Have you ever had something happen to you without expecting it to happen? Let me try to rephrase that. Have you ever had something happen to you that you didn’t think would ever happen to you? I’ll give you a couple of examples.

Last week, I was going out to apply for jobs. I had to find my lip gloss and I just couldn’t find it.¹ I went to look into one of my many purses and I found a half eaten Payday bar, a ticket stub from a Yankees game from like 2 years ago, and a dollar.

Yes, a dollar. I don’t even know where it came from, but seeing as I was scraping for money, this was just nice to find. Win.

Now for the second (even deeper) example.

As you know, I’ve been playing PWI for over a year. It’s become a form of mental health therapy for me. Well, you meet all kinds of people from all over. I’ve made great friends and even if we never meet in person, I value all of my friends, no matter where I meet them. And that brings me to…

Back in this post, I introduced you to someone who managed to, since then, break through the cynical part of me. Keep in mind that I didn’t expect to meet anyone romantically through playing this game, and…

didn’t expect it to happen.

What is it? It’s what every girl dreams of. Well, every girl that is girly enough to want it. It’s what I’ve always dreamed of. It’s what I never expected to happen to me. It’s what I never expected to happen to me with someone who lives farther away than we’d wish.

What is this it?

He proposed. Cautiously, but he did it.

What makes this relationship extra special isn’t where we met (it’s a pretty strange story to tell), but it’s his first relationship, and it’s my longest. We’ve been together for a year, and that’s a record…for the both of us. We’re really excited for the day he visits (sometime within the month most likely).

It’s as if I need to pinch, slap, punch, kick, and stab myself to make myself wake up. How the hell did this happen to me? Either way, it’s win.

This is my fail attempt on a real entry…I just ran out of gas in the middle. But it’s something, right?

Tags: love, romance

Some days I wish he can come visit New York one of these days. I’m the worst tour guide, but I can show him some things. You know, the big attractions. Then the smaller things, like two rats fighting for chicken bones¹ and shit.

Then at night…well, do you really want to know what happens at night? But it’d be nice to cuddle up to something warm for once. *blushes*

Well, we just settle with talking to each other every day…

As a follow-up to this entry, I decided to put our lovable redheaded stick figure in the line of fire to test the “stress easing” theory. Here are the findings (warning: pretty large image on click).

Poor thing. But I can safely say that the stress-easing effect that kissing does have (according to these folks) does make sense. I mean, how else would I go from having one of those day-long anxiety attacks to being calmer when I got kissed?

Yeah, so it did come two days late, but better two days late than 5 years late, I say. One piece of advice to men: if you kiss a girl with glittery lipgloss and you somehow need to explain it, just tell them that you tripped and fell into some glitter. Then say that that was the best fucking kiss you’ve had in ages. I’m not going into the whole thing (if you have access to my friends only Livejournal, then most of it is there, along with who it was that gave me said stress-easing kiss, and no he didn’t get smacked), but I’m grinning from ear to ear. Could ya blame me?!

Tags: kissing, RHSF

I saw this on Yahoo.

“Chemistry look what you’ve done to me,” Donna Summer crooned in Science of Love, and so, it seems, she was right. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, a panel of scientists examined the mystery of what happens when hearts throb and lips lock. Kissing, it turns out, unleashes chemicals that ease stress hormones in both sexes and encourage bonding in men, though not so much in women. Chemicals in the saliva may be a way to assess a mate, Wendy Hill, dean of the faculty and a professor of neuroscience at Lafayette College, told a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Friday.

Source. Okay, so I know why I’m stressed now. Not enough lip locks and fucking!
Tags: kissing, lonely, v-***