When times are good (aka the economy isn’t in the toilet) TH’s company sends employees and significant others to an event called “the offsite”. This year? I didn’t go anywhere. Last year though? We were put on a plane to Mexico for several days of mingling and frolicking. One night we slipped away after the [...]

If meeting my parents and visiting my home made the list of significant events I think it only fitting that meeting his parents and seeing his home was included as well. Except he sent me to Europe all by myself to try to make a good impression on (and communicate with his Polish speaking) family. [...]

Several months of monthly visits passed and I was starting to get a bit impatient. I wanted to know where things were going and how quickly they were going to get there. The reason a brief visit on a random weekend in March made my list of significant events? This was the weekend That Boyfriend [...]

After That Boyfriend dropped me off in Washington we didn’t see each other for about 3 months, and only saw each other once a month or so after that for two or 3 days at a time, so our time together felt precious and we didn’t spend a moment apart from each other (and tended [...]

Several wonderful months passed with the two of us exploring our new relationship and trying to settle into our new roles as boyfriend and girlfriend. He got used to the idea that we were going to be holding hands and kissing *gasp* in public sometimes, and I got used to the idea that we didn’t [...]