colector: [JournalWriting] Lori

thanks for the explanation. I enjoyed reading it all and reminded me
of a few things that happened between Aidan and I. We didn't meet
through work because I have never broken the rule of going out with
someone from work. I was on vacation in New York and we met in a
park :) I was divorced in the summer of 2004 myself from a fellow who
had mental problems/depressive type who needed a mother rather than a
wife! I wasn't a social butterfly myself in terms of meeting men. I
didn't and don't go out seeking male companions. (Well I don't need
to now right I'm engaged...)

I remember Aidan letting me know before I left New York to come back
home that I should think about relocating to New York because we had
been talking at one point about the weather in WA not being to my
liking since I am from California. About a month after I returned
back here he showed up on my doorstep. It was a surprise and he
stayed with me at my apartment for a few weeks while he found a place
in the city and we lived apart for about 6-7 months when he asked me
to live with him. It took me a few months before I decided it was a
fine idea since our relationship has kept progressing since we met in
New York back in the summer of 2006. I don't put much faith in
astrology but I am a Cancer/Leo cusp and he is a Leo. (Our birthday
is pretty close together. 22nd of July me, 6th of August him) I have
never gotten along romantically with men born in December (yeah damn
Sagittarius/Capricorns) or June so maybe there is something to the
astrology bit. My life lesson is never involve myself with men who
have issues such as depression, arrogance etc...

I applaud your effort to drop your extra weight figuratively and
literally. It seems like leaving a job you disliked and relocating
for a much better working situation improved your outlook and started
bringing more positivity into your life. I noticed sometimes that
last 5-10 pounds is the hardest to lose seriously. It takes changing
tactics and fooling your body a little! Well it works for me when I
was trying to lose my winter weight every year.

This will be my second marriage in my view since my first marriage
wasn't a marriage. It was annulled so basically I don't count it
anymore as a marriage! If you 2 can make it work and you dig each
other then kudos and more power to you I say. Sometimes the right
person is under our radar all the time and we just didn't know it/see
it. I surely didn't get it for a few weeks after I met Aidan that we
could or would be together. It wasn't on my radar at that point. It
was more on Aidan's radar. At first I thought he was just being
exceptionally charming and now I realize he is who he is as he comes
across to me. (He's from France but has lived here since 1991-ish.)
He is definitely more extroverted than I am and I realize I have
always liked more extroverted men since I am introverted.

Its nice to feel as giddy as a schoolgirl I think even though it has
me off balance at times. We've known one another for a year and a
half now and I still feel a bit shy at points with him and he knows
this and is understanding. We write to each other in a shared journal
a lot so he gets me more than if I just look at him funny and try to
explain it all verbally. Basically I am learning and figuring out I
am not as emotionally shut off as I thought I was. I am glad things
are going well so far for you and hopefully things work out as you
want them to.

Katiya