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Oh my god, this month will technically be the two-year mark for me and the Nathan. HOW COOL IS THAT? :D:D:D:D
I say "technically" because I'm never entirely sure when I should start counting from. We first met on the 23rd*, but I think it took another week or so of hanging out before I figured out that we were dating, and it was another two or three weeks after that before I felt comfortable and secure enough to think of what we had as a "relationship".. I'm not really sure what the timeline was for him, but I think it was approximately the same? The end of March seems to be when we started referring to each other as "boyfriend" or "girlfriend", so...I don't know. We ended up being solid, so the details don't really matter.
I have to say, I think that my lj entries from around that time are absolutely hilarious. They're all, "Old!Kathleen was introverted! New!Kathleen will be social! SOCIAL!" and "I have never really dated before, so now would be a good time to try such a thing!" and "Fuck long-term relationships, none of those for me!" It's all cute and sassy and so very, very out-of-character for me, and it's even more funny in hindsight when you look at how quickly I went from, "Whee, dating is fun!" to "OH GOD DATING IS HARD WHY AM I DOING THIS?!" New!Kathleen lasted for dates with all of two people, at which point I threw in the towel on being a social butterfly. That shit is hard.
Luckily, Nate was one of the two people I actually decided to go out to coffee with, and there's not a day that goes by where I'm not gleefully happy that I met him. You know how in Elf, where Buddy runs in all, "I'm in love, I'm in love, and I don't care who knows it!!!!" That's how I feel all the time when it comes to my boyfriend. And I know that this makes me sound like a total dork (probably because I used an Elf quote to illustrate my point, but whatever, I love that movie), but...I don't care. He's the one who brought up the zombie apocalypse first in our early conversations, so that means we're totally meant to be.
* I know this only because I got curious and went backtracking through my old entries. HOO BOY. The me of two years ago was quite the neurotic spazzball, let me tell you! And given that I'm still a neurotic spazzball, this is saying something.
I say "technically" because I'm never entirely sure when I should start counting from. We first met on the 23rd*, but I think it took another week or so of hanging out before I figured out that we were dating, and it was another two or three weeks after that before I felt comfortable and secure enough to think of what we had as a "relationship".. I'm not really sure what the timeline was for him, but I think it was approximately the same? The end of March seems to be when we started referring to each other as "boyfriend" or "girlfriend", so...I don't know. We ended up being solid, so the details don't really matter.
I have to say, I think that my lj entries from around that time are absolutely hilarious. They're all, "Old!Kathleen was introverted! New!Kathleen will be social! SOCIAL!" and "I have never really dated before, so now would be a good time to try such a thing!" and "Fuck long-term relationships, none of those for me!" It's all cute and sassy and so very, very out-of-character for me, and it's even more funny in hindsight when you look at how quickly I went from, "Whee, dating is fun!" to "OH GOD DATING IS HARD WHY AM I DOING THIS?!" New!Kathleen lasted for dates with all of two people, at which point I threw in the towel on being a social butterfly. That shit is hard.
Luckily, Nate was one of the two people I actually decided to go out to coffee with, and there's not a day that goes by where I'm not gleefully happy that I met him. You know how in Elf, where Buddy runs in all, "I'm in love, I'm in love, and I don't care who knows it!!!!" That's how I feel all the time when it comes to my boyfriend. And I know that this makes me sound like a total dork (probably because I used an Elf quote to illustrate my point, but whatever, I love that movie), but...I don't care. He's the one who brought up the zombie apocalypse first in our early conversations, so that means we're totally meant to be.
* I know this only because I got curious and went backtracking through my old entries. HOO BOY. The me of two years ago was quite the neurotic spazzball, let me tell you! And given that I'm still a neurotic spazzball, this is saying something.