[quote]Chushin wrote:
[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
For the record, I’m so damned crazy about Hockey I can hardly manage myself. Magazine Club is tired of listening to me gush about him and my best friend threatens to avoid me if I don’t stop being so obnoxiously happy.[/quote]
Well, congrats then.
How long has it been?
Seems you done good!
How about a sample gush?[/quote]
Be patient! I was beginning my gush, but it was late and it’s hard to narrow it all down. So I decided to think about it as I went to sleep.
In answer to your first question, our first date was December 7th. First chaste kiss wasn’t until New Year’s Eve! So not long, but we’re definitely a couple now.
It just keeps getting better and better - I never knew things could be this nice. I don’t know that I say very much specific stuff at magazine club because there are a couple of single women there who don’t want to be. Hockey caught their attention at the first meeting with the two dozen tulips and two dozen roses, which I’d divided into four (five?) vases. Flowers were everywhere. So they’ll ask if I’m still seeing him and how it’s going and I say something like “It’s perfect; I like him so much” and answer any questions, but I think it’s my non-verbals. Because I like him so much! My best friend gets more, but she’s still insisting that I’m “doing that thing you do,” seeing only the good. I disagree. I’m alert to negatives. Have I mentioned his malapropisms and mispronunciations? I question mild dyslexia because he reads a great deal and has a strong vocabulary, but seems weak in letter-relationship awareness or something.
But that’s not gushing. . .let’s see. . .I like his integrity and calm. From what I can tell his inside perfectly matches his outside - he’s structurally sound. He buys American when he can, but without being a weird, insular bigot. When a business fails to meet expectations, he simply stops doing business. No giant flap, just a quiet decision. He doesn’t hesitate to express negative stuff, but does it politely and intelligently.
He’s patient and frugal. He seems to have a list of things he’d like to buy used and keeps an eye out for them. He’s looking for a tractor (he has 150 acres and is improving it himself), which he’ll buy used, use, and then sell to recoup the investment. He bought a canoe new last week after looking for one for a couple of years. He decided that saving $1500 on a 20 year old canoe wasn’t a good enough deal to continue waiting to replace his old one (bought used, lasted him 20 years). I admire that. On the other hand, he’s not cheap at all.
He continues to make me laugh. I just like being around him. He’s interesting to talk to and knowledgeable about all sorts of things I’m not. Any time we disagree (e.g. does popped popcorn have fiber) we grab our phones and check to see who’s right. We’re running about 50/50.
The physical stuff. . .ORION I HAVE A REPORT FROM THE FIELD RE: NICE GUYS. . .also keeps getting better and better. He’s becoming more aggressive as we move forward, which I like. In fact I now see him as being extremely aggressive, but quietly and confidently so rather than the more combative aggression I was used to with Tim and my ex-husband. Or maybe aggressive isn’t the right word for Hockey, I’m not sure. On the other hand, he likes aggressive sports played aggressively, so maybe it is. Anyway, sex is going from satisfying to breathless.
I like him so much. I’m trying not to be fearful that nothing is really this good and worried about shoes dropping, and mostly succeeding.