Month: July 2009

  • Good Luck

    Life has been better than ever.  I am living with a friend from school for the rest of the summer, staying here in Ann Arbor.  It’s fantastic, rent is cheap and utilities are all paid for, the room already had plenty of furniture from the previous tenant and it’s a great location.  The house itself is very nice and spacious, albeit dirty since my friend doesnt like to clean up, but at least I keep my living areas clean.  Once I got settled in I started applying for jobs, which didnt take too long since the local Little Caesars saw that I already had previous work experience there so they set up an interview with me on the spot.  I’m going in for a second interview on Monday, but I’m 100% certain that I already have a job since they’ve already got me scheduled for training on Wednesday, which is when I start making the bling.  I’m scraping the bottle of the barrel right now, I need moneys.

    Living with Colin has been great.  He’s a really nice guy and doesnt seem at all bothered by the fact that I havent payed rent yet, I make up for it by cleaning up around the house whenever I can (hard to make progress when a new mess always replaces the old mess, but I am NOT complaining).  It’s really cool living with him though, he vapes me down all the time and doesnt expect me to pay for it, and he plays Halo all of the time and I join in every once in a while.  It’s done good things for my social life as well, since Colin has alot of friends and I can meet alot of people that way purely due to the fact that I live in the house.

    We had a funny exchange the other day.  I had gotten back from my interview at Little Caesars, it was dark when I unlocked the back door to the kitchen and walked in and turned on the lights.  There was a moped parked there.  I went to the living room and was like “Colin, why is there a moped just chillin in the kitchen?” to which he replied “Eh, these things happen sometimes”.

    On Friday morning I helped move a few pieces of furniture for Lia’s dad since he’s moving into a new apartment.  They didnt want to have to rent a truck, and since I have mine with me it was no problem at all for me to help.  Easy as pie, and he gave Lia some money for us to grab some lunch, which is good because I’m broke.  We went to Espresso Royale and ordered Jasmine tea; she got vegan zuchini bread while I got banana bread.  I wasn’t keeping track of time, but we had a great time enjoying each others’ company and just chatting about stuff that was important to us.  Gay rights, gender identity, breaking down stereotypes, music that we enjoyed, books that we liked reading.  I see eye-to-eye with her on so many topics.  I dropped her off while I finished setting up my room and moving stuff into storage.  Before I left, I asked Colin if I could borrow some money, he asked what it was for and I let him know that I was going on a date.  He said “Good luck”, to which I replied “It’s not luck”.  Later on that night I picked Lia up to go out on a date.

    She looked drop-dead gorgeous in her outfit, she did her hair and wore a very sexy dress shirt.  We went to eat at Earthen Jar, a vegan-friendly restaurant since she’s vegan.  Food was great as expected, I need to work on my eating habits, I’m a sloppy eater.  Afterwards we wandered around downtown Ann Arbor, if I remember correctly the next thing that we did was go to Pangea Piercing studios, where she got her ears re-pierced with a very lovely pair of earrings.  I held her hand incase she needed something to squeeze onto, which she didnt need to do because the piercer informed us that tensing up would cause it to hurt more.  Before he went through with the operation, I wished Lia “Good luck”, to which he responded “There is no luck involved.”  We’ve decided that we’ll make another date there when they check on how her ears are adapting to the new piercings, and on that day I’ll get my lip pierced.  It was sorta funny because the owner of the studio was pissed off that day because apparently clove cigarettes were banned in all public establishments, the entire time we were there he was ranting and raving to whoever would listen.  This guy went on and on and just would not stop.  Definately a smart guy, there’s just only so much listening I can take though.

    Afterwards we walked around downtown Ann Arbor a little bit more and looked at a few art galleries and stopped by a bookstore where we looked through all of the books and chatted more.  We came up with another date idea in which we go to the local library and recommend a book for each other to read.  It’s worth noting that while we were there I recommended that she flip through the simple yet classic children’s book “The Missing Piece” by Shel Silverstein.  If you havent read that book (and it’s sequel), you most definately should.  There was a small cafe in the upstairs of the bookstore and we shared a vegan ding-dong, which was absolutely delicious and much better than a regular Hostess ding-dong.  We got lost in conversation a bit more and when we were finished with our dessert I asked Lia if she wanted to be my “Missing Piece”, to which she accepted.

    I had spent the last of my money on the ding-dong, but I made the suggestion that we go dancing at Necto.  Friday nights at Necto are gay pride nights, which means that a majority of the people dancing are gay, but since Lia and I were already a couple at that point and since we both love gay pride we both were excited to go dancing that night and it wouldnt have felt awkward at all.  Unfortunately neither of us had enough money for the both of us to get in, haha.  We ended up just going back to my house.

    We went up to my room and I showed her a computer game, but that’s irrelevant.  We sat down on my loveseat and spent an undeterminable amount of time kissing and cuddling.  Neither of us have had an actual relationship up to that point.  I felt what love was like for the first time, I realize now that any and all attractions that I felt towards women up until that point in my life had only been lust.  Nothing could compare to what I felt right then and there, it felt like universal peace.  Nothing else mattered.  She told me how glad she was that Necto didnt let us in and that we did this instead.  I agreed and we laughed about the absurd entrance fees and clothing requirements, but then we decided that we would try to go again on Monday night.

    I love Lia, and I wont let anything bad ever happen to her.  She is so special to me, one-of-a-kind.  She doesnt have absurd relationship requirements, she and I both agree that height and skin color requirements are immature and shouldnt be relevant whatsoever.  She appreciates the little things that I do for her, like when I hold open doors and my attempts at being a gentleman.  And as evidenced, she understands that I’m short on cash at the moment, and that doesnt matter to her.  Our relationship happened so naturally that there was no effort involved, I now realize what having a girlfriend and being in love is like.

    Today, I’m getting a few friends together to have a cookout at my place.  I’m about to go pick up some vegan hamburgers to grill for my girlfriend.  The fact that Lia will be there is better than any 4th-of-July fireworks that money can buy.