On Dating
I'm cool with this dating again thing. Don't get me wrong - I never thought I wouldn't be cool with the dating thing (those PTSD years are SOO over). I just didn't think things would pop up like this and then I'd be dating again. It has been sudden, but not too sudden - it's not like last year around this time when ex and I started dating - and we didn't just start dating: we dove head first into the commitment pool. Overnight we became Carlaandex. And then we were Carlaandex until the day we broke up and then I became Carla again and he went back to being ex. I like things this way - the new way. I am still Carla, but I happen to be dating Boy. We didn't suddenly become Carlaandboy. We are Carla And Boy. Two Separate People Who Happen To Be Dating (because I think that's the official term we gave this). So far (you know, these ever-so-important first three days) I like this. And he did my dishes Monday - without being asked - which could ne...