Well, cool, proceed organically!

Steve's here 3 to 4 nights a week. He has two drawers.

The nights that he's not here? I enjoy the hell out of them. He's a channel surfer, and will watch tv out of boredom - without ever settling on one program. Drives me up a wall, and I usually just go hang out anywhere but the room he's in. When he's not here, the tv is off except for dvd or baseball watching (with the very occasional Keith/Rachel/Colbert/Stewart).

I am in no rush to live with another human.

ETA: Contrary to how the above sounded, I do like cooking together and sharing meals, and hanging out together in general. It's just when the tv is turned on (sometimes as soon as he walks in!) that I sigh. Loudly.

Hee! I shall! He told me "You can make whatever changes you want."

I feel more secure and serene now.

Thanks for the input, y'all. I know I can always depend on your feedback.

And I agree - I'm loving the headspace I'm in. I truly never thought I would be here. I I feel kinda like a cheeseball self-help chick flick - "When I gave up, it all happened for me!! OMFG!!"

Ick.

feel kinda like a cheeseball self-help chick flick

Hee! I love this beyond all reason. Yay, Erin!

Java, the first three months, it was a real adjustment. I've lived by myself for 16 years, and I'm hugely used to solitude. But now we're past needing to be "on" for each other and he does his tv, computer, music thing and I do mine.

I'm still adjusting to some stuff, though. But I'm doing it more easily and quickly than I thought I would, frankly.

I've been with Steve for 2.5 years. We are definitely past the stage of needing to be "on".

I still want the television off. Or at the very least, I want it to stay on one channel for more than 3 minutes.

Sounds good Erin! Wow!

Went and had yummy ham/egg/chese (or, to sound fancy, serrano ham, egg, and gruyere) crepe for breakfast, after a very nice wakeup of talking to a couple friends on the phone for a while. I'm not usually much of a phone person, but hey, if I can't have pleasant morning slow wakeup conversation in person, it works. :) Granted, one was mostly a rant from a friend about her ex, and me chiming in about her ex and her ex's best friend who is my ex, but still. :)

And tonight, karaoke! Last night ended up, after dancing, with a couple friends at the Crypt (a leather store) and though they were the ones who texted me while they were browsing somehow *I* ended up being the one who spent $80...(I got a hat, and a tie, and a riding crop, and an adorable little collar (it looks like someone cut the collar off a shirt. Except it's leather. And one side is black and the other white. It came with cuffs, too, but somehow those make it look like I'm trying to be in a bizarro superhero costume.)

sexy!

Sounds fab, meara! And happy, happy Birthday!

We August Virgos-- we're hot. Mostly because, you know... August. But you're just plain hawt!

Happy Birthday, meara!

And I'm glad Lily's ok, erikaj.