All dressed up

Hi all,

Hope you're doing well this evening.

I know, I know, I've been totally delinquent on the blog posts. There's no excuse. As usual I've just been super lazy.

So what's been going on? Hmmm...

My dad came home on Sunday. It was good to see him - I haven't seen him since I was over in the homeland last December.

Work has been going ok. Not as much fun since K left, but we still sneak txt messages and e-mails back and forth, so she still helps my day pass by pretty quickly.

Sometimes I wonder where things are going between us. I'm enjoying her company very much. And the more time I spend with her, but more I want to be with her. Best of all...

She makes me smile.

Oh yeah, and giggle too. I know, I know. Cheese alert. But when we're together, I feel like we're just a bunch of kids.

Like I said, I'm not really sure where this is going. We haven't had "the where are we going / what are we doing talk" yet. But I'm sure it's going to be soon - It's about that time. Until then, I'm just going to enjoy what I have, and what will be will be.

Heh. In theory.

I must say, this has been one of the most healthiest relationships that I've had in my short history of dating. For the most part, we've had very good communication about everything. So far so good. We've shared the stuff that we're scared about, and many of our insecurities. And everything's been ok.

I have even met her mum.

For some reason, it wasn't weird like I thought it would be. so that's good, right? I think it's K. Her presence seems to put me at ease. She seriously relaxes me.

Like I said in my previous post - I'm a little scared as to how much she has an effect on me.

The final thing that she's been waiting for is almost done. It should be anytime now...

My brother comes home for a visit on Thursday. So it'll be super nice to see him again as well.

-Kirk

Withdrawal

Hi all,

Hope you're doing well this evening.

You get used to seeing someone pretty much every single day, and when you don't, it's not so much fun.

It's kind of scary when you finally realize how much influence someone has on you.

-Kirk

Resurfacing

Hi all,

Long time no talk. Hope you're all doing well. This has probably been the longest stretch I remember that I've gone not puting in a blog entry.

Today starts my 4 day weekend. We get Monday off, and I thought I'd take Friday off too because I needed a break from work.

Badly.

Work has been busy, but not terrible. I shouldn't really complain but I will anyway.

So let's see, what's been going on...

Chinese class has been going pretty well. I'm enjoying the conversational parts more than the phonetic pronunciations though. My mom has been using Mandarin words in our conversations to help increase my vocabulary too so that's been good too.

But I am still very far away from being fluent. If you want me to order an egg roll or water for you at a Chinese restaurant, I'm your man. Otherwise, you'll have to look elsewhere.

Last weekend my mom's good friend from Middle School came and visited us from London. For an entire week, she and my mom talked nonstop. From morning until night. On the weekend, I played chauffeur / tour guide and took them around to some of the local attractions.

Last Friday I got to see a whole new side of K - her competitive side. I thought it was great. It's funny how people can change when there's competition involved. The smack talk started early in the morning and went all the way until game time. We played this goofy dice game and I was able to demonstrate my poor skills of adding single and double digit numbers together.

(don't tell anyone - My Asian card may get revoked)

We played two games and then we called it quits. I had beginner's luck so I won both times.

She now owes me a victory dinner.

Later on we watched Wedding Crashers. It was pretty funny, but it seemed long at times. We watched the "uncorked edition" so I don't know what the difference was. Maybe there was extra footage or something. Or extra F bombs thrown in for good measure.

We spent a lot of time on the phone last weekend in the night going to morning (6 a.m.!). And now there's no question that she knows how I feel about her.

None at all.

And yes, I did find out the answer to my question too. Just not officially yet. And I'm quite happy with the answer.

There's a couple of things that she wanted to resolve before leting me know her official answer. And one of them is now done.

Just waiting for the other one now...

But even though I don't have the official answer, I'm very happy with how things are proceeding. :) If we were to ask the Magic 8 ball the question I'd say we get the response:

Outlook good.

-Kirk

A new meaning for post / A glimmer

Hi all,

Hope you're having a great weekend.

It feels like it's been quite the week. Although now that I think back, I don't really remember what's been going on.

I've decided that I'm going to be a crappy student no matter what I'm learning. Whether it's school school, guitar class, or Mandarin Chinese class. I'm still cramming to practice or study the night before.

Some things truly never change.

I'm still on my kick of unplugging in the evenings. But my computer/internet time is now consumed by random channel surfing on TV.

And talking on the phone.

So I don't know if that's any better. Whether it's sitting in front of a TV or computer, I still feel like I need to do something else.

Friday I partially slept through Corpse Bride and Must Love Dogs. It was sad - I was just too tired so I was in and out. But at least I saw the part of MLD that I missed while it was being shown on my trans-Pacific flight.

Last night I went to dinner at a Colonel's house. (no, not KFC). I accompanied K to a dinner party (I was her accessory) that was on a military base. It was kind of exciting. I got to see what life was like on a military base. Sadly we were there in the middle of a snowstorm so we didn't spend much time outside, nor did we get a chance to cruise around and check stuff out.

The whole military thing has always been quite a mystery to me. I haven't known anyone that's been in the armed forces, so I've never been able to talk to anyone about it. Although I guess I haven't been interested enough to look and find out for myself either.

(shrug)

We had a great time. It's been a long time since I've been to a true dinner party at someone's house (that wasn't a family friend or a friend of my parents). I thought it was really nice. It's one of those things that has been replaced by going out to dinner at a restaurant. I totally understand how it's more convenient (from a food / house preparation and cleanup perspective) but it's a type of gathering that shouldn't be lost - I think it would be fun to do it once in a while.

I don't know how many dinner parties I'll host in my lifetime, but I will definitely have to try it at least once.

Afterwards we spent quite some time talking. I kinda wanted to bring up my awkward question from last week, but I just couldn't.

For me, it was like there was a big pink elephant in the room.

Actually it was more like I was sitting on the elephant and it was throwing peanuts at me.

But again, the "right time" just didn't happen - I didn't want to have a tremendous buzz kill to a a very enjoyable evening. And I figured she'd give me her response in her own time, right?

When I was getting ready to leave, I had to go clear off the ice and snow that had built up on my car. As I was doing it, she came outside (with no jacket on).

And brought up my question.

We went back inside to talk - She didn't want me to think that she was blowing me off, but she wasn't ready to give me an answer yet either.

I was a little relieved to know that she was still processing her response and was going to get closure either way. I just let her know that I was totally ok with it and told her to take all the time that she needed. After all, I want her to be sure, right?

Until then, life goes on...

-Kirk