Forgot to mention...a blast from the past just fb-d me. He's the guy...the guy I compare all my new relationships with. He's the one that was intense from the very first time we met. He was super fun when I had never experienced a super fun relationship. The problem as I remember was that he was just coming out of a long term relationship and so was I. The timing was just bad between us and neither could think of anything serious, only wanting fun flinging things. At first he emailed about 3+ months or so, and later even longer. The last time I heard from him was at least a year. I emailed back, that's the polite thing, right?

Side Observation

I parked my car and noticed my carport neighbor was fixing his car. That's his thing, he is constantly fixing and selling cars. I went over to say hi, because I'm trying to be friendly and get to know him although it's been like 5 years and I don't even know his name. I go over, he's under the hood, say hello, he points over to a girl sitting next to him and says "that's shauna". I say hi, and think, good... an opportunity to find out about him and maybe his name. I reintroduce myself and linger. And the girl says "I'm Matt's fiancé". Real stern and I think..."wow" was she trying to stake her claim on him? Did she think I was trying to steal him. Are there women who really think and operate that way? I mean, I don't even know his name, and I really think I should know it after all these years! Well, I learned his name! finally. I can say hi to him. I wonder if he's the neighbor that lives below me, like I've suspected, the one who had the very violent turbulent past, but has been good for the past 3 years.

He knows I have this blog, but I haven't quite been able to share the url with him. He said we could write an entry together...but that wouldn't be the same, right?

I invited him to a hiking trip I had planned with friends. The hiking trip was a weekend trip...drove up to Bishop Fri night, hiked Sat and drove back Sun. Was an extremely tiring trip. I think he and I did well together. There were a couple bumps, but I think that's normal. Like he didn't have a backpack even though I told him we'd be out all day. He only brought hiking shoes and work shoes because he came straight from work, but no others. Before the hike, he was super confident about it, but the hike ended up to be a challenge because of the altitude.

For My Birthday

For my birthday, he bought be a mouse and mp3 player. He later said I should ask what my friends thought of a gift that was logical, functional and practical or something like that.