« Snow Day | Main | New Blog Stats »
Five Months
December 06, 2006Five months ago I decided that it was time to let go of my irrational fear of relationships and try something new for a change.
I hadn't had a serious girlfriend for at least a year...and had given up on the dating scene a few months before July. I was focusing on my career and where I wanted to go with it instead....hoping that a girl would just fall out of the sky and into my arms at some point.
Amazingly...that's pretty much what happened.
Courtney and I have been together for five months today. That may not sound like a long time to a lot of people...but it's a huge amount for me. I've been a serial bachelor for most of my life it seems.
My longest relationship was about 18 months....that was when I was 18-19. Since then...about the longest is nine. Then six. Then a lot of pointless dating that never really materialized into what I thought they could have been.
Five months is big. We had trouble at four months....the veritable first relationship wall. It happens to just about everybody. We were both upset and not communicating well at all. We both made some changes and now things are back on the right track.
That's what you do in a relationship with someone. Besides...I'm too stubborn to just let a good thing go. I'm an Aires.
So yesterday we celebrated our "date-iversary" as she calls it. We both had to work all day today. I told Courtney that I'd cook dinner for her but I think I kinda surprised her.
The steaks were excellent (of course)...but I also got an Angel Food cake for dessert and sliced up some strawberries to go with it. That's the only way to eat Angel Food in my opinion.
The flower vase needed something to brighten up the room with, so I got a nice bouquet of orange daises and lilies.
And there was one more bit of Christmas cheer to spread around so I set up her miniature Christmas tree on the kitchen bar. I would have fully decorated it myself, but I knew that she'd have a particular way that she wanted to do that....so I waited.
I'm honestly not sure which she was more impressed with...but I know that all of it worked perfectly.
Now I have to start planning for January 6th....what will be our 6-month "date-iversary."
Posted by Jason Palmer at 12:02 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Comments
Careful....some of those pointless girls you dated may be reading your blog.
