm going to have to be a bastard...but this is merely a small cloud in my overall sunny day and life is good.
Also, sorry for the lack of updates, but between a new job on base, a new girlfriend, a few new hobbies, and a trip home for a wedding (my only mistake was making the girlfriend "official" before going to a wedding in which I had to turn down quite a few overtures - and by quite a few I mean two, maybe three, but that's 2 - 3 more than I usually get!) I've been pretty busy so the blog got put on the back burner, but now I'm back!
Until this one turns batshit crazy...
AirForceKush...aka...the Arctic Fox
