The holidays have been more enjoyable this year than in past years. Don’t get me wrong, most holidays are enjoyable. I love my family, for the most part. We get along really well – we all have similar political views, are all comparable intelligence wise, and enjoy giving one another a hard time. With my niece not here and my sister’s ex-husband missing for the first time in 10 years, it’s just the original 5 of us. The 5 of us mesh so well together. But, we only mesh well together for a certain period of time. I saw the first crack of snappiness come out this morning when my dad chewed me out for throwing food scraps away rather than saving them for the cats. Ha, my sister just snapped at my dad because he’s nagging her about looking at her camera even though she’s helping my mom with something. But a little snap here and there is ever as far as it goes – we aren’t a fighting family. Nonetheless, it’s probably a good thing we’re leaving tomorrow!
I would probably stay here a little longer, except I’m heading up to WI to meet a guy. It’s the guy my niece set me up with. With the exception of his three tattoos and plans for more, he sounds pretty darn perfect. Our views and opinions line up on everything that’s really important to us (mostly religion and politics, lol). He’s all about helping people and creating change in society which is something that’s huge in my life also. Personality wise, the only reservation I have is that he may not be funny enough for me. I get the impression he’s a little dry. It’s not that I want to be with a comedian (that would actually be annoying, I think) but laughter is so important to me and in my opinion, to a relationship as a whole. If we don’t laugh a lot when we’re together, we’ve got no chance. Then there’s the distance thing. He lives almost 6 hours away. In a way I’m actually looking forward to it a little – I don’t mind driving up there over school breaks so for the most part I get to keep living my life the way I am but will still have “someone”. But, I know that’s not practical for the long-term. I shouldn’t worry about all that yet though considering we haven’t even met!
Of course, to my knowledge he’s vanilla so that’s something to deal with too! But, he’s leaps and bounds above the trash I usually meet online so I figure I should give him a chance anyway. Wish me luck!
