The Return of Surfer-Dude???

I am a woman that believes in grand gestures.

Having said that, I don't believe that I had ever experienced a grand gesture or really even believed that I would in my lifetime. There had been many opportunities for grand gestures. Times when I could have been persuaded by even the smallest of them. But it never happened.

Until now...when I got something substantially larger than a small grand gesture. It was truly grand.

Surfer-Dude is one of the most verbally un-emotional creatures I think I have ever come across. Any "serious" relationship talk of any kind sends him screaming in the opposite direction.

Thankfully I do boyspeak!
I'm able to tackle most relationships in lingo that's easy for him to swallow and relate to. I use crass language and say things like "but shit, ya know, it's cool. we can do whatever you want" and then I just gently nudge in the direction that I want him to go. That way, there's no pressure to find the words to fix something, but he gets the general idea of what I want and need.

I use pet names that are non-threatening. I call him "Buttface" much more regularly than I call him "babe" and tell him I'm going to kick him (sweetly) instead of telling him how happy he makes me.
Foreplay rarely includes roses and candlelight and much more often includes teasing and wrestling.
Don't get me wrong. For the most part, I actually prefer all of this. I'm not a gushy kind of girl. I'm a little uncomfortable with the modern idea of "romance" with all of its frillyness and ooze.

Because of my boyspeak abilities, Surfer-Dude was the first to drop the "I love you" bomb. And that man has the ability to hold so much love in his eyes it hurts me to look at him. I rarely need to hear it come out of his mouth. But sometimes a girl just needs some verbal affirmation.

Especially when there are problems in the relationship and all he can seem to point out are the negatives. The reasons that we shouldn't be together and the things that we should change about ourselves.
Especially when we're thousands of miles apart and technically broken up.
Especially since we are friends first and lovers second and there needs to be a distinction between the two.

So we tried the friend thing for 6 months. Most of the time it was fine. I think that Surfer-Dude is an amazing person. He's complex and rough around the edges and I can't help but totally and absolutely believe in him and appreciate him for everything that he is.

But sometimes it wasn't fine. I would get off the phone with him and feel horrible. I'd feel angry and empty and frustrated.
So one evening after one particularly frustrating phone conversation, I called him back. I was mad. I was prepared to end any friendship we had in order to get some closure.

Me: What the hell are we doing? We talk all the time and you want to come visit but you say you wont come if i'm seeing someone else. But you say you don't want to be with me. WHAT THE FUCK??!! Are you still in love with me or not?

Then the most amazing thing happened. Surfer-Dude's shell cracked. Then it completely broke open. He told me that he's still in love with me. That I'm one of a kind. That he doesn't care if I change anything about myself, that he wants me no matter what. He told me that he gave me up because he wanted me to follow my dreams and didn't want to hold me back. He told me how beautiful he thinks I am and how much he loved being with me.

With a shaky voice dropped to almost a whisper he told me everything that I needed to hear from him. Everything that I was positive I would never hear. Everything I had doubted was washed away in the most intense emotionally outpouring that I have ever been a part of.

Of course this was riddled with a lot of stuttering and extra words thrown in. But it wouldn't have been the same if it were cut and dry. It wasn't the words so much as the attitude behind it all. It was like hearing him say "I love you" for the first time all over again. So frightened and vulnerable and so human.
It also wasn't helped by me bawling throughout the whole thing.

So i don't know where this leaves Surfer-Dude and I. He's planning a visit. And possibly a move. Even though the gesture is done, I will need a follow through in order to stay sane about this whole thing.

But I love him. And I'm happy. All of the emotion and happiness that I have been suppressing for 6 months just keeps bubbling up until I feel overwhelmed with hope.

Thank you, Surfer-Dude for making me feel like a fairy-tale princess if only for a few moments.

A Texting World

I really dislike text messaging for conversations. It's fine for "hey what's up" or "are you busy" but not for long, involved conversations. Especially when it involves issues that need to be worked out.


Text Problem #1

Yesterday afternoon I started recieving texts from a number I wasn't familiar with. After several "who is this" texts, the person tells me. It's my asshole ex-boyfriend from oh-so long ago.

Mr. Drobb and I started dating because of my friend Mr. Radio Personality. Mr. RP and I were close friends in high school. He was a few years ahead of me in school and ended up moving to Northern California to go to college. I kept in touch and somehow eventually started a ridiculous long-distance relationship with his dorm roommate, Mr. Drobb. After a few months, my new long-distance fling decided to come visit me on his 21st birthday. I was 16 and fairly smitten, but obviously an idiot. We had fun, but I soon found out that he was kind of a jerk. My family didn't really like him and he treated me like crap. He went back to California and I broke up with him. He didn't like that and moved up to Alaska to try and win me back.
Being the sucker that I am sometimes I gave him a second chance. I wasn't into it and ended it about a month after he moved to town.
Two years ago I happened to run into him at the Emergency room when I took a friend who had busted his elbow in during the middle of the night. We talked and caught up for awhile, I found out he had gotten married, and everything was fairly cordial. He was flirty, but I didn't take offense at the time.

So for the past 24 hours he has been bugging me through the world of text messages. He started texting innapropriately fairly quickly. Asking me who I was seeing and telling me how much he likes large breasts and can't get enough of them and can't we be friends.

I told him no, we can't be friends. He kept texting.
I told him to leave me alone.
I told him that now I remember why i broke up with him in the first place.
Yet he still texts.
Why don't some men understand NO!!!!????

Here's my note to Mr. Drobb:

I don't care if you're bored in your marriage. I don't care that you now hate Juneau and have decided to move back to California. I don't care where your life is headed. I don't care that you hate the snow and are working at the hospital. I don't care that you like large breasts. I don't care that you're thinking about me.
Stop it.
Stop it.
Stop it.

Leave the past in the past and leave me the hell alone.
And no, i'm not going to take the time to text all of that.
I'm just going to ignore you until you stop.

Texting Problem #2

So I had this band. And in this band I had a bassist. This bassist happens to particularly know how to get on my nerves. We haven't hung out or seen each other in a long time. I've been back in town and busy and blah blah blah
My excuses are not the point of this story.

He likes to text. He's got kids in their late teens and twenties and it just happens to be a way he likes to communicate.
So he decides to take out all of his frustration on me in text message land because of something he's heard from someone else about something that I said.
I'm not good at getting my point across in text. I have a weird sense of humor that seems not to translate well to text form.
So I call him some names, but not really. I just say something to the effect of "don't act like a dick" because I learned that if you say don't act like something then you're actually not calling them that thing.
Then he calls me some names. And doesn't really sugarcoat his.

And I want to break my phone.


So here's my note to Bassist Man:

Don't text me about heresay.
Don't text me telling me to have a great life and that you wish me the best when what you really want to say is "i'm unhappy with you and how things have been going"
Don't call me names in print.... I cannot be faulted if I hold it against you at a later date.

Oh, and by the way. I am not a diva.

A little workday math

I love my job.



Ok before I go into my day, let me preface it by saying that my job is not all fun and sunshine. Working in the social service industry can be exhausting and all-consuming at times but I am lucky. I have great clients and great co-workers.



I love Mondays because Miss MD and Mr RT and I get to hang out all day. We catch up on all of the latest gossip within and without work and have ridiculous conversations with topics such as:



How many women do you think Brett Michaels has actually slept with?



Is it possible to sleep with thousands of people in a lifetime?



If you can become a virtuoso at anything after 10,000 hours of practice, how long will it take to become a master at sex?



Although it's pretty impossible to find the answer to the first question we did some math and did figure out the last two.



If you live to be 84 years old, lose your virginity at 14 and have sex every day for the rest of your life (accounting for leap years) you can have sex with 25,567 people in a lifetime.

If you have sex an hour a day (or 7 hours a week) you can become a sexual virtuoso in as little as 27 years. So, considering again that you lose your virginity at 14, you can become a master by the age of 41.

No wonder I like older men.

And this kind of answers the first question as well. Not about the number of women Brett Michaels has slept with but, considering he is 45 years old and has probably slept with A LOT of women, he's most likely very amazing in the sack.

I just can't get past the bandana/hairpiece. Sorry Brett