Where Am I

Last two years have been interesting, but to sum it up:

Started working in the pharmacy, am now a certified pharmacy tech. I also do side-work at home as an account manager/social media consultant for a company that operates with LinkedIn. Morgan and I split a year ago. I’ve spent this past year getting reacquainted with myself and it’s been an up-and-down process. I have a new guy in my life named Steven and he’s been indescribable. Still in Centralia, Washington but the possibilities of me moving down to California are increasing week by week (yeah it’s another LDR I’ll get to it in a bit). I’ve been traveling a fair amount this year - went to PAX East in Boston, The International 6 in Seattle, and taken a couple of trips down to California the past few months. I’m also trying to get back to the gym and work out, and all of this combined has left me feeling very busy.

I haven’t been on the AZ forums in ages. I don’t even know if I’m still modded on there. I think I’ve just grown past it, but it’s nice to keep tabs on those I have added on Facebook and Discord and Twitter. 

I hope everyone’s been doing well!

I say I’ve been feeling busy but a lot of it is poor time management on my part. Coming back from my trip to see Steven has left me incredibly motivated, though. My last relationship was not built on healthy grounds, and it was good that it ended. Steven has been an incredibly calm, gentle person. His demeanor is typically at odds with mine - while I am more emotional, he is more impassive and it’s honestly what I need. He is always able to help me de-stress and get back to what I need to do. His ability to read me is ridiculously uncanny tbh.

I wasn’t sure I wanted to get into another long-distance relationship, but in my time alone there was no one that grabbed my interests like he did. It wasn’t until we met up at TI6 that we talked about it (and by “talked about it” I mean I got mega drunk and may have confessed my feelings - which he already knew about - and made my move HEH). When thinking about it, I figured at least California is not across the ocean, and I’m in a position where I can be more in control of how often I see him. It’s been working out well so far - we’ve seen each other three times in the past four months alone. I probably won’t go out again until February because I can’t take so much time off work so often, but I plan on visiting for over a week next time.

I just want this relationship to progress naturally and see where things go, but I have to admit I’ve never felt this utterly content and happy in any relationship before.

I signed up for a gym nearby again and I’ve been going a couple of times a week, but not super committed. Gonna change that and get in shape!

His two-day visit went way better than I thought! Seeing him was of course the best thing ever, but I was worried Centralia would be super boring and we'd have a lot of moments where we weren't doing anything since I didn't have much planned (whoops). We walked around for a bit after getting him to my house, showing him all four blocks of ~*~downtown Centralia~*~. Eventually my complaining about food paid off and we stopped at the local Irish pub, which happened to be showing the last quarter of the Seahawks game (they were winning, everyone in the pub was cheering, it was awesome). After that we picked up some drinks and then came home and spent a bunch of time together talking and dorking off.

Day two was more eventful since I had already planned on us going to the movies (I wasn't 100% unprepared). We were gonna see Big Hero 6 BUT THEN the internet told us that the little tiny one-screen theatre in the hotel by my house was showing Guardians of the Galaxy, so we nixed Big Hero 6 because 1) proximity, and 2) Guardians of the Galaxy (which I had not seen yet - it was great, everyone should go see it now).

I am still not over that theatre, it was soooo cool! Couches and comfy chairs with side-tables so you could order food and have it brought to you in the theatre~ Reminded me of The Loop in STL, which still ranks up there in my Top 3 Favorite Places My Butt Has Lived.

After that we went home and spent the rest of the night drinking and chatting. We had gone shopping before the movies, so I now have a huge comfy comforter on my bed that Morgan was much happier with (my blankets are made for only one person :v ). He bought Super Smash Bros. 3DS so I watched him play for a bit, and overall it was really great.

My two roommates like him, which is nice. Brenden conveniently went to a friend's house for the time Morgan was here - pretty sure he was trying to avoid Morgan hm hm. (My roommates have all played with Morgan in one game or another so they're all acquainted with him.)

I miss him, but we talk for a couple of hours on Skype every night. I'm so stoked, only one week to go before I'm up in Everett!! I'm not going to want that week to end. I'm gonna be a wreck afterwards - but it's going to be a fantastic time!